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596: The Year of AI, Arc, and Being Mad About the Right Thing

Looking back at the year of AI, using Arc on macOS and now Windows, dreaming of subscriptions, and knowing how to be mad about the right thing.




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604: VS Code Plugins, Git as a Radical Statement, Tailwind & Arc Drama

A follow up on jQuery conversation, Microsoft owning all the things, what VS Code plugins are your ride or die, the ability to Git from wherever you want, Tailwind drama, global design system follow up, Arc Search gets roasted, and Frontend Design Conference is back!




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613: Recording Live Music, WebC, Open Source, & WordPress Studio

Chris bought recording gear off an Instagram ad, our thoughts on WebC, CodePen upgrades Yarn, thoughts on the commercial value of open source, Automattic releases an app to install WordPress locally, IBM buys Hashicorp, income tax software, and a hack for getting Safari to respect background colors used in a pseudo selector.




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637: Approachable Open Source with Brian Muenzenmeyer

Brian Muenzenmeyer joins the show to talk about his book, Approachable Open Source, ways we can make open source easier to get in, important conversations around funding and supporting open source, and whether money helps maintainers deal with burnout or not?




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Architecture of the senses

A building should have greenery, sound of water flowing, feel of natural stone under the feet, the smell of trees, flowers and fresh mud, and a charming yet sensitive design, feels architect Mona Doctor Pingel. A look by Nandhini Sundar.




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Ferrari's Leclerc fined for swearing

Stewards at the Brazilian race summoned Leclerc on Friday, acting on a report from the governing FIA's media delegate and after reviewing a written transcript.




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Three arrested for raping intellectually disabled research scholar from Odisha




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DMRC launches bike taxis for last-mile connectivity




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BharatPe fraud case: Delhi HC quashes lookout circular against Ashneer Grover, wife




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Rare California Island to be Activated for Armed Forces Day, First Time in 53 Years

On Armed Forces Day, May 1971, 53 years ago, two amateur operators working as WZ6SNI, activated San Nicolas Island, IOTA NA-066. At 61 miles, San Nicolas is the most remote of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California and is owned by the US Navy.

Now, weather permitting, Will Costello, WC6DX, has been authorized to be active from San Nicolas Island November 8 - 12, 2024. He is tak...




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Clobbered by circumstances?

Merit is not as meritorious as it seems; luck plays a bigger part




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Research paper warns against nationwide switch to natural farming without proper studies

It can hamper national food production, say authors, who cite contrasting results from two studies




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Innovations in traditional methods revolutionising farming in Rajasthan’s parched Shekhawati

The decline in the groundwater level is a major issue for agriculturists in all four districts of Shekhawati — Sikar, Jhunjhunu, Churu, and Neem Ka Thana




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Fertilizers are source of several diseases; switch to organic farming, says Amit Shah 

Shah said that the movement for organic farming has reached an important stage and cooperatives have an important role in making India the world’s largest organic food producing country




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After loss of one vision, carpenter overcomes odds to script a success story in farming

After Udayakumar, from Mahadevikadu, near Haripad, lost his vision in one eye 15 years ago, his career as a woodworker came to an abrupt end. He then turned to agriculture to find solace and success through determination and resilience.




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Collective memory as currency [electronic resource] : the dominance of the past in the present / Tracy Adams.

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter [2024]




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The certainty trap [electronic resource] : why we need to question ourselves more--and how we can judge others less / Ilana Redstone ; foreword by Joe Walsh.

Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2024]




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Observability and mathematics [electronic resource] : Quantum Yang-Mills theory and modelling / Boris Khots.




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GlaxoSmithKline Pharma March quarter net at Rs. 106 cr.




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Foreign investors reduce holdings in top 200 companies in March quarter




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Jabong sales up 14% in March quarter




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E-commerce soaks up 2 m sqft of warehouse realty in 2015




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ICSI, NISM ink academic, research tie-up




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Vasan urges T.N. govt. to take steps to end illegal sale of narcotic drugs

He expressed concerns over the future of a section of students and youth who were allegedly involved in using and selling such banned substances




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Bubbles and drops between circular frames: shape, force and stability analysis

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8420-8435
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00919C, Paper
Open Access
Friedrich Walzel, Jonathan Dijoux, Leandro Jacomine, Élodie Harle, Pierre Muller, Thierry Charitat, Wiebke Drenckhan
Combining experiments, simulations and theory, we provide a complete shape analysis of two bubbles held by circular frames in the parameter space of different frame radii, distances between frames and contact angle between bubbles (0°, 60° and 90°).
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Src kinase slows collective rotation of confined epithelial cell monolayers

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00827H, Paper
Nastassia Pricoupenko, Flavia Marsigliesi, Philippe Marcq, Carles Blanch-Mercader, Isabelle A Bonnet
Collective cell migration is key during development, wound healing and metastasis and relies on coordinated cell behaviors at the group level. Src kinase is a key signalling protein for physiological...
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Mechanical properties soft hydrogels: assessment by scanning ion-conductance microscopy and atomic force microscopy

