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As German as Kafka: identity and singularity in German literature around 1900 and 2000 / Lene Rock

Online Resource




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The capital / Robert Menasse ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

Dewey Library - PT2673.E577 H3813 2019




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Science Podcast - Canine origins, asexual bacterial adaptation, perovskite-based solar cells, and more (15 Nov 2013)

The origin of dog domestication in Europe with Robert Wayne; Richard Lenski tracks the adaptation of bacteria over 50,000 generations; Robert Services describes the prospects of a new contender in solar technology.




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Science Podcast - Replacing the Y chromosome, the future of U.S. missile defense, the brightest gamma-ray burst, and more (22 Nov 2013)

The minimum requirements for a Y chromosome with Monika Ward; Eliot Marshall checks in on U.S.'s missile interception program 30 years later; Sylvia Zhu breaks down observations from the brightest gamma-ray burst.




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Science Podcast - 2013 science books for kids, newlywed happiness, and authorship for sale in China (29 Nov 2013)

Talking kids' science books with Maria Sosa; predicting happiness in marriage with James McNulty; investigating questionable scholarly publishing practices in China with Mara Hvistendahl.




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Science Podcast - Noisy gene expression, the Tohoku-oki fault, and snake venom as a healer (6 Dec 2013)

Discussing the origin of transcriptional noise with Alvaro Sanchez; examining results from a drilling expedition at the Tohoku-oki fault; and looking at the potential benefits of snake venom with Kai Kupferschmidt.




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Science Podcast - Fear-enhanced odor detection, the latest from the Curiosity mission, and more (13 Dec 2013)

Fear-enhanced odor detection with John McGann; the latest from Curiosity’s hunt for traces of ancient life on Mars with Richard Kerr; and more.




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Science Podcast - Science's breakthrough of the year, runners-up and the top content from our daily news site (20 Dec 2013)

Notable highlights from the year in science; Science's breakthrough of the year and runners up.




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Science Podcast - Monstrous stone monuments of old and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (3 Jan 2014)

Britain's prehistoric stone monuments; stories from our daily news site.




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Science Podcast - Abundant bacterial vesicles in the ocean and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (10 Jan 2014)

Ocean-going vesicles; stories from our daily news site.




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Science Podcast - The modern hunter-gatherer gut, fast mountain weathering, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (17 Jan 2014)

Hunter-gatherer gut microbes, fast moving mountains, and a daily news roundup.




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Science Podcast - The genome of a transmissible dog cancer, the 10-year anniversary of Opportunity on Mars, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (24 Jan 2014)

The genome from a cancerous cell line that's been living for millenia, Opportinty's first 10 years on Mars, and a daily news roundup.




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Science Podcast - Quantum cryptography, salt's role in ecosystems, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (31 Jan 2014)

Should we worry more about quantum decryption in the future or the past, how salt's role as a micronutrient may effect the global carbon cycle, and a daily news roundup.




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Science Podcast - Tracing autism's roots in developlement and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (7 Feb 2014)

Tackling the role of early fetal brain development in autism; daily news stories with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Termite-inspired robots and cells with lots of extra genomes (14 Feb 2014)

Termite-inspired builder robots; why some mammalian cells have so many copies of their chromosomes.




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Science Podcast - Analyzing soundscapes and a news roundup (21 Feb 2014)

Eavesdropping on ecosystems; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Treating Down Syndrome and a news roundup (28 Feb 2014)

Treatment trials for Down Syndrome; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - 100 years of crystallography, linking malaria and climate, and a news roundup (7 Mar 2014)

Celebrating crystallography's centennial; how climate pushes malaria uphill; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Checking the hubris of big data harvests and a news roundup (14 Mar 2014)

What Google's Flu Trends can teach us about the pitfalls of big data; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Human odor discrimination and a news roundup (21 Mar 2014)

Human odor discrimination; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - A BRCA1 and breast cancer retrospective and a news roundup (28 Mar 2014)

BRCA1 turns 20; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Life under funding change and a news roundup (4 April 2014)

Money battles; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Biomechanics of fruitflies on the wing and a news roundup (11 April 2014)

Fruitflies take evasive action; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - A binary star system that includes a white dwarf and a news roundup (18 April 2014)

A distinctive binary star system; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Lessons from the tsetse fly genome and a news roundup (18 April 2014)

Tsetse fly genetics; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Climate and corn and a news roundup (2 May 2014)

Climate and crops; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast -Chine marine archaeology and a news roundup (9 May 2014)

Marine archaeology on the Silk Road; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Evading back-action in a quantum system and a news roundup (16 May 2014)

Measuring minute motions; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Science Podcast - Inequality and health and a news roundup (23 May 2014)

Inequality and health; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Oceans of plastic and a news roundup (11 Jul 2014)

The fate of plastic that ends up at sea; roundup of daily news with David Grimm.




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Monitoring 600 years of upwelling off the California coast (19 September 2014)

Hindcasting weather over the ocean near the California coast for 600 years.




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Measuring MOOCs

Justin Reich discusses the brief history of MOOCs and their impact on teaching online and offline. [Img: GARY WATERS/GETTYIMAGES]




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How comets change seasonally and a news roundup

Myrtha Hässig discusses variability and heterogeneity of the coma of comet 67P as part of Science's special issue on the Rosetta spacecraft. Meghna Sachdev discusses daily news stories. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: European Space Agency/Rosetta/NAVCAM]




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The Deepwater Horizon disaster: Five years later.

