sl The book of dreams: a novel / Nina George ; translated by Simon Pare By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 06:45:35 EST Dewey Library - PT2707.E59 T7313 2019 Full Article
sl Origin of the German trauerspiel / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 06:39:15 EDT Online Resource Full Article
sl How the measles virus disables immunity to other diseases and a news roundup By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2015 14:00:00 -0400 Michael Mina discusses how measles destroys immunity to other infectious diseases and why the measles vaccine has led to disproportionate reductions in childhood mortality since its introduction 50 years ago, and David Grimm discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: UNICEF Ethiopia/Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND 2.0, via flickr] Full Article
sl Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:00:00 -0500 Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on confessions extracted from sleepy people, malaria hiding out in deer, and making squishable bots based on cockroaches. Corinne Simonti joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss whether Neandertal DNA in the human genome is helping or hurting. Read the related research in Science. [Image: Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings. Courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley.] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Podcast: Nuclear forensics, honesty in a sea of lies, and how sliced meat drove human evolution By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:00:00 -0500 Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on the influence of governmental corruption on the honesty of individuals, what happened when our ancestors cut back on the amount of time spent chewing food, and how plants use sand to grind herbivores‘ gears. Science’s International News Editor Rich Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his forensics story on how to track down the culprits after a nuclear detonation. [Image: Miroslav Boskov] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Podcast: Tracking rats in a city slum, the giraffe genome, and watching human evolution in action By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 19 May 2016 13:59:00 -0400 Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on finding clues to giraffes’ height in their genomes, evidence that humans are still evolving from massive genome projects, and studies that infect humans with diseases on purpose. Warren Cornwall joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss an intense study of slum-dwelling rats. [Image: Mauricio Susin] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Our newest human relative, busting human sniff myths, and the greenhouse gas that could slow global warming By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:30:00 -0400 This week we have stories on ancient hominids that may have coexisted with early modern humans, methane seeps in the Arctic that could slow global warming, and understanding color without words with Online News Intern Lindzi Wessel. John McGann joins Sarah Crespi to discuss long-standing myths about our ability to smell. It turns out people are probably a lot better at detecting odors than scientists thought! Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Streluk/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Slowly retiring chimps, tanning at the cellular level, and plumbing magma’s secrets By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:30:00 -0400 This week we have stories on why it’s taking so long for research chimps to retire, boosting melanin for a sun-free tan, and tracking a mouse trail to find liars online with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Allison Rubin about what we can learn from zircon crystals outside of a volcano about how long hot magma hangs out under a volcano. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Project Chimps; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Mysteriously male crocodiles, the future of negotiating AIs, and atomic bonding between the United States and China By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:00:00 -0400 This week we hear stories on involving more AIs in negotiations, tiny algae that might be responsible for killing some (not all) dinosaurs, and a chemical intended to make farm fish grow faster that may be also be causing one area’s crocodile population to skew male—with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Rich Stone about being on the scene for a joint U.S.-China mission to remove bomb-grade fuel from a nuclear reactor in Ghana. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image:Chad Sparkes; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping jellyfish, and counting a language’s words for colors By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:00:00 -0400 This week we hear stories on animal hoarding, how different languages have different numbers of colors, and how to tell a wakeful jellyfish from a sleeping one with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic, Brice Russ, and Sarah Crespi. Andrew Wagner talks to Karl-Heinz Kampert about a long-term study of the cosmic rays blasting our planet. After analyzing 30,000 high-energy rays, it turns out some are coming from outside the Milky Way. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Doug Letterman/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Furiously beating bat hearts, giant migrating wombats, and puzzling out preprint publishing By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:30:00 -0400 This week we hear stories on how a bat varies its heart rate to avoid starving, giant wombatlike creatures that once migrated across Australia, and the downsides of bedbugs’ preference for dirty laundry with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks Jocelyn Kaiser about her guide to preprint servers for biologists—what they are, how they are used, and why some people are worried about preprint publishing’s rising popularity. For our monthly book segment, Jen Golbeck talks to author Sandra Postel about her book, Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: tap10/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Legendary Viking crystals, and how to put an octopus to sleep By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:00:00 -0400 A millennium ago, Viking navigators may have used crystals known as “sunstones” to navigate between Norway and Greenland. Sarah Crespi talks with Online News Editor David Grimm about how one might use a crystal to figure out where they are. Sarah also interviews freelancer Danna Staaf about her piece on sedating cephalopods. Until recently, researchers working with octopuses and squids faced the dilemma of not knowing whether the animals were truly sedated or whether only their ability to respond had been suppressed. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Nicholas Roerich, Guests from Overseas; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article
