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[ASAP] Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Cross-Coupling of Vinylethylene Carbonates with Ketimine Esters to Generate (<italic toggle="yes">Z</italic>)-Tri- and Tetra-substituted Allylic Amino Acid Derivatives

Organic Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01211




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[ASAP] Addition to “Selective Methylation of Amides, <italic toggle="yes">N</italic>-Heterocycles, Thiols, and Alcohols with Tetramethylammonium Fluoride”

Organic Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01524




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[ASAP] Benzo- and Thieno-Annulated Tetracenes: A One-Pot Synthesis via Cross-Dehydrogenative Annulation

Organic Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01244




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The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost / Peter Manseau

Browsery BF1027.M86 M36 2017




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Always another country: a memoir of exile and home / Sisonke Msimang

Browsery DT1972.M75 A3 2018




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Paper: material, medium and magic / edited by Neil Holt, Nicola von Velsen and Stephanie Jacobs ; with photographs by Thorsten Kern

Browsery TS1105.P134 2018




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Look both ways: a double journey along my grandmother's far-flung path / Katharine Coles

Browsery QE21.C65 2018




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Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich

Browsery HD6072.2.U52 L363 2019




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Grow great vegetables in Massachusetts / Marie Iannotti

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Study in black and white: photography, race, humor / Tanya Sheehan

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Survival math: notes on an all-American family / Mitchell S. Jackson

Browsery E185.86.J332 2019




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Wasteland: the Great War and the origins of modern horror / W. Scott Poole

Browsery PN1995.9.H6 P64 2018




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Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture / edited by Roxane Gay

Browsery HD6060.3.N68 2018b




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Saladish: a crunchier, grainier, herbier, heartier, tastier way with vegetables / Ilene Rosen with Donna Gelb ; photographs by Joseph de Leo ; illustrations by Emma Dibben

Browsery TX807.R7845 2018




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Stories we live and grow by: (re)telling our experiences as Muslim mothers and daughters / Muna Hussien Saleh

Browsery HQ755.85.S25 2019




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From the earth: world's great, rare and almost forgotten vegetables / Peter Gilmore ; photography by Brett Stevens

Browsery TX801.G55 2018




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Christopher Kimball's Milk Street: Tuesday nights / Christopher Kimball, J.M. Hirsch, Matthew Card, Michelle Locke, Jennifer Baldino Cox, and the editors and cooks of Milk Street ; photography by Connie Miller

Browsery TX833.5.K55 2018




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Say nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland / Patrick Radden Keefe

Browsery HV6574.G7 K44 2019




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Ottolenghi Simple: a cookbook / Yotam Ottolenghi, with Tara Wigley and Esme Howarth ; photographs by Jonathan Lovekin

Browsery TX833.5.O88 2018




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Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American cooking for big nights, weeknights, & every day / J.J. Johnson and Alexander Smalls ; with Veronica Chambers ; photography by Beatriz da Costa ; food styling by Roscoe Betsill

Browsery TX715.2.A47 J64 2018




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Black is the body: stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine / Emily Bernard

Browsery E185.97.B337 A3 2019




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Mind and matter: a life in math and football / John Urschel and Louisa Thomas

Browsery GV939.U78 A3 2019




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Patron saints of nothing / Randy Ribay

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Chicana movidas: new narratives of activism and feminism in the movement era / edited by Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell

Browsery E184.M5 C395 2018




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Julep: Southern cocktails refashioned / Alba Huerta & Marah Stets ; photography by Julie Soefer

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Basque country: a culinary journey through a food lover's paradise / Marti Buckley ; photographs by Simon Bajada

Browsery TX723.5.B36 B83 2018




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Bottom of the pot: Persian recipes and stories / Naz Deravian ; photography by Eric Wolfinger

Browsery TX725.I7 D47 2018




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The dog: a natural history / Ádám Miklósi with Tamás Faragó [and five others]

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One life at a time: an American doctor's memoir of AIDS in Botswana / Daniel Baxter

Browsery RC606.55.B38 A3 2018




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

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Scatternotes

Inspired by Brad’s recent post, here’s a scattering of thoughts I had about things other than conferences (I already wrote about those.)

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Amsterdam runs in idle, but it runs. That is good to see. As far as I know all cities run in idle right now, but are still running.

Civilization, society, and probably the economy as well, will not collapse. This is no extinction event, just a very bad spell. We will recover.

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We can give up on the rest of the school year. In Holland the central examinations are cancelled for the first time since 1945. I am in touch with a bunch of 15- and 16-year olds, children of friends and their friends, that I play D&D and board games with. I mainly think of them in this item. I also think of the students I’m currently teaching (online) at university, who are around 20 or so.

Once social distancing is over they will likely go into party mode for months on end. It will be very difficult to get them to pay attention to school or studies, and in my opinion we shouldn’t try. They’re right.

(Note to self: figure out how the people born around 1330 fared after the Black Death. Re-read Froissart.)

Also, I predict a slight uptick in teen abortions during summer.

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I’m teaching at university right now, and it really goes remarkably well. Still, this is the web faculty, which is the one faculty that’s most likely to adapt seamlessly to the current situation, since not only the students, but also the teachers are well at home on the web. Other faculties might likely have more problems — think a classics professor who never clicked on anything because Aristotle and Cicero didn’t either.

