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Learn to Fold Five Insanely Cool Paper Planes

John Collins, the Paper Airplane Guy, shows how to fold five amazing paper planes: the Boomerang, the Boomerang 2, the Bat Plane, the Tumbling Wing, and the World Record Plane (a.k.a. "Suzanne"). Read more about the Paper Airplane Guy at WIRED.com: https://www.wired.com/story/learn-how-to-fold-a-world-record-setting-paper-airplane/ You can also visit his website for more information: https://www.thepaperairplaneguy.com




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I Traded My Phone for a Bunch of 25 Year Old Tech for a Day

How much has tech changed in the past quarter century? Writer Louise Matsakis spends a day doing her job using only the tech that was available in 1993.




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Why It's Almost Impossible to Climb 15 Meters in 5 Secs. (ft. Alex Honnold)

In 2020 climbing will be an official Olympic sport with three events -- lead, bouldering and speed climbing. The fastest time up the standard 15 meter speed wall is 5.48 seconds. Could it be faster? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez climbs with junior champion Jordan Fishman and professional climber Alex Honnold to find out.




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Obsessed - How This Artist Makes Sculptures Out of Old Typewriter Parts

Artist Jeremy Mayer has dedicated himself to transforming mechanical typewriter parts, and only typewriter parts, into detailed sculptures of birds, insects and human figures.




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Tech Support - Alex Honnold Answers Climbing Questions From Twitter

Alex Honnold uses the power of Twitter to answer common questions about climbing. What's Alex's favorite type of climbing hold? Do all rock climbers live in vans? Once you get to the top, how do you get back down? Alex answers all these questions, and more!




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Mycologist Explains How a Slime Mold Can Solve Mazes

Physarum polycephalum is a single-celled, brainless organism that can make “decisions,” and solve mazes. Anne Pringle, who is a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains everything you need to know about what these slime molds are and how they fit into our ecosystem.




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The quantum world of ultra-cold atoms and light / Crispin Gardiner, University of Otago, New Zealand, Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Gardiner, C. W. (Crispin W.), 1942- author




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Optimizing NMR methods for structure elucidation : characterizing natural products and other organic compounds / by Darcy C. Burns (University of Toronto, Canada, email, darcy.burns@utoronto.ca) and William F. Reynolds (University of Toronto, Canada, emai

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Thermodynamics : fundamentals and engineering applications / William C. Reynolds, Piero Colonna

Reynolds, William C., 1933-2004, author




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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

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Understanding research in the digital age / Sarah Quinton, Nina Reynolds

Quinton, Sarah, author




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250 million years of Earth history in central Italy: celebrating 25 years of the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco / edited by Christian Koeberl, David M. Bice

Dewey Library - QE272.A15 2019




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Folding and fracturing of rocks: 50 years of research since the seminal text book of J.G. Ramsay / edited by C.E. Bond and H.D. Lebit

Online Resource




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Sinking Chicago: climate change and the remaking of a flood-prone environment / Harold L. Platt

Hayden Library - QC903.2.U6 P53 2018




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A climate of fear / Fred Vargas ; translated from the French by Siân Reynolds

Hayden Library - PQ2682.A725 T4613 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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Love cures: healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett

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Slave old man / Patrick Chamoiseau ; with texts by Édouard Glissant ; translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale

Hayden Library - PQ3949.2.C45 E8213 2018




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Patron Services: History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust. Participatory Research Sprint.

Help us examine historic newspapers on microfilm in order to find out what Americans could have known about the Holocaust through reading their local newspapers.  Articles found during the sprint will be added to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s History Unfolded Project.

When: Thursday, November 14, 2019, 4-7 pm (drop-in hours)

Where: Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, James Madison Building, Room 133

Please RSVP through Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/Nov2019Sprint

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

Please contact Erin Sidwell with any questions about the sprint: esid@loc.gov

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

 

Click here for more information.




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Patron Services: Saturday Research Orientation: Researching Old Companies

Join the Business Reference Section of the Science, Technology & Business Division for a focused research orientation to resources for researching old companies. Whether you are trying to find out more about your great grandfather's small business, the value of that old stock certificate in your attic, or just curious about a company from the past, learn how to find materials both at the Library of Congress and in your local public library and historical society to help answer your questions. The session covers both print and electronic sources. All researchers are welcome.

 Date: Saturday, November 30, 2019, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

 Location: Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ-139B

 Click here for more information and to register.

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

 

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Patron Services: History Unfolded Research Sprint

The Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room is hosting a participatory research event with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for their History Unfolded project. In mid-May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began systematically to deport Hungarian Jews. Help us learn how the United States press reported on these deportations by researching microfilmed newspapers from across America.

Contribute to History Unfolded: https://newspapers.ushmm.org  

Space is limited, so please RSVP: http://bit.ly/Feb2020Sprint

Where: Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, LM-133, 1st floor, Madison Building

When: Monday, February 24, 2020, Drop-in anytime between 4pm and 7pm

Click here for more information.




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Three Things Primary Care Stakeholders (Mostly) Agree On

Simply put, 2019 has been a big year for primary care in the United States. Whether you follow federal or state healthcare news or simply follow investor-entrepreneur Mark Cuban on Twitter, it’s likely you’ve seen how the conversation about primary care has been elevated.




