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WIRED's Top Science Stories of 2016

From gene editing and gravitational waves and the zika virus these were the top science stories of 2016.




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WIRED's Top Gadget Stories of 2016

2016 was the year a lot changed in gear. We lost headphone jacks on iPhones, got Snap's Spectacles and artificial intelligence is now powering a lot of our gadgets.




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WIRED's Top Culture Stories of 2016

2016 was the year of retro-mania fueled Pokemon Go and Stranger Things and the beginning of a more diverse television future. Here are WIRED's top stories from the world of movies, music and TV.




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WIRED's Top Transportation Stories of 2016

2016 was a wild year in transportation ¬– from self-driving cars to smarter cities – WIRED looks back at some of the biggest stories about getting around.




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WIRED's Top Design Stories of 2016

Designers tackled some of the most pressing issues of our time in 2016. From equality to climate change, here are WIRED's most inspirational design stories of the year.




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Here’s How Fake News Works (and How the Internet Can Stop It)

Many fake news peddlers didn’t care if Trump won or lost the election. They only wanted to pocket money. But the consequences of what they did shook the world. This is how it happened.




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Why We Love the New Microsoft Laptop

The Microsoft Surface Laptop is a great-looking, light and super usable notebook. Here's more about why we love it.




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How to Stop the New York City Subway Apocalypse

New York City's subway is overcrowded and late. And that's just the beginning. Here's how the Metropolitan Transportation Authority could get the system back on track.




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Fiery Explosions Show Why the FAA Doesn’t Want Laptops in Luggage

There's a good reason the FAA doesn't want passengers packing their laptops in checked luggage. There they can overheat and ignite and even explode if packed with aerosol cans.




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The Trouble with Techno-Utopianism: Anand Giridharadas & Virginia Heffernan | WIRED25

Author Anand Giridharadas has penned sharp appraisals of Silicon Valley's benevolent titans and their technocratic solutionism. At WIRED25, he spoke with WIRED's Virginia Heffernan about the colliding forces that challenge a default optimism when it comes to technology. This event was part of WIRED's 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.




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Why Top Scientists Are Pretending an Asteroid is Headed for Earth

Some of the world's best scientists are running drills to practice for a near earth object collision. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez spoke with Cathy Plesko from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, to find out how we would respond to an incoming collision. Would nuclear detonations work? What does a "City Killer" look like? Would impact in the water be worse than impact on land? Find out more from Plesko.




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A guide to mathematical methods for physicists : advanced topics and applications / Michela Petrini (Sorbonne Université, Paris, France), Gianfranco Pradisi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Alberto Zaffaroni (University of Milano-Bicocca, Ita

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17 rules successful companies use to attract and keep top talent [electronic resource] : why engaged employees are your greatest sustainable advantage / David Russo

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The art of managing professional services [electronic resource] : insights from leaders of the world's top firms / Maureen Broderick

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Confronting Dystopia [electronic resource] : The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work / edited by Eva Paus




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Find (and keep) top talent for your business (collection) [electronic resource] / Vince Thompson [and five others]

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Mining goes digital: proceedings of the 39th International Symposium 'Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry' (APCOM 2019), June 4-6, 2019, Wroclaw, Poland / editors: Christoph Mueller [and 6 more]

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Iron geochemistry: an isotopic perspective / Clark Johnson, Brian Beard, Stefan Weyer

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Introduction to plant fossils / Christopher J. Cleal, Barry A. Thomas

Hayden Library - QE905.C54 2019




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Case studies in isotope stratigraphy / edited by Michael Montenari

Dewey Library - QE515 M68 2019




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Mémoires occupées: fictions françaises et Seconde Guerre mondiale / Marc Dambre (éd.) avec le concours de Christopher D. Lloyd et Richard J. Golsan

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Pwezi a kat men: Pòtoprens an nwa e blan / Indran Amirthanayagam, Alex LaGuerre

Hayden Library - PQ3949.3.A54 P83 2017




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The safe house: a novel / Christophe Boltanski ; translated by Laura Marris

Hayden Library - PQ2662.O5712 C3313 2017




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Checkpoint / Jean-Christophe Rubin ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson

Hayden Library - PQ2678.U357 C4413 2017




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Tristan Corbière: oysters, nightingales and cooking pots: selected poetry and prose in translation / translated by Christopher Pilling ; edited by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe ; with an introduction by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe

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A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast

Hayden Library - PQ103.H57 2017




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Online game pioneers at work: interviews with some of the top online game pioneers of our times / Morgan Ramsay ; foreword by Richard Bartle

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Making games: with JavaScript / Christopher Pitt

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Contemporary research on intertextuality in video games / Christophe Duret, Christian-Marie Pons, [editors]

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.C6464 2016




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Geogames and geoplay: game-based approaches to the analysis of geo-information / Ola Ahlqvist, Christoph Schlieder, editors

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.G465 2018




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Real games: what's legitimate and what's not in contemporary videogames / Mia Consalvo and Christopher A. Paul