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00966E, Paper
Tatiana Tikhonova, Yuri M. Efremov, Vasilii Kolmogorov, Aleksei Iakovlev, Nikolay Sysoev, Peter S. Timashev, Victor Fadeev, Alexander Tivtikyan, Sergey Salikhov, Petr Gorelkin, Yuri Korchev, Alexandr Erofeev, Evgeny Shirshin
The growing interest in biomimetic hydrogels is due to their successful applications in tissue engineering, 3D cell culturing and drug delivery. Major characteristics of hydrogels include swelling, porosity, degradation rate,...
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Supramolecular chiroptical sensing of chiral species based on circularly polarized luminescence

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00960F, Review Article
Panyang Chen, Huahua Fan, Sifan Du, Xin Wen, Li Zhang, Minghua Liu
Chiral analytes can bind to an achiral fluorescent system to generate circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). Subsequently, the CPL signal can be employed to determine the absolute configuration of the chiral substrate.
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Biomimetic mineralization of positively charged silica nanoparticles templated by thermoresponsive protein micelles: applications to electrostatic assembly of hierarchical and composite superstructures

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00907J, Paper
Nada Y. Naser, William C. Wixson, Helen Larson, Brandi M. Cossairt, Lilo D. Pozzo, François Baneyx
Exploiting the ability of a solid-binding elastin-like peptide to micellize, we mineralize monodisperse silica nanoparticles whose positive surface charge enables one-step electrostatic assembly of various mono- and bi-material superstructures.
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Percolation transitions in a binary mixture of active Brownian particles with different softness

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00981A, Paper
Monika Sanoria, Raghunath Chelakkot, Amitabha Nandi
Homogeneous active Brownian particle (ABP) systems with purely repulsive interactions are considered to exhibit a simple phase behavior, but various physical attributes of active entities can lead to variation in the collective dynamics.
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A plan of exercise

No matter what your schedule may be, if you make a little time for a workout a day, it keeps all the aches away




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Editorial. E-commerce bogey, again

Clarity on regulatory, policy environment needed




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Editorial. Small-scale commercial nuclear reactors, the way forward

It is increasingly being realised that achieving net-zero is not possible without nuclear energy




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Tamilnad Mercantile Bank posts ₹303 cr net profit in Q2

Net interest income grew by 12 per cent to ₹596 crore, up from ₹533 crore a year earlier



  • Money & Banking

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SBI appoints Debasish Mishra as Chief General Manager of its New Delhi Circle

Debasish Mishra has experience across Credit, Operations, Forex, IT, HR, and MSME sectors, both in India and overseas



  • Money & Banking

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₹2000 note withdrawal: Only 2% remain in circulation

The facility for exchange of the ₹2000 banknotes is available at RBI’s 19 Issue Offices since May 19, 2023, per a central bank statement



  • Money & Banking

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JC Flowers ARC seeks bids to sell ₹2,613 crore of bad loans via Swiss challenge mode

The NPAs on block were part of YES Bank’s legacy bad loan portfolio.



  • Money & Banking

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PB Fintech reports ₹51 crore profit in Q2, overcoming previous losses

Although this profit figure is lower than the ₹60 crore recorded in the previous quarter, it marks the fourth consecutive profitable quarter for the company.



  • Money & Banking

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The Circle / directed by: Mort Ransen ; produced by: John Kemeny ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2020




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The Moccasin Game / directed by: Frank Corcoran ; produced by: Dennis Sawyer ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2019




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If Only ... / directed by: Marc Aubry ; produced by: Robert Forget ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2021




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The Drag / directed by: Carlos Marchiori ; produced by: Wolf Koenig, Robert Verrall ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2014




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YSRCP MP Avinash Reddy alleges harassment of his personal assistant by police

Police went to Raghava Reddy’s residence late on Friday and ransacked furniture, he alleges




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Five arrested in attack case; police deny political angle in attack on YSRC activist

The attacker was a tenant of the victim and had a grudge as he had been asked to vacate the by the victim, the police said




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Suo motu cases against YSRCP chief Jagan if he issues threats to police officers, warns Andhra Pradesh Deputy CM Pawan

The government is not prepared to take lightly the former Chief Minister’s recent statement that he would not spare some IPS officers even after their retirement, asserts Pawan Kalyan; the government will not let the sacrifices of forest martyrs go waste, he says




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Expose the government’s failures and stand firm in questioning its decisions, Jagan urges YSRCP MLCs

The ruling party seems to be unwilling to grant opposition status to YSRCP as it will have to allocate time and opportunities for the party to question the government, he says




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Man arrested and 20 stolen motorcycles worth ₹15 lakh recovered in Nandyal




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Andhra Pradesh Budget: CM Chandrababu Naidu thanked for prioritising water resource projects

The Chairman of the 20-Point Programme, Lanka Dinakar feels ₹16,075 crores allocated to irrigation projects in the Andhra Pradesh Budget will fulfill the agricultural, drinking water, and industrial needs of the State.




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YSRCP social media activist Varra Ravindra Reddy sent to judicial remand

Police form district-level teams to monitor ‘defamatory posts’




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Anantapur enforcement dirve: police register over 3,000 cases against violators of Motor Vehicle Act

In the drive conducted over one week, police register 12 cases against gambling dens, arrest 59 persons and seize more than ₹1.91 lakh cash, says SP P. Jagadeesh