mp BS-III compliant two-wheelers get nod for registration from Delhi's transport department By economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: 2016-03-30T03:38:17+05:30 Transport department has agreed to register new models of two-wheelers compliant with BS-III emission norms launched in the capital prior to April 1. Full Article
mp Carlyle set to buy animal health company Sequent Scientific By economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: 2020-05-08T00:02:08+05:30 Carlyle is expected to first buy around 50% stake from the promoters and their families at Rs 85-90 a share, or a 7-10% premium to the current market price, and then launch an open offer to the minority investors. Full Article
mp 8 approved labs now testing prototype samples of PPE Coveralls: Govt By economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: 2020-05-08T21:16:54+05:30 These are South India Textiles Research Association (SITRA) in Coimbatore, DRDO-INMAS in New Delhi, Heavy Vehicle Factory in Chennai, Small Arms Factory in Kanpur, Ordnance Factory in Kanpur, Ordnance Factory in Muradnagar, Ordnance Factory in Ambernath, and Metal & Steel Factory in Ishapore, West Bengal. Full Article
mp Faust I & II / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; edited and translated by Stuart Atkins ; with a new introduction by David E. Wellbery By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 06:24:28 EDT Hayden Library - PT2026.F2 A84 2014 Full Article
mp The impossible exile: Stefan Zweig at the end of the world / George Prochnik By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:08:32 EST Hayden Library - PT2653.W42 Z677 2013 Full Article
mp The complete Brecht toolkit / Stephen Unwin ; with Julian Jones By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 06:09:36 EST Hayden Library - PT2603.R397 Z89025 2014 Full Article
mp The tower: a novel / Uwe Tellkamp ; translated by Mike Mitchell By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:17:12 EDT Hayden Library - PT2682.E45 T694 2014 Full Article
mp Imperium: a fiction of the South Seas / Christian Kracht ; translated from the German by Daniel Bowles By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 06:20:33 EST Hayden Library - PT2671.R225 I5713 2015 Full Article
mp The wondrous bird's nest I / Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen ; translated & annotated by Robert L. Hiller and John C. Osborne By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 06:15:10 EDT Online Resource Full Article
mp Envisioning social justice in contemporary German culture / edited by Jill E. Twark and Axel Hildebrandt By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:10:51 EDT Hayden Library - PT405.E59 2015 Full Article
mp Literary exiles from Nazi Germany: exemplarity and the search for meaning / Johannes F. Evelein By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:10:51 EDT Hayden Library - PT170.E5 E94 2014 Full Article
mp Kafka's blues: figurations of racial blackness in the construction of an aesthetic / Mark Christian Thompson By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 06:09:33 EDT Hayden Library - PT2621.A26 Z9318 2016 Full Article
mp The last days of mankind: the complete text / Karl Kraus ; translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms ; with a glossary and index By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 06:10:28 EDT Hayden Library - PT2621.R27 L4313 2015 Full Article
mp The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: new poems, Duino elegies, sonnets to Orpheus & others / edited by John Pilling & Peter Robinson By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:13:46 EST Hayden Library - PT2635.I65 A2 2015b Full Article
mp Ein Sklavenball. Pompeji. By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 06:40:52 EDT Online Resource Full Article
mp All for nothing / Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 06:44:45 EDT Hayden Library - PT2671.E43 A7713 2018 Full Article
mp The mentor / Daniel Kehlmann ; translated by Christopher Hampton By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 07:18:21 EDT Hayden Library - PT2671.E32 M46 2017 Full Article
mp Building brain-like computers (8 Aug 2014) By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:00:00 -0400 A new class of gamma ray sources; roundup of daily news. Full Article
mp Tracking aquatic animals, cochlear implants, and a news roundup By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:00:00 -0400 Sara Iverson discusses how telemetry has transformed the study of animal behavior in aquatic ecosystems, and Monita Chatterjee discusses the impact of cochlear implants on the ability to recognize emotion in voices, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories with Sarah Crespi. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: © marinesavers.com] Full Article
mp Jumping soft bots and a news roundup By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:00:00 -0400 Nick Bartlett discusses the challenges of building a jumping soft robot and David Grimm brings online news stories about drug violence in Mexico, pollution's effect on weather, and drugging away our altruism. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: Stephen Wolfe/Flickr] Full Article
mp Artificial intelligence programs that learn concepts based on just a few examples and a daily news roundup By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:00:00 -0500 Brenden Lake discusses a new computational model that rivals the human ability to learn new concepts based on just a single example; David Grimm talks about attracting cockroaches, searching for habitable planets, and looking to street dogs to learn about domestication. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Rodrigo Basaure CC BY 2.0, via flickr] Full Article
mp Podcast: The impact of legal pot on opioid abuse, and a very early look at a fetus’s genome By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:00:00 -0400 This week, news writer Greg Miller chats with us about how the legalization of marijuana in certain U.S. states is having an impact on the nation’s opioid problem. Plus, Sarah Crespi talks to Sascha Drewlo about a new method for profiling the DNA of fetuses very early on in pregnancy. [Image: OpenRangeStock/iStockphoto/Music: Jeffrey Cook] ++ Authors: Sarah Crespi; Alexa Billow Full Article Scientific Community
