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Inside the Plane Graveyard Training Future Air Crash Investigators

USC houses a collection of twisted, burnt, jagged aircraft wrecks in a warehouse outside Los Angeles and it's where they train students to act as detectives in helicopter and plane crashes.




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Inside LAX During the Most Ambitious Airport Move, Ever

We’re behind-the-scenes at Los Angeles’ airport, which is in the middle of five days of upheaval as 21 airlines swap terminals in the dead of night.




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Inside the Absurd Distillery Where They Make '20-Year' Rum in Six Days

Obsessive distiller Bryan Davis invented a contraption for aging booze fast. His goal: to create highly engineered, rapidly prototyped sprits that are unlike any you've tasted before.




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Amazon Now Considers Itself an AI Company | WIRED BizCon

Speaking at the WIRED Business Conference, Amazon SVP of Devices, David Limp confessed that if Amazon is to continue to thrive in the future, it has to consider itself an AI company.




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Inside the High-Tech Flag Football League That's Taking on the NFL

Jeff Lewis, a former Wall Street guy, is the founder of the American Flag Football League. It’s a new, teched-out version of the game and he believes it's the future of football.




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Inside the Studio Where Aerial Photography Turns into Prints That Last Forever | My Space

Artist Justin Guariglia uses a high-tech printer to create art that documents Earth's melting glaciers.




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Go Inside the Lab That’s Giving Robots a Sense of Touch

Go inside Syntouch, the laboratory developing a robotic finger that senses pressure, heat, and texture. This handy robot has huge implications for the world of prosthetics and product descriptions, and it may one day change the way we think about and describe our sense of touch.




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Inside the Studio Where Paint and Water Create Mesmerizing Photos | My Space

Kim Keever squeezes paint into a 200 gallon fish tank to make his art. The resulting photographs are vibrant odes to physics.




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Inside a Tornado Modeled By a Supercomputer

Leigh Orf, an an atmospheric scientist, narrates a simulation of a superstorm tornado created by one of the world's most powerful supercomputers.




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Inside Keanu Reeves' Custom Motorcycle Shop

Keanu Reeves gives Wired a tour of Arch Motorcycle, where he and co-founder Gard Hollinger design and build totally custom handmade bikes with the help of virtual reality.




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How a Virtual Reality Journalist Takes Viewers Inside Stories

At Nonny de la Pena's Los Angeles-based Emblematic Group real stories, from melting glaciers to solitary confinement, are made in full virtual reality.




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Inside the Room Housing 46 Million Museum Specimen

Only 2 percent of the California Academy of Sciences’ specimen are on display. The other 98 percent are in environmentally controlled storage. This is how they go from salvage to research specimen.




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Inside the Lab That’s Making Sure Your Weed Is Safe

As cannabis use goes recreational in California, producers are facing a reckoning: They’ll either have to clean up their act, or get out of the legal market.




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Go Inside The Dome That Could Give Robots Super Senses

Step inside the Panoptic Studio, a dome at Carnegie Mellon University where researchers are capturing data on human gestures, which will be used to create more lifelike and responsive robots.




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Inside the Lab That's Building a Robot Cat

Like most robots, Kleo the Cat has a tough time moving around. But that could change soon. That's thanks to researchers at USC who are using lessons from biology to create more dexterous machines.




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Technique Critique - Surgical Resident Breaks Down Medical Scenes From Film & TV

Annie Onishi, general surgery resident at Columbia University, takes a look at emergency room and operating room scenes from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they really are. Correction: We misidentified the type of worm in the Grey's Anatomy episode at 5:23! It was actually Ascaris lumbricoides,not Strongyloides




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Inside the Lab That Could Help Save Corals From Destruction

Scientists reach a milestone in establishing a captive coral population that could reproduce year after year, allowing researchers to perform crucial studies.




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Go Inside the Aerodrome, Where the Future of Flight Takes Shape

Welcome to the Aerodrome, where engineers are simulating wind conditions to teach drones to fly safely.




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Technique Critique - Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down Actors Playing Presidents

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. This time, Erik is focusing on actors's portrayals of US presidents. How close was Josh Brolin to capturing George W. Bush in W.? Is Jay Pharoah's version of Obama true to life? Is it even possible for an actor to accurately portray George Washington? Check out more from Erik here: http://www.eriksinger.com/




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Technique Critique - Surgical Resident Breaks Down More Medical Scenes From Film & TV

Annie Onishi, general surgery resident at Columbia University, takes a look at more emergency room and operating room scenes from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they really are.




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Inside the Science Behind This Incredible Water-Based Illusion

WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez visits with Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman to learn about illusions showing water that appears to stand still or float upward, wheels that appear to move backwards, and more.




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Latest News: Applications for Teacher-in-Residence

The Library of Congress is seeking applications from current teachers of journalism or economics for a Teacher-in-Residence position within its Learning and Innovation Office during the 2020-21 school year.

The program description and application details for the position can be found at this website. Applications are due on Friday, March 27, 2020.

Click here for more information.




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1,001 ways to engage employees [electronic resource] : help people do better what they do best / by Dr. Bob Nelson, President, Nelson Motivation, Inc. ; foreword by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith

Nelson, Bob, author




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HR from the outside in [electronic resource] : the next era of human resources transformation / by Dave Ulrich ... [et al.]




