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Guillermo del Toro Explains Why “Crimson Peak” is Not a Horror Flick

Don’t call Guillermo del Toro’s new film “Crimson Peak” a horror film. The director explains why his new movie classifies as a gothic romance, and he talks about how they built a real version of the castle that’s featured in the flick.




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Director Danny Boyle on Why “Steve Jobs” Is Not a Biopic

“Steve Jobs” is more than just a biopic. Director Danny Boyle explains the unique approach he took by shooting the movie in three different film formats to capture the life and achievements of the Apple co-founder.




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Toyota’s Funky i-Road Is Like Nothing I’ve Ever Driven

The i-Road's a new kind of three-wheeled concept that Toyota thinks we'll one day use to zip around city centers burning nothing but rubber.




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NASA Would Take C-3P0 to Space But Not R2-D2 or BB-8

Brett Kennedy, a roboticist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, breaks down the plausibility (or lack thereof) of Star Wars characters like R2-D2, C-3PO and the new BB-8.




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Absurd Creatures | The World’s Silkiest Anteater Is Not–I Repeat, Not–Stoned

The silky anteater isn't high. It's just tired, because this proficient nocturnal hunter has no business being up during the day.




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This Startup Wants to Use Drones to Drop Blood, Not Bombs

A California startup is testing a fleet of delivery drones in the hope of deploying them to deliver blood in rural Rwanda.




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Absurd Creatures | Silly Tree Kangaroo, You’re Not Supposed to Be Up There

The tree kangaroo may have shrunken hind legs, but hey, at least it can walk backwards unlike regular roos. Oh, also: It can plummet out of trees and not suffer the consequences.




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Nothing Is as Cool as Sequencing DNA in Space. Just Ask Kate Rubins

Kate Rubins is a biologist-turned-astronaut who's studied infectious disease in a biosafety level 4 facility and on the ground in Congo. That wasn't enough for her, so she went to space to sequence some DNA.




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Voting From the ISS Is a Cinch. Mars? Not So Much

NASA Astronauts voted from the International Space Station thanks to some nifty legislation, but what about when they are 34 million miles away on Mars?




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How the Morpho Butterfly Can Be Blue But Also Not Really Blue

The morpho butterfly appears blue but it isn't actually. It looks blue not because of pigment but because of some very fancy scales on its wings.




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Google's AlphaGo Notches Another Win for AI

Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence system edged out the best human Go player for a 2-0 win. But it is also playing with and against teams of professional human players.




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The Whirl Is Not Enough: Check Out These Wild Luxury Fidget Spinners

Why whirl a cheap plastic fidget spinner when you could twist with a premium toy made of tough titanium or milled from aerospace grade aluminum?




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Fear Not the Robot Singularity

The robot revolution we’re in the midst of is way more interesting and way less murder-y than science fiction. Call it the multiplicity.




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Lab-Grown Meat is Coming, Whether You Like it or Not

Food scientists and startups are trying to make meat more ethically appealing by growing it -- cell by cell -- in a lab instead of on a farm. Even some vegans support so-called "clean" meat. But can lab grown meat overcome the dreaded "yuck factor?"




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Watch MIT’s Hypnotic Robot Fish Swim a Coral Reef

Researchers detail the evolution of the world’s strangest fish, and describe how it could be a potentially powerful tool for scientists to study ocean life.




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Notifications Are Stressing Us Out

Many smartphone users get 80 or more notifications a day. WIRED's Lauren Goode examines how all those notifications are affecting us, what to do about them, and how we even ended up with so many in the first place.




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Rights, not interests [electronic resource] : resolving value clashes under the National Labor Relations Act / James A. Gross

Gross, James A., 1933- author




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Not everyone gets a trophy [electronic resource] : how to manage the millenials / Bruce Tulgan

Tulgan, Bruce, author




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The design and analysis of computer experiments / Thomas J. Santner, Brian J. Williams, William I. Notz

Santner, Thomas J., 1947- author




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The basic practice of statistics / David S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. Fligner

Moore, David S., author




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Statistics : concepts and controversies / David S. Moore (Purdue University), William I. Notz (The Ohio State University)

Moore, David S., author




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Why I am not a feminist : a feminist manifesto / Jessa Crispin

Crispin, Jessa, author




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Introduction to coastal processes and geomorphology / Robin Davidson-Arnott, Bernard Bauer, Chris Houser

Dewey Library - GB451.2.D36 2019




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Carbon dot-assisted luminescence of singlet oxygen: the generation dynamics but not the cumulative amount of singlet oxygen is responsible for the photodynamic therapy efficacy

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00128G, Communication
Xu Teng, Feng Li, Chao Lu, Buhong Li
The rapid generation dynamics of 1O2 rather than its cumulative amount is responsible for better treatment efficacy in PDT.
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Single-crystalline CoFe nanoparticles encapsulated in N-doped carbon nanotubes as a bifunctional catalyst for water splitting

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00126K, Research Article
Xiaojun Zeng, Myeong Je Jang, Sung Mook Choi, Hyun-Seok Cho, Chang-Hee Kim, Nosang Vincent Myung, Yadong Yin
We utilize a simple heat-treatment process to synthesize single-crystalline CoFe alloy nanoparticles encapsulated in N-doped carbon nanotubes, which exhibit excellent catalytic activity and superior stability towards overall water splitting.
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L'écharpe rouge: suivi de, Deux scènes et notes conjointes / Yves Bonnefoy