5th Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster: Marcia McNutt discusses the role of science in responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Warren Cornwall examines the state of ecological recovery 5 years later. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: © Bryan Tarnowski/Science Magazine]




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How the measles virus disables immunity to other diseases and a news roundup

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]




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3-parent gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases and a news roundup

Kimberly Dunham-Snary discusses the long-term health considerations of gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases and David Grimm talks about the smell of death, Mercury crashing, and animal IQ. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Image credit: Ben Gracewood CC BY-NC 2.0, via flickr]




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The consequences of mass extinction and a daily news roundup

Lauren Sallan discusses the consequences of a mass extinction event 359 million years ago on vertebrate body size; David Grimm talks about grandma's immune system, gambling on studies, and killer genes. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: Robert Nicholls]




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How our gut microbiota change as we age and a daily news roundup

Paul O'Toole discusses what happens to our gut microbes as we age; David Grimm talks about competent grandmas, our tilted moon, and gender in the brain. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Dhinakaran Gajavarathan CC BY 2.0, via flickr]




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Artificial intelligence programs that learn concepts based on just a few examples and a daily news roundup

Brenden Lake discusses a new computational model that rivals the human ability to learn new concepts based on just a single example; David Grimm talks about attracting cockroaches, searching for habitable planets, and looking to street dogs to learn about domestication. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: Rodrigo Basaure CC BY 2.0, via flickr]




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Podcast: Dancing dinosaurs, naked black holes, and more

What stripped an unusual black hole of its stars? Can a bipolar drug change ant behavior? And did dinosaurs dance to woo mates? Science's Online News Editor David Grimm chats about these stories and more with Science's Multimedia Producer Sarah Crespi. Plus,Science's Emily Underwood wades into the muddled world of migraine research, and Jessica Metcalf talks about using modern microbial means to track mammalian decomposition.




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Podcast: Wounded mammoths, brave birds, bright bulbs, and more

In this week’s podcast, David Grimm talks about brave birds, building a brighter light bulb, and changing our voice to influence our emotions. Plus, Ann Gibbons discusses the implications of a butchered 45,000-year-old mammoth found in the Siberian arctic for human migration. Read the related research in Science. [IMG: Dmitry Bogdanov]




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Podcast: A planet beyond Pluto, the bugs in your home, and the link between marijuana and IQ

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on studying marijuana use in teenage twins, building a better maze for psychological experiments, and a close inspection of the bugs in our homes. Science News Writer Eric Hand joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the potential for a ninth planet in the solar system that circles the sun just once every 15,000 years.  [Image: Gilles San Martin/CC BY-SA 2.0]




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Podcast: Babylonian astronomers, doubly domesticated cats, and outrunning a T. Rex

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex tracks, a signature of human consciousness, and a second try at domesticating cats. Mathieu Ossendrijver joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss newly translated Babylonian tablets that extend the roots of calculus all the way back to between 350 B.C.E. to 50 B.C.E. Read the related research in Science.




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Podcast: Taking race out of genetics, a cellular cleanse for longer life, and smart sweatbands

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on killing cells to lengthen life, getting mom’s microbes after a C-section, and an advanced fitness tracker that sits on the wrist and sips sweat.   Michael Yudell joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss an initiative to replace race in genetics with more biologically meaningful terms, and Lena Wilfert talks about drivers of the global spread of the bee-killing deformed wing virus.   [Image: Vipin Baliga/(CC BY 2.0)]




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Podcast: The effects of Neandertal DNA on health, squishing bugs for science, and sleepy confessions

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.]




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Podcast: Combatting malnutrition with gut microbes, fighting art forgers with science, and killing cancer with gold

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on how our abilities shape our minds, killing cancer cells with gold nanoparticles, and catching art forgery with cat hair.   Laura Blanton joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how nourishing our gut microbes may prevent malnutrition. Read the related research in Science.   [Image: D. S. Wagner et al., Biomaterials, 31 (2010)]   Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm




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Podcast: A recipe for clean and tasty drinking water, a gauge on rapidly rising seas, and fake flowers that can fool the most discerning insects

Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on what we can learn from 6million years of climate data, how to make lifelike orchids with 3D printing, and crowdsourced gender bias on eBay.   Fernando Rosario-Ortiz joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how approaches to water purification differ between countries.   [Image: Eric Hunt/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0] 0]




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Podcast: Glowing robot skin, zombie frogs, and viral fossils in our DNA

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on zombification by a frog-killing fungus, relating the cosmological constant to life in the universe, and ancient viral genes that protect us from illness.   Chris Larson joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new type of robot skin that can stretch and glow.   [Image: Jungbae Park]




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Podcast: Nuclear forensics, honesty in a sea of lies, and how sliced meat drove human evolution

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]




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Podcast: The latest news from Pluto, a rock-eating fungus, and tracking storm damage with Twitter

News intern Nala Rogers shares stories on mineral-mining microbes, mapping hurricane damage using social media, and the big takeaway from the latest human-versus-computer match up.   Hal Weaver joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss five papers from New Horizons Pluto flyby, including a special focus on Pluto’s smaller moons.   [Image: Saran_Poroong/iStockphoto]