sl Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:45:00 -0500 Orla Smith, editor of Science Translational Medicine joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about what has changed in the past 10 years of microbiome research, what’s getting close to being useful in treatment, and how strong, exactly, the research is behind those probiotic yogurts. When you’re sick, sleeping is restorative—it helps your body recover from nasty infections. Meagan Cantwell speaks with Amita Sehgal, professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, about the process of discovering a gene in fruit flies that links sleep and immune function. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:30:00 -0500 In our first segment from the annual meeting of AAAS (Science’s publisher) in Washington, D.C., host Sarah Crespi talks with Cathy Binger of University of New Mexico in Albuquerque about her session on the role of modern technology, such as iPads and apps, in helping people with communication disorders. It turns out that there’s no killer app, but some devices do help normalize assistive technology for kids. Also this week, freelance journalist Sarah Scoles joins Sarah Crespi to talk about bringing together satellite imaging, machine learning, and nonprofits to put a stop to modern-day slavery. In our monthly books segment, books editor Valerie Thompson talks with Judy Grisel about her book Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, including discussions of Gisel’s personal experience with addiction and how it has informed her research as a neuroscientist. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: ILO in Asia and the Pacific/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Clues that the medieval plague swept into sub-Saharan Africa and evidence humans hunted and butchered giant ground sloths 12,000 years ago By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:15:00 -0500 New archaeological evidence suggests the same black plague that decimated Europe also took its toll on sub-Saharan Africa. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade about diverse medieval sub-Saharan cities that shrank or even disappeared around the same time the plague was stalking Europe. In a second archaeological story, Meagan Cantwell talks with Gustavo Politis, professor of archaeology at the National University of Central Buenos Aires and the National University of La Plata, about new radiocarbon dates for giant ground sloth remains found in the Argentine archaeological site Campo Laborde. The team’s new dates suggest humans hunted and butchered ground sloths in the late Pleistocene, about 12,500 years ago. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:30:00 -0400 A single factory in Malaysia supplies about 10% of the world’s rare earth oxides, used in everything from cellphones to lasers to missiles. Controversy over the final resting place for the slightly radioactive byproducts has pushed the plant to the brink of closure. Host Meagan Cantwell talks with freelance writer Yao Hua Law about calls to ship the waste back to where it was originally mined in Australia, and how stopping production in Malaysia would mean almost all rare earth production would take place in China. In another global trade story, host Sarah Crespi talks with freelance writer Sam Kean about close links between the slave trade and early naturalists’ efforts to catalog the world’s flora and fauna. Today, historians and museums are just starting to come to grips with the often-ignored relationships between slavers and scientists. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Ads on this show: Kolabtree and MagellanTV Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: James Petiver, 1695; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Privacy concerns slow Facebook studies, and how human fertility depends on chromosome counts By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:30:00 -0400 On this week’s show, Senior News Correspondent Jeffrey Mervis talks with host Sarah Crespi about a stalled Facebook plan to release user data to social scientists who want to study the site’s role in elections. Sarah also talks with Jennifer Gruhn, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Copenhagen Center for Chromosome Stability, about counting chromosomes in human egg cells. It turns out that cell division errors that cause too many or too few chromosomes to remain in the egg may shape human fertility over our reproductive lives. Finally, in this month’s book segment, Kiki Sanford talks with Daniel Navon about his book Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy. Visit the books blog for more author interviews: Books et al. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: MOVA Globes; The Tangled Tree by David Quammen Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Full Article Scientific Community
