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Ever more countries are banning plastic bags – Daily chart
August 11, 2019There Was No Gunfire in Times Square. But the Panic Was Still Real. – The New York Times
August 11, 2019pp | Definition of pp in English by Oxford Dictionaries
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Per procurationem (used when signing a letter on someone else’s behalf). “}}
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pp
The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper
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“But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce: the research library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new. As beautiful as those libraries appear—and I, too, find myself unconsciously responding to such surroundings, having grown up studying in them—we should beware the peril of books as glorified wallpaper. The value of books, after all, is what lies beneath their covers, as lovely as those covers may be.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/college-students-arent-checking-out-books/590305/
NYTimes: Walmart Shooting in El Paso Renews Attention on Crime Frequency at Its Stores
August 11, 2019Use and Care of Gage Blocks
August 11, 2019Nobel Winner Kary Banks Mullis, Who Revolutionized DNA Research, Dies in O.C. – MyNewsLA.com
August 10, 2019Personalis Prices $154.9M IPO | GenomeWeb
August 6, 2019Photopea and Polarr- browser based editors
August 6, 2019The browser-based photoshop editor…is
(It’s more like a lite version of photoshop with all the functionality an amateur might ever use. Accepts photoshop, GIMP, etc. file formats in addition to other standard file formats.)
For a web-based Lightroom alternative – https://v2.polarr.co/#.
