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A designer's research manual : succeed in design by knowing your clients and what they really need / Jenn + Ken Visocky O'Grady
Design revolution : 100 products that are changing people's lives / Emily Pilloton ; foreword by Allan Chochinov
Interactive computer graphics : a top-down approach with WebGL / Edward Angel (University of New Mexico), Dave Shreiner (ARM, Inc.) ; Global edition contributions by Arup Bhattacharya, Soumen Mukherjee (RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata)
The physicist & the philosopher : Einstein, Bergson, and the debate that changed our understanding of time / Jimena Canales
Critical thinking : your guide to effective argument, successful analysis & independent study / Tom Chatfield
Feeling our feelings : what philosophers think and people know / by Eva Brann
Online hate and harmful content: cross-national perspectives / Teo Keipi, Matti Näsi, Atte Oksanen, and Pekka Räsänen
Enduring bonds: inequality, marriage, parenting, and everything else that makes families great and terrible / Philip N. Cohen
That f word: growing up feminist in Aotearoa / Lizzie Marvelly
Anti-fandom: dislike and hate in the digital age / edited by Melissa A. Click
Healing from hate: how young men get into--and out of--violent extremism / Michael Kimmel
Facile assemble of 2D α-zirconium phosphate supported silver nanoparticles: superior and recyclable catalysis
DOI: 10.1039/D0NJ01378A, Paper
A novel, efficient and durable ZrP@PDA/Ag nanocatalyst was prepared via facile reduction and deposition of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on two dimensional (2D) α-zirconium phosphate (ZrP) nanosheets using bio-inspired dopamine chemistry....
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Manhattan Housing Stock, 1900
Conceived by housing reformer Lawrence Veiller and produced in conjunction with the Charity Organization Society, the Tenement House Exhibition opened on Fifth Avenue near 38th Street in February 1900. The exhibition was an innovative, groundbreaking way to educate the public about substandard housing in New York City. It resonated with people in a way that...
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Wiring Manhattan: Sterling Communications and Cable Television in New York City
Between 1945 and 1960 the number of television sets in use in the United States rose from a few thousand to approximately 60 million. Although many of the programs shown originated in New York City, many of Gotham’s denizens had to endure a steadily degrading signal reception. The cause: new buildings in the vertically growing...
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The Druids of Manhattan
Twice at dusk every spring and summer, the setting sun lines up with Manhattan’s street grid, illuminating the city with the otherworldly spectacle known as Manhattanhenge. The phenomenon is a byproduct of the design for Manhattan outlined in the 1811 Commissioners’ Plan, the rectilinear grid of avenues running north/south with intersecting streets running east/west. The...
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What To Do With These TIME Cover Originals?
Time Executive Editor J. Dana Tasker handled the retention or disposition of magazine cover art from around 1945 to 1953. While Time only acquired the first publication rights from the artists when commissioning a cover, Time frequently purchased and sent as a gift, or presented, the cover art to either the subject or a related...
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“A Correct and Perfect Recollection”: David Grim’s Map of Prerevolutionary Manhattan
Little is known about long-lived David Grim (1737-1826) outside of the brief personal account of his life held by the New-York Historical Society Library. What can be said is that his memory was sound. A tavern keeper, merchant, and owner of Hessian’s Coffee House from 1767 to 1789, Grim sought to leave behind more than an...
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Beach Pneumatic Transit: The 1870 Subway That Could Have Been?
Could a subway station have a grand piano, chandeliers, and a fountain with goldfish to boot? Alfred Ely Beach certainly believed so in the years following the Civil War, and, in fact, he was not deterred in creating such a subway, one that debuted 150 years ago, on February 26, 1870. Beach (1826-1896) was an...
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NextGen Seeks Programs that Help People with Complex Challenges Find Work
Despite recent improvements in the overall job market, many individuals – including many individuals with disabilities – continue to face obstacles to gainful employment and economic independence.
Tourism, religion and pilgrimage in Jerusalem / Kobi Cohen-Hattab and Noam Shoval
Current and future regulatory requirements that impact on the safe commercial and recreational use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and associated systems / Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Referencess Leg
Legislative exemptions that allow faith-based educational institutions to discriminate against students, teachers and staff / The Senate, Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee
That will never work: the birth of Netflix and the amazing life of an idea / Marc Randolph
Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS: lessons and results from a binational consortium / David Ginley, Kamanio Chattopadhyay, editors
The citizen's guide to climate success: overcoming myths that hinder progress / Mark Jaccard, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Recent developments in mechatronics and intelligent robotics: proceedings of ICMIR 2019 / Srikanta Patnaik, John Wang, Zhengtao, Nilanjan Dey, editors
What Makes a Good President?
Author and historian Alan Brinkley shares his thoughts on the alchemy of luck and chance in the Oval Office.
The Wooden Teeth That Weren't
At his inauguration, George Washington had just one tooth left. Mount Vernon curator Laura Simo describes history’s most famous set of dentures.
We'll Drink to That
Alcohol quenched nearly every thirst there was in colonial America. Author Ed Crews explains why the preference existed and how the prevailing medical wisdom supported it.
What if the British had Won?
In 1776, England had every expectation of winning a war with her upstart American colonies, and rightly so. And what if the war had gone their way? This is the premise of a class of fiction called “alternate history,” and Director of Publications Paul Aron has found some food for thought in its reimagined histories.
Finding Connections: Chatauqua meets Williamsburg
The Revolutionary City finds resonance and relevance across the country and around the world in a vibrant partnership with the Chautauqua Institution of New York. “We walk in the same intellectual waters,” says Colonial Williamsburg Foundation President Colin Campbell in this interview with Chautauqua’s President Tom Becker.
Who’s that Marching Man?
For Drum Major Lance Pedigo, leading comes naturally. All year round and at any time of day, chances are good that you’ll see him marching at the front of the Fifes and Drums, keeping time and metering the pace of the corps of young men and women who make the music of history ring through […]
Cancer: That Painful and Lingering Disorder
Options for cancer detection and treatment were few in the 18th century. Medical Historian Sharon Cotner lays out some of the common practices in this week’s show.
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We’re re-imagining what a conference looks like when it’s remote-only
As you can imagine for folks in the business of producing conferences the last few weeks have resulted in a great deal of thinking…. and rethinking of our plans for our upcoming events, particularly Code and Code Leaders in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the meme goes–”life comes at you fast”. Just 7 days ago we wrote to […]
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