sl How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:00:00 -0400 Measles is a dangerous infection that can kill. As many as 100,000 people die from the disease each year. For those who survive infection, the virus leaves a lasting mark—it appears to wipe out the immune system’s memory. News Intern Eva Fredrick joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a pair of studies that looked at how this happens in children’s immune systems. Read the related studies in Science and Science Immunology. In our second segment this week, Sarah talks with Todd Thompson, of Ohio State University in Columbus, about his effort to find a small black hole in a binary pair with a red giant star. Usually black holes are detected because they are accruing matter and as the matter interacts with the black hole, x-rays are released. Without this flashy signal, black hole detection gets much harder. Astronomers must look for the gravitational influence of the black holes on nearby stars—which is easier to spot when the black hole is massive. Thompson talks with Sarah about a new approach to finding small, noninteracting black holes. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: Bayer Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Full Article Scientific Community
sl Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:45:00 -0500 Most historical accounts of slavery were written by colonists and planters. Researchers are now using the tools of archaeology to learn more about the day-to-day lives of enslaved Africans—how they survived the conditions of slavery, how they participated in local economies, and how they maintained their own agency. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade about a Caribbean archaeology project based on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and launched by the founders of the Society for Black Archaeologists that aims to unearth these details. Watch a related video here. Sarah also talks with Jonathan Schulz, a professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, about a role for the medieval Roman Catholic Church in so-called WEIRD psychology—western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic. The bulk of psychology experiments have used participants that could be described as WEIRD, and according to many psychological measures, WEIRD subjects tend to have some extreme traits, like a stronger tendency toward individuality and more friendliness with strangers. Schulz and colleagues used historical maps and measures of kinship structure to tie these traits to strict marriage rules enforced by the medieval Catholic Church in Western Europe. Read related commentary. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: Bayer; KiwiCo Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Full Article Scientific Community
sl Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music By traffic.omny.fm Published On :: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:30:00 -0500 You may have seen the aftermath of a landslide, driving along a twisty mountain road—a scattering of rocks and scree impinging on the pavement. And up until now, that’s pretty much how scientists have tracked landslides—roadside observations and spotty satellite images. Now, researchers are hoping to track landslides systematically by instrumenting an entire national park in Taiwan. The park is riddled with landslides—so much so that visitors wear helmets. Host Sarah Crespi talks with one of those visitors—freelance science journalist Katherine Kornei—about what we can learn from landslides. In a second rocking segment, Sarah also talks with Manvir Singh about the universality of music. His team asked the big questions in a Science paper out this week: Do all societies make music? What are the common elements that can be picked out from songs worldwide? Sarah and Manvir listen to songs and talk about what love ballads and lullabies have in common, regardless of their culture of origin. Explore the music database. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: Bayer; KiwiCo; McDonalds Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Martin Lewinson/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Full Article Scientific Community
sl Chiral separations with crosslinked cellulose derivatives attached onto hybrid silica monolith particles via thiol-ene click reaction By feeds.rsc.org Published On :: Anal. Methods, 2020, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D0AY00772B, PaperYuhong Zhou, Qian Liang, Zhilun Zhang, Zhaodi Wang, Mingxian HuangHybrid silica monolith containing vinyl groups was synthesized by a sol-gel method and then ground and treated, yielding silica particles with 3-5 μm in particles size and 10-20 nm in...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
sl A sensitive HPLC-FL method to simultaneously determine febuxostat and diclofenac in rat plasma: assessment of metabolic drug interactions in vitro and in vivo By feeds.rsc.org Published On :: Anal. Methods, 2020, 12,2166-2175DOI: 10.1039/D0AY00471E, PaperDong-Gyun Han, Kyu-Sang Kim, Seong-Wook Seo, Young Mee Baek, Yunjin Jung, Dae-Duk Kim, In-Soo YoonWe developed a sensitive, simple and validated HPLC-FL method for simultaneous determination of FEB and DIC in rat plasma. The method requires a relatively small volume of sample, has simple sample preparation and excellent sensitivity.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
sl Translational Recurrences [electronic resource] : From Mathematical Theory to Real-World Applications / edited by Norbert Marwan, Michael Riley, Alessandro Giuliani, Charles L. Webber, Jr By darius.uleth.ca Published On :: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014 Full Article
sl Reversing binding sensitivity to A147T translocator protein By feeds.rsc.org Published On :: RSC Med. Chem., 2020, 11,511-517DOI: 10.1039/C9MD00580C, Research ArticleSophie V. Vo, Samuel D. Banister, Isaac Freelander, Eryn L. Werry, Tristan A. Reekie, Lars M. Ittner, Michael KassiouA loss in binding affinity at A147T relative to WT TSPO is seen with most TSPO ligands. Provision of hydrogen-bonding opportunities on indole carboxamides rescues this loss in affinity.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry Full Article
sl 18th Conference of Power System Engineering, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics: 11-13 June 2019, Pilsen, Czech Republic / editors, Lukáš Richter, Michal Volf, Michaela Vacková, Petr Pavlíček and Miroslav Krejčí By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 06:23:59 EDT Online Resource Full Article