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Twitter is a cesspool. I don’t go there any more. I get very tired of all the enraged Americans in particular, who think that the specific problems of their country are the most important ones in the world. Not fair, maybe, but that’s how it is. Deal with your orange monkey yourself, we don’t have the time for it.

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I am supposed to be writing a book. I am currently not writing a book. But last week was very hard (teaching while cancelling a conference for the first time is not my favourite mix of activities), this week will be moderately busy, and we’ll see next week.

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Eric said websites should get static, because the React monstrosities that rule the web now are too fucking slow and expensive on mobile devices, and people need information right now.

We should rule that important government websites are not allowed to use JavaScript at all. That’ll solve the problem.

Sure, reality is more nuanced, good JavaScript use is possible yaddah yaddah, but right now is not the time for nuance. We need one simple rule that actually does away with the problem and that even idiots understand.

So skip the JavaScript entirely. It’s just fluff. Do away with it.

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I stopped paying taxes for the first time in my freelance career. Without taxes, I can probably hold on to November or December even without any extra income beyond what I already invoiced. This is definitely better than I initially thought, when I had to say goodbye to 1/3 of my annual income.

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My first online D&D session was an astounding success. I use Whereby and I swear by it. (Install app for iOS; rest just works in the browser.) I have a Pro account, so my room accepts 12 connections simultaneously.

I used two devices as cameras on the battle mat and the initiative tracker (I use a slightly modified version of this initiative system), and my laptop for an image of myself and to see the players. Rolz for die rolls, Whatsapp for private communication between DM and one player, and that’s it, really. I occasionally added a fourth hand cam with an extra phone, but I could do without if necessary.

The only problem is that it turns out to be impossible to turn off sound entirely on the iPad. There are online instructions that claim otherwise, but they don’t work. Still, just now I realised I should kill all video feeds to the iPad except for its own; I only use it as a glorified web cam.

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A lot is being said about mental health, and it’s all true. I also suffer a little bit — on average I get Corona about three times per day, but when I forget about it for five minutes my symptoms mysteriously disappear. I assume others have the same problem.

Many good points have already been made, and I’m not going to repeat them. The historian in me wants to make another point entirely.

Once upon a time, not so long ago, this feeling of permanent stress and helplessness, multiplied by two, three, or even four, was the natural state of being of just about all humans. Plagues, wars, famines, too-high taxes, they could all arrive at your doorstep, and in an average year at least one (most likely taxes) did.

People lived like this all the time. They were not aware that it is possible to live in any other way. The stress you’re feeling now is about one-half to one-quarter of what everybody felt all the time during most of human history, and before. As a result, all of them had PTSD. All of them. That’s why assholery is so widespread during all of history (except, in some parts of the world, for most of the people, for the last sixty years or so).

This is what we’re fighting for. We fight for our children to have the chance to live as we did, without constant fear.

Remember that. It gives you a goal to shoot for.

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Jeremy is right. Writing helps. I feel better already.




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Cladocera : family Eurycercidae (Branchiopoda : Cladocera :Anomopoda) / by Alexey A. Kotov & Eugeniya I. Bekker.

Location Circulation Collection
Call No. QL444.B83 K67 2016




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Polymer photochemistry [electronic resource].

Publisher London : Applied Science Publishers, c1981-
Location World Wide Web
Call No. QD380




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Bharat Biotech to spearhead CSIR-backed Covid-19 therapy efforts

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Photovoltaic systems : design, performance and applications / Wassila Issaadi, and Salim Issaadi, editors




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An introduction to the topological derivative method Antonio André Novotny, Jan Sokołowski

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Singularities of mappings: the local behaviour of smooth and complex analytic mappings / David Mond, Juan J. Nuño-Ballesteros

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Stabilization of programmed motion / E. Ya. Smirnov

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Polynomial one-cocycles for knots and closed braids / Thomas Fiedler

Dewey Library - QC20.7.K56 F54 2020




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A comprehensive introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry: from the Hamiltonian viewpoint / Andrei Agrachev (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste), Davide Barilari (Université Paris Diderot, Paris), Ugo Boscain (Centre Nat

Dewey Library - QA671.A47 2020




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Nonsmooth Lyapunov analysis in finite and infinite dimensions Yury Orlov

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Lectures on Nonsmooth Differential Geometry

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Abelian groups: structures and classifications / Carol Jacoby and Peter Loth

Dewey Library - QA180.J33 2019




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Numerical computations: theory and algorithms: Third International Conference, NUMTA 2019, Crotone, Italy, June 15-21, 2019, Revised selected papers. / edited by Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Dmitri E. Kvasov

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Handbook of homotopy theory / edited by Haynes Miller

Dewey Library - QA612.7.H36 2020




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Continuous and discontinuous piecewise-smooth one-dimensional maps: invariant sets and bifurcation structures / Viktor Avrutin (University of Stuttgart, Germany), Laura Gardini (University of Urbino, Italy), Irina Sushko (National Academy of Sciences of U

Dewey Library - QA614.8.A97 2019




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Numerical computations: third International Conference, NUMTA 2019, Crotone, Italy, June 15-21, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. / Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Dmitri E. Kvasov (eds.)

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Inverse Problems and Related Topics: Shanghai, China, October 12-14 2018 / Jin Cheng, Shuai Lu, Masahiro Yamamoto, editors

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