Dewey Library - GV1469.3.C6463 2019




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Playing dystopia: nightmarish worlds in video games and the player's aesthetic response / Gerald Farca

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 F37 2018




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Tabletop role-playing games and the experience of imagined worlds / Nicholas J. Mizer

Dewey Library - GV1469.6.M59 2019




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The toxic meritocracy of video games: why gaming culture is the worst / Christopher A. Paul

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 P38 2018




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‘Blind time’ – current limitations on laser ablation multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICP-MS) for ultra-transient signal isotope ratio analysis and application to individual sub-micron sized uranium particles

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00066C, Paper
Grant Craig, Matthew S. A. Horstwood, Helen J. Reid, Barry L. Sharp
Gaps in acquisition between integration times for MC-ICP-MS can introduce isotope ratio bias with a mixed detector array.
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Iso-Compass: new freeware software for isotopic data reduction of LA-MC-ICP-MS

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00084A, Technical Note
Wen Zhang, Zhaochu Hu, Yongsheng Liu
New freeware, Iso-Compass, is developed specifically to process the isotope data from LA-MC-ICP-MS and MC-ICP-MS.
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Calibration-free quantitative analysis of D/H isotopes with fs-laser filament

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00062K, Paper
Genggeng Li, Huaming Hou, Pengxu Ran, Yunlong Zhao, Zhengye Zhong
The analytical characteristics of D/H isotopes with fs-laser filament are investigated via analyzing a set of D-enriched water samples with D concentrations from 0.5 to 20%. The filament emission spectra...
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Rapid determination of Ba isotope compositions for barites using H2O-extraction method and MC-ICP-MS

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00078G, Paper
Lan-Lan Tian, Ying-Zeng Gong, Wei Wei, Jin-Ting Kang, Hui-Min Yu, Fang Huang
This study presents a rapid and simple method of high precision Ba isotope measurement for barite using H2O extraction. The main challenge for analyzing Ba isotope composition of barite is...
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High performance method for the accurate and precise determination of silicon isotopic compositions in bulk silicate rock samples using laser ablation MC-ICP-MS

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00036A, Paper
Chenxi Zhang, He Zhao, Wen Zhang, Tao Luo, Ming Li, Keqing Zong, Yongsheng Liu, Zhaochu Hu
MC-ICP-MS has become one of the most powerful analytical methods for Si isotopes in bulk liquid and solid samples in the past decade. Laser ablation provides direct sampling of solid...
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Zirconium stable isotope analysis of zircon by MC-ICP-MS: Methods and application to evaluating intra-crystalline zonation in a zircon megacryst

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9JA00315K, Paper
Open Access
Hannah G. D. Tompkins, Lisa Joanne Zieman, Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia, François L.H. Tissot
Zirconium (Zr) plays a key role in the development of phases like zircon (ZrSiO4) and baddeleyite (ZrO2) in magmatic systems. These minerals are crucial for the study of geologic time...
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Top 10 Bible Studies from James for Fall 2019

This fall’s top ten list cover a variety of bible studies on James. Each curriculum gives you resources to lead a group study, but is also perfect as your own personal study.




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Top 10 Bible Studies on Revelation for Fall 2019

This fall’s top ten list cover a variety of bible studies on Revelation. Each curriculum gives you resources to lead a group study, but is also perfect as your own personal study.




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Top 10 Bible Studies on Prayer for Fall 2019

Our most popular studies on prayer for fall of 2019.




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Top 3 Bible Studies on Gray Areas of Faith for Fall 2019

This fall’s top three list cover bible studies on gray areas of faith. Each curriculum gives you resources to lead a group study, but is also perfect as your own personal study.




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Top 10 Bible Studies for Fall 2019

Our most popular studies for fall of 2019.




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Top 5 Bible Courses for Christmas

These were your favorite studies on this topic.




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Top 10 Digital Bible Studies for Spring 2020




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9 Types of Content to Stop Posting on Social Media

Here is the thing: when you post bad content to your social media channels, you run the risk of overshadowing all the hard work you have put into building your presence, and establishing connection with your online audience.

And because we do not want to let you do that, in this post, we're going to outline nine content types which could be wrecking your social media - and losing you followers.

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Stop Doing These 7 Embarrassing Things on Social Media

When you think about embarrassing social media behavior, you probably think about octogenarians who accidentally post their phone numbers in a Facebook status. But embarrassing social media perils are everywhere for users of all ages, particularly for actors. But it is 2019 and social media is as important to your acting brand as your signature monologue or audition song, so we want to help you avoid these digital landmines and lead with your best online foot forward.

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Glassdoor Finds That Twitter Is the Top-Paying Social Network in 2019

Twitter topped its social network competition on job and recruiting site Glassdoor’s list of the 25 highest paying companies in 2019, coming in at No. 3 overall with a median base salary of $162,852.

Other social networks to crack the top 25 were LinkedIn (No. 7, $157,402) and Facebook (No. 8, $152,962).

The list was dominated by tech firms, many of which are based in Silicon Valley.

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