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Battle Damage - You Asked for It! More Insane Tech Tests

You commented, we listened. Find out if your gadget was chosen as one of our next tech tests on Battle Damage.




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Jeff 1000 - 9 Questions with David Arquette (Just Don’t Ask About Robots)

Things take a turn during a "Jeff 1000” shoot when David Arquette takes time to do a behind-the-scenes interview. Everything starts off smoothly, but the second David is asked about his robot co-star Jeff, all hell breaks loose with David comparing Jeff to a second-rate WALL-E.




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Behind the Mask: Darth Vader at Comic Con

You saw him choke Comic Con goers at this year's SDCC. Get to know cosplayer Dupree Jones as he shows us what it takes to transform into Darth Vader.




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Beating Up James Bond is No Easy Task

“We beat the hell out of each other for weeks.” James Bond stars, Dave Bautista and 007 himself, Daniel Craig, explain how they ended up with a fractured nose and an emergency knee surgery by not holding back during the fight sequences in the new “Spectre” film.




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5-Year-Olds Ask an Astronaut What It’s Like to Be in Outer Space

Why don’t space shuttles float away? How do you know when to go to sleep? Astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions about life in space from a few intrepid kindergartners.




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Designers Reimagine the Task Light—And It’s Gorgeous

You probably don’t give your lamp much thought when you switch it on. But the San Francisco design firm Box Clever recently spent two years thinking about a lamp perfect for designers.




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Sacramento Is About to Have the Most High-Tech Basketball Stadium

When the new Kings basketball stadium is completed this fall, they hope it’ll be so outrageously technologically advanced that it will even wow fans from Silicon Valley.




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Unmasking the Secrets That Ancient Mummies Hold

Centuries ago, middle-class Egyptians buried their mummies with masks made out of recycled papyrus. Many of those sheets were covered in Ancient Greek text, which is hard to read without destroying the masks. Now a team of imagining experts are finding ways to read the texts without pulling the ancient artifacts apart.




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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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Does Your Phone's Blue Light Dimmer Really Work? Let's Ask Science

Your phone might automatically dim its blue light at night. But does this really help you fall asleep?




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Tech Support - LaVar Ball Answers Basketball Questions From Twitter

LaVar Ball uses the power of Twitter to answer some common questions about basketball. Who has the worst attitude in NBA history? What's the least cool NBA jersey? What's with the Golden State Warriors' facial hair? Check out "Ball in the Family" on Facebook Watch. New episodes air Sundays.




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WIRED25: The Future of Work With Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO of TaskRabbit

WIRED editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson spoke with Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO of TaskRabbit, about the future of work at WIRED's 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.




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Ask WIRED: Our Reporters Answer Your Questions

We asked WIRED readers and subscribers to send us their questions. Are we being constantly watched through our face cams? What is the current status of Net Neutrality? How do I get into Area 51? WIRED's Senior Writer, Robbie Gonzalez; Senior Associate Editor, Arielle Pardes; and Senior Correspondent, Peter Rubin, answer these questions and many more.




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Atoms and photons and quanta, oh my! : ask the physicist about atomic, molecular, and quantum physics / F. Todd Baker

Baker, F. Todd, 1942- author




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Mine ventilation: proceedings of the tenth US/North American Mine Ventilation Symposium, 16-19 May 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA / edited by R. Ganguli, S. Bandopadhyay

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Advances in computer games: 14th International Conference, ACG 2015, Leiden, the Netherlands, July 1-3, 2015, Revised selected papers / Aske Plaat, H. Jaap van den Herik, Walter Kosters (eds.)

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Nitin Gadkari asks traders to take loan in dollars, keep their balance sheets clean

The Union minister also offered them some remedies that are likely to earn money and will help them in increasing their business.




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Half-metallic materials and their properties / C.Y. Fong, J.E. Pask, L.H. Yang

Hayden Library - TA481.F66 2013






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Video: Hina Khan shows how to wear the mask correctly

Hina Khan's tutorial on how to wear the mask right in this video.




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Coming out of nowhere: Alaska homestead poems / Linda Schandelmeier

Dewey Library - PS3619.C32575 A6 2018




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The dolphin letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and their circle / edited by Saskia Hamilton

Dewey Library - PS3515.A5672 Z48 2019




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The new Walt Whitman studies / edited by Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Dewey Library - PS3238.N47 2020




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23 arrested for not wearing masks in public places

23 arrested for not wearing masks in public places




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Global fashion brands tap India for face masks

International brands have begun sharing prototypes of fashion masks in cotton and blends with Indian suppliers who are awaiting a nod from the Centre to export non-surgical masks.