sl Seismic loads: guide to the seismic provisions of ASCE 7-16 / Finley A. Charney, Ph.D., P.E., Thomas F. Heausler, P.E., S.E., Justin D. Marshall, Ph.D., P.E By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 06:19:51 EDT Online Resource Full Article
sl The making of you: the incredible journey from cell to human / Katharina Vestre ; translated from Norwegian by Matt Bagguley ; illustrations by Linnea Vestre By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 06:19:51 EDT Dewey Library - RG613.V4713 2019 Full Article
sl Morituris felicem vitae finem, Mortuis beatem sine fine vitam Silete, Confoederati Amici; quid emortuum Corniculum vestris auribus triste insonet, avidi auscultate, habet secreta ... Translatus est de vita ad mortem ... P. Tobias Herele ... By reader.digitale-sammlungen.de Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:12:02 +0100 Autor: Herele, Tobias Erschienen 1684 BSB-Signatur Res/2 Bavar. 980,2#Beibd.205 URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb11121330-5 URL: http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb11121330_00001.html/ Full Article
sl Déjà vu and the end of history / Paolo Virno ; translated by David Broder By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Virno, Paolo, 1952- Full Article
sl In God's path : the Arab conquests and the creation of an Islamic empire / Robert G. Hoyland By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Hoyland, Robert G., 1966- author Full Article
sl The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Achcar, Gilbert Full Article
sl Stalin's guerrillas : Soviet partisans in World War II / Kenneth Slepyan By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Slepyan, Kenneth Full Article
sl Islamic civilization in thirty lives : the first 1,000 years / Chase F. Robinson By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Robinson, Chase F., author Full Article
sl The comfort women : historical, political, legal and moral perspectives / Kumagai Naoko ; translated by David Noble By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Kumagai, Naoko, author Full Article
sl Assyria : the imperial mission / Mario Liverani ; translated by Andrea Trameri and Jonathan Valk By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Liverani, Mario, author Full Article
sl Crusade and Jihad : the thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the global north / William R. Polk By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Polk, William R. (William Roe), 1929- author Full Article
sl Greeks, Romans, Germans : how the Nazis usurped Europe's classical past / Johann Chapoutot ; translated by Richard R. Nybakken By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Chapoutot, Johann, author Full Article
sl Trial by slander : a background to the Independent State of Croatia, and an account of the Anti-Croatian Campaign in Australia / by Les Shaw By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Shaw, Les Full Article
sl Bandits, prophets, & messiahs : popular movements in the time of Jesus / Richard A. Horsley ; with John S. Hanson By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Horsley, Richard A., author Full Article
sl Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South / Keri Leigh Merritt By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Merritt, Keri Leigh, 1980- author Full Article
sl Reflections of a philosophical voyager : Nicolas Baudin letter to Philip Gidley King, 24 December 1802 / edited & translated by Jean Fornasiero By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Full Article
sl The dark abyss of time : archaeology and memory / Laurent Olivier ; translated by Arthur Greenspan By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Olivier, Laurent, 1958- author Full Article
sl Islamic empires : fifteen cities that define a civilization / Justin Marozzi By prospero.murdoch.edu.au Published On :: Marozzi, Justin, 1970- author Full Article
sl CRS Employment Opportunities: Legislative Attorney (Communications Law) By www.usajobs.gov Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:50:37 -0600 CRS is accepting applications for a Legislative Attorney (Communications Law), GS-13 until December 12, 2019. Click here for more information. Full Article
sl CRS Employment Opportunities: Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process By www.usajobs.gov Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:50:02 -0500 CRS is accepting applications for an Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process, GS-12 until April 17, 2020. Click here for more information. Full Article
sl CRS Employment Opportunities: Legislative Data Specialist By www.usajobs.gov Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:08:40 -0500 CRS is accepting applications for a Legislative Data Specialist, GS-11 until May 4, 2020. Click here for more information. Full Article
sl Subscribe to the Preaching Today Newsletter By feeds.christianitytoday.com Published On :: May 9, 2020 Preaching Today provides pastors and preachers sermon prep help with sermon illustrations, sermons, sermon ideas, and preaching articles. Full Article
sl Car Dealership Opens Parking Lot for Homeless Sleeping in Cars By feeds.christianitytoday.com Published On :: James Charles decided that he wanted to help alleviate the problem of people without homes. Lacking access to any kind of large-scale shelter, Charles did the next best thing and used what he owned--a car dealership. In a Facebook post for his Kiplin Auto Group, Charles announced that he was offering ... Full Article
sl Indian Football: AIFF suggests ISL, I-League follow AFC’s foreign player rule from 2021-’22 season By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:15:51 +0000 The members of the All India Football Federation Technical Committee, chaired by Shyam Thapa, discussed the idea through video-conferencing on Friday. Full Article
sl P Chidambaram criticises Centre’s transport plans for migrants, says it’s hopelessly belated By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:54:55 +0000 The Congress leader said the Centre seemed oblivious that thousands of migrant workers had started walking to their home states. Full Article