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Making human capital analytics work [electronic resource] : measuring the ROI of human capital processes and outcomes / Patricia Pulliam Phillips, PhD, President and CEO, ROI Institute, Jack J. Phillips, PhD, Chairman, ROI Institute

Phillips, Patricia Pulliam, author




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Effectiveness of the Aged Care Quality Assessment and accreditation framework for protecting residents from abuse and poor practices, and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practised : final report / Community Affairs R

Australia. Parliament. Senate. Community Affairs References Committee, author, issuing body




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Climate change and sea level rise in South Florida: the view of coastal residents / Risa Palm, Toby Bolsen

Online Resource




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Green and prosperous land: a blueprint for rescuing the British countryside / Dieter Helm

Dewey Library - GE190.G7 H45 2019




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Roadside geology of Tennessee / Marcy B. Davis

Dewey Library - QE165.D38 2019




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Reversibly-regulated drug release using poly(tannic acid) fabricated nanocarriers for reduced secondary side effects in tumor therapy

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00032A, Communication
Chao Chen, Tonghao Ma, Wen Tang, Xiaoli Wang, Yibing Wang, Jiafeng Zhuang, Yucheng Zhu, Ping Wang
This article introduced a reversibly pH-responsive and targeting nanocarrier based on mesoporous silica nanoparticles which could be utilized to reduce the “secondary” side effects on normal tissues.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Kerala considers amending NRKs quarantine guidelines

The government is exploring the possibility of amending the quarantine guidelines for NRKs and for those who are coming from the red zones in other states. The discussion on amending the guidelines happened during the review meeting here on Friday.




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Serotonin / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside

Dewey Library - PQ2668.O77 S4813 2019




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Considering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Era of COVID-19

The guest for this episode of On the Evidence is Ralanda Nelson, the new associate director for diversity at Mathematica.




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MMOs from the inside out: the history, design, fun, and art of massively-multiplayer online role-playing games / Richard A. Bartle

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MMOs from the outside in: the massively-multiplayer online role-playing games of psychology, law, government, and real life / Richard A. Bartle

Online Resource




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MMOs from the Outside In: The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life / Richard A. Bartle

Online Resource




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Video games and storytelling: reading games and playing books / Souvik Mukherjee, Presidency University, Kolkata, India

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.A97 M85 2015




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Vintage games 2.0: an insider look at the most influential games of all time / Matt Barton

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.B37 2017




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[ASAP] <sup>13</sup>C NMR Relaxation Analysis of Protein GB3 for the Assessment of Side Chain Dynamics Predictions by Current AMBER and CHARMM Force Fields

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00050




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49ers investigating training camp sites outside California

The Cowboys still hope to hold training camp in Oxnard, California, this summer. The 49ers, Raiders, Chargers and Rams also are planning to have camp in California. But California was among the first states to entact stay-at-home orders and is expected to be among the last to allow large groups to convene. That means all [more]




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NFL Network's Steve Smith Sr.: 'Pressure is still on' Seattle Seahawks to sign outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney

NFL Network's Steve Smith Sr. believes pressure is still on Seattle Seahawks to sign outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney.




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Report: Bears considering pursuit of Larry Warford

As expected, Larry Warford quickly has become a highly sought-after free agent. Hours after the Saints released the offensive guard, the Texans expressed interest. The Bears also are considering pursuing Warford, Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune reports. They might not have long to consider whether they're interested. The Bears signed Germain Ifedi, a first-round [more]




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Polyimide/ZIF-7 Mixed-Matrix Membranes: Understanding in-situ Confined Formation of ZIF-7 Phases inside Polymer and Their Effects on Gas Separations

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA02761H, Paper
Sunghwan Park, Kie Yong Cho, Hae-Kwon Jeong
Polymer-modification-enabled in-situ metal-organic framework formation (PMMOF) is potentially a paradigm-shifting preparation method for polymer/MOF mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs). However, the actual reaction conditions of in-situ formation of MOF in the confined...
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Defying reality: the inside story of the virtual reality revolution / David M. Ewalt

Browsery QA76.9.C65 E9775 2018




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Long queues outside liquor shops pose a new challenge for Delhi Police

Some senior officers say that the government should review its decision to open liquor shops




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US President Donald Trump slams Lincoln Project Republicans for COVID-19 ad...

US President Donald Trump slams Lincoln Project Republicans for COVID-19 ad...




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Patti Smith’s Self Portraits: Another Side of the Prolific Artist

Young artists can understandably feel hesitant about trying new things. It’s hard enough to compete as a musician, for example. Why try to publish poetry or make visual art, too? Older, more established artists who branch out often have trouble being taken seriously in other fields. Patti Smith—poet, singer, memoirist, photographer, visual artist—has never seemed […]

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A Virtual Tour Inside the Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Museum

Let us pray that organization expert Marie Kondo never comes within spitting distance of A Boy’s Room, part of the Studio Ghibli museum’s Where a Film is Born installation. It’s not likely that every single item in the massive (and no doubt well dusted) collection of books, postcards, hand tools, pictures, figurines, and other assorted tchotchkes pictured above […]

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