mp Podcast: An 80-million-year-old dinosaur protein, sending oxygen to the moon, and competitive forecasting By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:00:00 -0500 This week, we chat about how the Earth is sending oxygen to the moon, using a GPS data set to hunt for dark matter, and retrieving 80-million year old proteins from dinosaur bones, with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Philip Tetlock joins Alexa Billow to discuss improving our ability to make judgments about the future through forecasting competitions as part of a special section on prediction in this week’s issue of Science. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Podcast: Teaching self-driving cars to read, improving bike safety with a video game, and when ‘you’ isn’t about ‘you’ By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:00:00 -0400 This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Ariana Orvell joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study of how the word “you” is used when people recount meaningful experiences. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: VisualCommunications/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Podcast: Giant virus genetics, human high-altitude adaptations, and quantifying the impact of government-funded science By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:00:00 -0400 This week, viruses as remnants of a fourth domain of life, a scan of many Tibetan genomes reveals seven new genes potentially related to high-altitude life, and doubts about dark energy with Online News Editor David Grimm. Danielle Li joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study quantifying the impact of government funding on innovation by linking patents to U.S. National Institutes of Health grants. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: artubo/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Slowly retiring chimps, tanning at the cellular level, and plumbing magma’s secrets By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:30:00 -0400 This week we have stories on why it’s taking so long for research chimps to retire, boosting melanin for a sun-free tan, and tracking a mouse trail to find liars online with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Allison Rubin about what we can learn from zircon crystals outside of a volcano about how long hot magma hangs out under a volcano. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Project Chimps; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp A jump in rates of knee arthritis, a brief history of eclipse science, and bands and beats in the atmosphere of brown dwarfs By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:00:00 -0400 This week we hear stories on a big jump in U.S. rates of knee arthritis, some science hits and misses from past eclipses, and the link between a recently discovered thousand-year-old Viking fortress and your Bluetooth earbuds with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Daniel Apai about a long-term study of brown dwarfs and what patterns in the atmospheres of these not-quite-stars, not-quite-planets can tell us. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Cargo-sorting molecular robots, humans as the ultimate fire starters, and molecular modeling with quantum computers By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:15:00 -0400 This week we hear stories on the gut microbiome’s involvement in multiple sclerosis, how wildfires start—hint: It’s almost always people—and a new record in quantum computing with Online News Editor David Grimm. Andrew Wagner talks to Lulu Qian about DNA-based robots that can carry and sort cargo. Sarah Crespi goes behind the scenes with Science’s Photography Managing Editor Bill Douthitt to learn about snapping this week’s cover photo of the world’s smallest neutrino detector. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Curtis Perry/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Randomizing the news for science, transplanting genetically engineered skin, and the ethics of experimental brain implants By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:00:00 -0500 This week we hear stories on what to do with experimental brain implants after a study is over, how gene therapy gave a second skin to a boy with a rare epidermal disease, and how bone markings thought to be evidence for early hominid tool use may have been crocodile bites instead, with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Sarah Crespi interviews Gary King about his new experiment to bring fresh data to the age-old question of how the news media influences the public. Are journalists setting the agenda or following the crowd? How can you know if a news story makes a ripple in a sea of online information? In a powerful study, King’s group was able to publish randomized stories on 48 small and medium sized news sites in the United States and then track the results. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Chad Sparkes/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article