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Covid-19 Impact: Stylish face mask is the new focal accessory of India’s top fashion brands

Several apparel makers and fast-moving consumer goods companies had earlier stepped up to produce medical-grade masks as a philanthropic act when Covid-19 struck but now it is apparent that the pandemic is set to alter lifestyles for at least some time to come.




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Masks to help fashion brands beat pandemic blues

Several apparel makers and fast-moving consumer goods companies had earlier stepped up to produce medical-grade masks as a philanthropic act when Covid-19 struck but now it is apparent that the pandemic is set to alter lifestyles for at least some time to come.




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Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications: Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018 / Hesham M. El-Askary, Saro Lee, Essam Heggy, Biswajeet Pradhan, editors

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Understanding values work: institutional perspectives in organizations and leadership / Harald Askeland, Gry Espedal, Beate Jelstad Løvaas, Stephen Sirris, editors

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Law Library: News & Events: Ask-a-Librarian: We Are Here for You!

If you’ve never taken advantage of our Ask-a-Librarian service, allow us to introduce you!

Through the Library's online reference service, the Law Library can help you with:

  • Legal and legislative research assistance for US federal and state, foreign, international, and comparative law
  • Queries on resources unique to the Law Library of Congress

Learn more about this FREE service on this guest post by Chief of the Public Services Division Andrew Winston.




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[ASAP] Rare Earth Ion Encapsulated Basket-like {Gd?P<sub>6</sub>Mo<sup>V</sup><sub>2</sub>Mo<sup>VI</sup><sub>16</sub>O<sub>73</sub>} Cage as Efficient Electrochemical Sensor and Fluo

Crystal Growth & Design
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00211




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Chelyabinsk superbolide / Nick Gorkavyi, Alexander Dudorov, Sergey Taskaev, editors

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Lyman-alpha as an astrophysical and cosmological tool: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 46 / Mark Dijkstra, J. Xavier Prochaska, Masami Ouchi, Matthew Hayes ; Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy ; edited by Anne Verhamme, Pierre North, Sebastiano Cantalu

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Zwicky: the outcast genius who unmasked the universe / John Johnson, Jr

Hayden Library - QB460.72.Z35 J64 2019




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Centre asks generating companies to reduce coal import, source domestic fuel

The development assumes significance in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday giving directions to target thermal coal import substitution, particularly when a huge coal stock inventory is available in the country this year.




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1302-2019 - IEEE Guide for the Electromagnetic Characterization of Conductive Gaskets in the Frequency Range of DC to 40 GHz [electronic journal].




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Economics and the environment / Eban S. Goodstein (Bard College), Stephen Polasky (University of Minnesota)

Goodstein, Eban S., 1960- author




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Anaerobic membrane bioreactors for sustainable wastewater treatment / by Lutgarde Raskin [and others]

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The Veterans History Project Asks ‘Which One Do You Love Most?’

The Veterans History Project (VHP) is asking all LC staff and the general public to help them select images for their new bookmarks. Go to Folklife Today to view 10 images pulled from the VHP collection. Then tell VHP which one you love most either in the blog’s comments section, by email at vohp@loc.gov or in person in room LJ-G51 from now until March 1. VHP will reveal the chosen images on March 15.


The mission of the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center is to collect, preserve and make accessible the personal accounts of U.S. veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. Learn more at http://www.loc.gov/vets. Share your exciting VHP initiatives, programs, events and news stories with VHP to be considered for a future RSS. Email vohp@loc.gov and place “My VHP RSS Story” in the subject line.


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Northern star: J.S. Plaskett / R. Peter Broughton ; with a foreword by James E. Hesser

Hayden Library - QB36.P55 B76 2018




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Conceptions of justice from Islam to the present / Hossein Askari and Abbas Mirakhor

Online Resource




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The supernatural in society, culture, and history / edited by Dennis Waskul and Marc Eaton

Hayden Library - BL100.S87 2018




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The neocortex / edited by Wolf Singer, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and Pasko Rakic

Dewey Library - QP383.12.N44 2019




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Saskia Sassen on "before method" [electronic resource]




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Kangpokpi asks passenger vehicles not to stop midway

Kangpokpi asks passenger vehicles not to stop midway




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My blue piano / Else Lasker-Schüler ; poems translated from the German by Brooks Haxton

Hayden Library - PT2623.A76 A2 2015




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The storyteller: tales out of loneliness / Walter Benjamin ; with illustrations by Paul Klee ; translated and edited by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski

Hayden Library - PT2603.E455 A2 2016




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Hyperion, or, The hermit in Greece / by Friedrich Hölderlin ; translated and with an afterword by Howard Gaskill

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Java : an introduction to problem solving & programming / Walter Savitch (University of California, San Diego) ; contributor, Kenrick Mock (University of Alaska Anchorage)

Savitch, Walter J., 1943- author