Hayden Library - PQ2603.O533 A6 2016




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Holy deadlock and further ribaldries: another dozen medieval French plays in modern English / edited and translated by Jody Enders

Hayden Library - PQ1240.E8 H65 2017




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A journey round my room / by Xavier De Maistre ; translated from the French, with a notice of the author's life by H.A

Rotch Library - PQ2342.M3 V6913 1871a




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Nothing but waves and wind / Christine Montalbetti ; translated from the French by Jane Kuntz

Hayden Library - PQ2713.O576 P5813 2017




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Not one day / Anne Garréta ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan and the author

Hayden Library - PQ2667.A7737 P3713 2017




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The complete poetry of Aimé Césaire / translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman ; introduction, notes and glossary by A. James Arnold

Hayden Library - PQ3949.C44 A2 2017




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Robur the conqueror / Jules Verne ; translated with introduction and notes by Alex Kirstukas ; edited by Arthur B. Evans

Hayden Library - PQ2469.R6 E5 2017




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Letters to his neighbor / Marcel Proust ; translated, with an afterword, by Lydia Davis ; text edited and annotated by Estelle Gaudry and Jean-Yves Tadié ; with a foreword by Jean-Yves Tadié

Hayden Library - PQ2631.R63 A2 2017




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Journal of a homecoming: Cahier d'un retour au pays natal / Aimé Césaire ; translated by N. Gregson Davis ; introduction, commentary, and notes by F. Abiola Irele

Hayden Library - PQ3949.C44 C3413 2017




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The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalising of modernity. Jan M. Ziolkowski

Online Resource




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The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity Jan M. Ziolkowski

Online Resource




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The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity. Jan M. Ziolkowski

Online Resource




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The Tetris effect: the game that hypnotized the world / Dan Ackerman

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.A35 2016




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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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I am healthy, not suffering from any disease: Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said he is "totally healthy" and not suffering from any disease. Shah said rumours about his health conditions have been spread through social media. "I am totally healthy and I am not suffering from any disease," he said in the statement in Hindi which was posted on his Twitter handle.




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Social media should be a complement to real life. Not a substitute.

One effective way to correct unhealthy social-media habits is to fast for a few weeks and then come back with strict limits on use — for example, as in the University of Pennsylvania study, a few minutes per day on any individual platform. That puts social media where it rightfully belongs: under each user’s control, and as a complement to real life.

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What if Fake News Is Not the Real Problem on Social Media?

With another US Presidential election on the way in 2020, we can expect the debate around fake news to once again ramp up, and become a key focus of discussion as we look at how political influence spreads online.

What if Fake News Is Not the Real Problem on Social Media?




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Facebook spies on us but not by recording our calls

A 2019 study by the Pew Research Center showed that 51% of the people surveyed said they were uncomfortable with being tracked and categorized by Facebook.

complete article




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I am healthy, not suffering from any disease, says Amit Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said he is "totally healthy" and not suffering from any disease. Shah said rumours about his health conditions have been spread through social media. "I am totally healthy and I am not suffering from any disease," he said in the statement in Hindi which was posted on his Twitter handle.




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Shah slams Bengal govt for 'not allowing' migrant trains; Centre lying, says TMC

The return of migrant workers to West Bengal has become another flashpoint between the Centre and the TMC-led state government with home minister Amit Shah alleging that the state government is not allowing special trains. However, the TMC government accused the Centre of "lying" and said they have planned eight trains to ferry migrants.




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Microwave-assisted evolution of WO3 and WS2/WO3 hierarchical nanotrees

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA02027C, Paper
Noho Lee, Junghyeok Kwak, Ji Hye Kwak, Sang-Mun Jung, Jaerim Kim, Anupam Giri, Kaliannan Thiyagarajan, Yong-Tae Kim, Sunshin Jung, Jong Kyu Kim, Unyong Jeong
Although branched WO3 nanostructures have been investigated for electrochromic devices and catalytic electrodes, a detailed study on their structural evolution mechanism has rarely been carried out.
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Reversible changes in the electronic structure of carbon nanotube-hybrids upon NO2 exposure under ambient conditions

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA02749A, Paper
Open Access
Filippo Fedi, Oleg Domanov, Hidetsugu Shiozawa, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Paolo Lacovig, Silvano Lizzit, Andrea Goldoni, Thomas Pichler, Paola Ayala
Single-walled carbon nanotubes have enormous potential for gas sensing. This study shows that cluster filling is a key to high sensitivity and it opens the possibility for a very high desorption at ambient temperature.
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Upcoming Events: Notice of Changes

The Library of Congress announces the following changes in upcoming scheduled events:

All other Library events are continuing as scheduled at this time. Click here for a full calendar of Library events.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.




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NEWS: Library Buildings Closed Until Further Notice

Out of an abundance of caution, all Library of Congress buildings and facilities will be closed to the public, including researchers and others with reader identification cards, until further notice to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19 coronavirus. The Library has reduced the number of people in Library buildings to a very small number of necessary individuals.

Click here for more information.




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Bilateral deals might not be equitable for Covid-19: MPP executive director Charles Gore

The Medicines Patent Pool is a United Nations-backed public health organisation that helps middle- and low-income countries get access to critical drugs. MPP executive director Charles Gore told ET’s Divya Rajagopal about the organisation’s plan to ensure equitable access of Covid-19 drugs and vaccines.