mp Salad-eating sharks, and what happens after quantum computing achieves quantum supremacy By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:00:00 -0500 David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about two underwater finds: the first sharks shown to survive off of seagrass and what fossilized barnacles reveal about ancient whale migrations. Sarah also interviews Staff Writer Adrian Cho about what happens after quantum computing achieves quantum supremacy—the threshold where a quantum computer’s abilities outstrip nonquantum machines. Just how useful will these machines be and what kinds of scientific problems might they tackle? Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Aleria Jensen, NOAA/NMFS/AKFSC; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Unearthed letters reveal changes in Fields Medal awards, and predicting crime with computers is no easy feat By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:00:00 -0500 Freelance science writer Michael Price talks with Sarah Crespi about recently revealed deliberations for a coveted mathematics prize: the Fields Medal. Unearthed letters suggest early award committees favored promise and youth over star power. Sarah also interviews Julia Dressel about her Science Advances paper on predicting recidivism—the likelihood that a criminal defendant will commit another crime. It turns out computers aren’t better than people at these types of predictions, in fact—both are correct only about 65% of the time. Jen Golbeck interviews Paul Shapiro about his book, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, in our monthly books segment. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Greg Chiasson/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp The dangers of dismantling a geoengineered sun shield and the importance of genes we don’t inherit By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:15:00 -0500 Catherine Matacic—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about how geoengineering could reduce the harshest impacts of climate change, but make them even worse if it were ever turned off. Sarah also interviews Augustine Kong of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom about his Science paper on the role of noninherited “nurturing genes.” For example, educational attainment has a genetic component that may or may not be inherited. But having a parent with a predisposition for attainment still influences the child—even if those genes aren’t passed down. This shift to thinking about other people (and their genes) as the environment we live in complicates the age-old debate on nature versus nurture. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Collection of Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon, Chief Scientist National Ice Center; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Following 1000 people for decades to learn about the interplay of health, environment, and temperament, and investigating why naked mole rats don’t seem to age By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:15:00 -0500 David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about the chance a naked mole rat could die at any one moment. Surprisingly, the probability a naked mole rat will die does not go up as it gets older. Researchers are looking at the biology of these fascinating animals for clues to their seeming lack of aging. Sarah also interviews freelancer Douglas Starr about his feature story on the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study—a comprehensive study of the lives of all the babies born in 1 year in a New Zealand hospital. Starr talks about the many insights that have come out of this work—including new understandings of criminality, drug addiction, and mental illness—and the research to be done in the future as the 1000-person cohort begins to enter its fifth decade. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Tim Evanson/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Chimpanzee retirement gains momentum, and x-ray ‘ghost images’ could cut radiation doses By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:45:00 -0400 Two of the world’s most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired. Hercules and Leo arrived at a chimp sanctuary in Georgia last week. Sarah Crespi checks in with Online News Editor David Grimm on the increasing momentum for research chimp retirement since the primates were labeled endangered species in 2015. Sarah also interviews freelancer Sophia Chen about her piece on x-ray ghost imaging—a technique that may lead to safer medical imaging done with cheap, single-pixel cameras. David Malakoff joins Sarah to talk about the big boost in U.S. science funding signed into law over the weekend. Finally, Jen Golbeck interviews author Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr on her book First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery for our monthly books segment. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Crystal Alba/Project Chimps; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 31 May 2018 14:00:00 -0400 Astronomers have been able to detect supermassive black holes and teeny-weeny black holes but the midsize ones have been elusive. Now, researchers have scanned through archives looking for middle-size galaxies and found traces of these missing middlers. Host Sarah Crespi and Staff Writer Daniel Clery discuss why they were so hard to find in the first place, and what it means for our understanding of black hole formation. Farming animals and plants for human consumption is a massive operation with a big effect on the planet. A new research project that calculated the environmental impact of global food production shows highly variable results for different foods—and for the same foods grown in different locations. Sarah talks with one of the researchers—Joseph Poore of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom—about how understanding this diversity can help cut down food production’s environmental footprint and help consumers make better choices. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Miltos Gikas/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:30:00 -0500 Because of its genetic complexity, the potato didn’t undergo a “green revolution” like other staple crops. It can take more than 15 years to breed a new kind of potato that farmers can grow, and genetic engineering just won’t work for tackling complex traits such as increased yield or heat resistance. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Erik Stokstad about how researchers are trying to simplify the potato genome to make it easier to manipulate through breeding. Researchers and companies are racing to perfect an injector pill—a pill that you swallow, which then uses a tiny needle to shoot medicine into the body. Such an approach could help improve compliance for injected medications like insulin. Host Meagan Cantwell and Staff Writer Robert F. Service discuss a new kind of pill—one that flips itself over once it hits the bottom of the stomach and injects a dose of medication into the stomach lining. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Michael Eric Nickel/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
