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Technology, activism, and social justice in a digital age / edited by John G. McNutt

Browsery HM851.T42995 2018




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Grow great vegetables in Massachusetts / Marie Iannotti

Browsery SB321.5.M4 I26 2019




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The desert and its seed / Jorge Barón Biza ; translated from the Spanish by Camilo Ramirez ; afterword by Nora Avaro

Browsery PQ7798.12.A678 D4713 2018




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The scientific journal: authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century / Alex Csiszar

Browsery Q223.C85 2018




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

Browsery E185.86.J332 2019




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The devil's dinner: a gastronomic and cultural history of chili peppers / Stuart Walton

Browsery SB307.P4 W35 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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More with less: whole food cooking made irresistibly simple / Jodi Moreno

Browsery TX833.5.M674 2018




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Tonic and balm: a novel / Stephanie Allen

Browsery PS3601.L436 T66 2019




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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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A quick & easy guide to they/them pronouns / Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson ; [lettered by Crank! ; edited by Ari Yarwood]

Browsery P279.B64 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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In vivo: a phenomenology of life-defining moments / Gabor Csepregi

Browsery BD431.C74 2019




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Stop being reasonable / Eleanor Gordon-Smith

Browsery BD215.G67 2019




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Nobody's girl Friday: the women who ran Hollywood / J.E. Smyth

Browsery PN1995.9.W6 S639 2018




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Patron saints of nothing / Randy Ribay

Browsery PZ7.1.R5 Pat 2019




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Lesser dragons: minority peoples of China / Michael Dillon

Browsery DS730.D55 2018




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Searching for Sylvie Lee: a novel / Jean Kwok

Browsery PS3611.W65 S43 2019




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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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Genetics in the madhouse: the unknown history of human heredity / Theodore M. Porter

Browsery HQ755.35.P67 2018




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Searching for inter-racial, interstitial, intersectional, and interstates meeting spaces: Africa vs North America / edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Browsery PN6071.A45 S437 2018




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Tambora and the year without a summer: how a volcano plunged the world into crisis / Wolfgang Behringer ; translated by Pamela Selwyn

Browsery QE523.T285 B4413 2019




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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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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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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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Optics technology [electronic resource].

Publisher Guildford [England] : IPC Science and Technology Press,
Location World Wide Web
Call No. QC350




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

Online Resource




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Mathematical topics on representations of ordered structures and utility theory: essays in honor of Professor Ghanshyam B. Mehta / Gianni Bosi, María J. Campión, Juan C. Candeal, Esteban Indurain, editors

Online Resource




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Difference equations for scientists and engineering: interdisciplinary difference equations / Michael A. Radin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Dewey Library - QA431.R3255 2019




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Stabilization of programmed motion / E. Ya. Smirnov

Online Resource




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Subplane covered nets / Norman L. Johnson

Online Resource




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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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Probability theory and statistical inference: empirical modelling with observational data / Aris Spanos

Dewey Library - QA273.S6875 2019




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Bifurcation and stability in nonlinear dynamical systems / Albert C.J. Luo

Online Resource




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Probability and statistics for data science: math + R + data / Norman Matloff

Dewey Library - QA273.M38495 2020




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Morse index of solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations / Lucio Damascelli and Filomena Pacella

Dewey Library - QA614.5.D36 2019




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Nonsmooth Lyapunov analysis in finite and infinite dimensions Yury Orlov

Online Resource




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Understanding advanced statistical methods / Peter H. Westfall, Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences, Texas Tech University, USA, Kevin S.S. Henning, Department of Economics and International Business, Sam Houston State University, USA

Online Resource




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Lectures on Nonsmooth Differential Geometry

Online Resource




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Inequivalent representations of canonical commutation and anti-commutation relations: representation-theoretical viewpoint for quantum phenomena / Asao Arai

Online Resource




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Nonlinear dynamics of structures, systems and devices: proceedings of the First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2019). / Walter Lacarbonara, Balakumar Balachandran, Jun Ma, J. A. Tenreiro Machado, Gabor Stepan, editors

Online Resource




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Metrology and theory of measurement / Valery A. Slaev, Anna G. Chunovkina, Leonid A. Mironovsky

Online Resource




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Algebraic graph theory: morphisms, monoids, and matrices / Ulrich Knauer and Kolja Knauer

Dewey Library - QA166.K53 2019




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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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Nonlinear dynamics and control: proceedings of the first International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2019). / Walter Lacarbonara, Balakumar Balachandran, Jun Ma, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Gabor Stepan, editors

Online Resource




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Zero-sum discrete-time Markov games with unknown disturbance distribution: discounted and average criteria / J. Adolfo Minjárez-Sosa

Online Resource




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Algebraic techniques and their use in describing and processing uncertainty: to the memory of Professor Elbert A. Walker / Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, editors

Online Resource




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New trends in nonlinear dynamics: proceedings of the first International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2019). / Walter Lacarbonara, Balakumar Balachandran, Jun Ma, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Gabor Stepan, editors

Online Resource




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Wavelet Analysis on the Sphere: Spheroidal Wavelets / Anouar Ben Mabrouk, Sabrine Arfaoui, Imen Rezgui

Online Resource




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Modulation spaces: with applications to pseudodifferential operators and nonlinear Schrödinger equations / Árpád Bényi, Kasso A. Okoudjou

Online Resource