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Game love: essays on play and affection / edited by Jessica Enevold and Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.P79 G36 2015




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Retrogame archeology: exploring old computer games / John Aycock

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Retrogame archeology: exploring old computer games / John Aycock

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.A93 2016




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The postmodern joy of role-playing games: agency, ritual and meaning in the medium / René Reinhold Schallegger

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.S33 2018




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[ASAP] Exploiting a Mechanical Perturbation of a Titin Domain to Identify How Force Field Parameterization Affects Protein Refolding Pathways

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00080




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[ASAP] OPUS-Fold: An Open-Source Protein Folding Framework Based on Torsion-Angle Sampling

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00186




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33-year-old Olympic medal winner dies from cancer




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Four Bold Social Media Predictions For 2020

Predicting the future of social media is always fun.

Emerging platforms, secured patents, new tactics and demographic shifts are just a few things to consider when making a prediction.

So, what is next with social media as we look ahead to 2020? Here are four big predictions on the future of social media in 2020.

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Betty Wold Johnson, mom of New York Jets owners, dies at 99

Betty Wold Johnson earned the title of “First Lady of the Jets” throughout her time around the team.




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Plasmon-Enhanced Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction in Alkaline Media on Gold Nanohole Electrodes

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9TA14174J, Paper
Nait Saada Tamazouzt, Anderson da Silva, Palaniappan Subramanian, Liuqing Pang, Noual Adnane, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Vladyslav Mishyn, Dalila Meziane, Sorin Melinte, Georgiana Sandu, Franck Dumeignil, Sebastien Paul, Robert Wojcieszak, Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits
Plasmon-driven chemical transformation has become a promising approach for enhancing sluggish electrocatalytic reactions. Herein, an alternative enhancement strategy employing plasmon-induced hot electrons is developed to be competitive with oxygen reduction...
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Latest News: Reynolds New Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Jason Reynolds has been appointed as the seventh National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2020-2021. The Newbery Honor recipient succeeds Jacqueline Woodson, who served as National Ambassador in 2018-2019.

Reynolds is the author of 13 books for young people including his most recent, “Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks,” a National Book Award finalist, which was named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post and TIME. 

Click here for more information.




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Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez.

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Folding music / Max Giteck Duykers

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[ASAP] Carbocation versus Carbene Controlled Chemoselectivity: DFT Study on Gold- and Silver-Catalyzed Alkylation/Cyclopropanation of Indoles with Vinyl Diazoesters

Organic Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01476




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Ratan Tata invests in 17-year-old kid's pharma start-up Generic Aadhaar

Generic Aadhaar supplies quality generic drugs from reputed manufacturers at up to 80 per cent lesser cost and other medicines 20-30 per cent cheaper.




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Valley of genius: the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom / Adam Fisher

Browsery HD9696.2.U63 C3542 2018




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The new mind readers: what neuroimaging can and cannot reveal about our thoughts / Russell A. Poldrack

Browsery RC349.D52 P65 2018




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The 3-D global spatial data model: principles and applications / Earl F. Burkholder

Online Resource




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Morse theory of gradient flows, concavity and complexity on manifolds with boundary / Gabriel Katz

Dewey Library - QA614.7.K37 2020




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Letter to BS: Rahul should also hold discussions with Manmohan, Montek

Both have practical understanding of the Indian economy




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Gold in early Southeast Asia: selected papers from the symposium gold in Southeast Asia: Yale University Art Gallery, 13-14 May 2011/ Ruth Barnes, Emma Natalya Stein, and Benjamin Diebold, editors

Dewey Library - TN760.G653 2015




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Citizenship Amendment Act – Untold Pitfalls, Concealed War if India can’t oppose

The reason why Assam or Tripura is up against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, passed by the Union of India is very different from the reasons why the rest of India, including most Indian Universities, are protesting. Assam or Tripura does not want this Act at all – no matter its Hindus or Muslims. The […]

The post Citizenship Amendment Act – Untold Pitfalls, Concealed War if India can’t oppose appeared first on TIMES OF ASSAM by Priyankan Goswami.







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The 15 year old who won a Filmfare award

'Bollywood feels like a dream.' 'I never thought I would be a part of it, but I am glad that I am.'




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Flexible and luminescent fibers of a 1D Au(I)–thiophenolate coordination polymer and formation of gold nanoparticle-based composite materials for SERS

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01706J, Paper
Shefali Vaidya, Oleksandra Veselska, Antonii Zhadan, Marlène Daniel, Gilles Ledoux, Alexandra Fateeva, Takaaki Tsuruoka, Aude Demessence
Formation of flexible, red emissive and highly stable fibers of [Au(SPh)]n that can be calcined to generate gold nanoparticle composite fibers with a SERS effect.
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Low-threshold stimulated emission in perovskite quantum dots: single-exciton optical gain induced by surface plasmon polaritons at room temperature

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5847-5855
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00198H, Paper
Litao Zhao, Yu Chen, Xiantong Yu, Xiao Xing, Jinquan Chen, Jun Song, Junle Qu
The surface plasmon polaritons induced single-exciton lasing of lead halide perovskite QDs in room temperature may provide a new concept for the further design of low threshold stimulated emission colloidal nanocrystal lasers.
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