mp Areas to watch in 2020, and how carnivorous plants evolved impressive traps By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:00:00 -0500 We start our first episode of the new year looking at future trends in policy and research with host Joel Goldberg and several Science News writers. Jeffrey Mervis discusses upcoming policy changes, Kelly Servick gives a rundown of areas to watch in the life sciences, and Ann Gibbons talks about potential advances in ancient proteins and DNA. In research news, host Meagan Cantwell talks with Beatriz Pinto-Goncalves, a postdoctoral researcher at the John Innes Centre, about carnivorous plant traps. Through understanding the mechanisms that create these traps, Pinto-Goncalves and colleagues elucidate what this could mean for how they emerged in the evolutionary history of plants. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: KiwiCo Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Full Article Scientific Community
mp An ancient empire hiding in plain sight, and the billion-dollar cost of illegal fishing By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:00:00 -0500 This week on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a turning point for one ancient Mesoamerican city: Tikal. On 16 January 378 C.E., the Maya city lost its leader and the replacement may have been a stranger. We know from writings that the new leader wore the garb of another culture—the Teotihuacan—who lived in a giant city 1000 kilometers away. But was this new ruler of a Maya city really from a separate culture? New techniques being used at the Tikal and Teotihuacan sites have revealed conflicting evidence as to whether Teotihuacan really held sway over a much larger region than previously estimated. Sarah also talks with Rashid Sumaila, professor and Canada research chair in interdisciplinary ocean and fisheries economics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries. You may have heard of illegal fishing being bad for the environment or bad for maintaining fisheries—but as Sumaila and colleagues report this week in Science Advances, the illegal fishing trade is also incredibly costly—with gross revenues of between $8.9 billion and $17.2 billion each year. In the books segment this month, Kiki Sanford interviews Gaia Vince about her new book Transcendence How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). Full Article Scientific Community
mp Mira & Misha try their hands at embroidery By timesofindia.indiatimes.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 11:14:40 IST Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput are reportedly self-quarantining in Punjab with their kids Misha and Zain. The duo has been making the most of their free time amid the lockdown and spending time with the family. Full Article
mp ‘Comply with COVID 19 safety protocol’ By www.thehindu.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:28:16 +0530 TIRUCHIThe Tiruchi Corporation has directed all its contractors to strictly adhere to all safety protocols prescribed in view of the COVID 19 pandemic Full Article Tiruchirapalli
mp Trump, 'stable genius' By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:41:00 +0530 It reads like a horror story, an almost comic immorality tale Full Article
mp Donald Trump: Colossus unbound By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:56:00 +0530 Unmaking the Presidency, by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, isn't just another compendium of insider gossip and bumbling treachery Full Article
mp The bank behind Donald Trump By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 23:36:00 +0530 Name a banking scandal and Deutsche Bank was in the thick of it Full Article
mp Product :: Brand Flip, The: Why customers now run companies and how to profit from it By www.peachpit.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
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mp On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989 - 1992 By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life?In this major work the great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu addresses these fundamental questions. Modifying Max Weber’s famous definition, Bourdieu defines the state in terms of the monopoly of legitimate physical Read More... Full Article
mp A Companion to Adorno By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z A definitive contribution to scholarship on Adorno, bringing together the foremost experts in the fieldAs one of the leading continental philosophers of the last century, and one of the pioneering members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor W. Adorno is the author of numerous influentialand at times quite radicalworks on diverse topics in aesthetics, social theory, moral philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy, all of which concern the contradictions Read More... Full Article
mp Companion to Women's and Gender Studies By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z A comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, featuring original contributions from leading experts from around the worldThe Companion to Women's and Gender Studies is a comprehensive resource for students and scholars alike, exploring the central concepts, theories, themes, debates, and events in this dynamic field. Contributions from leading scholars and researchers cover a wide range of topics while providing Read More... Full Article
mp Bihar's great <em>ghar wapsi</em>: Is the state prepared? By www.rediff.com Published On :: Official figures say 1.8 lakh workers have returned home to Bihar. Unofficially, however, that figure is said to have crossed 3 lakhs. Full Article