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  • 12th of Never - James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
    It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in […]
  • Inferno - Dan Brown
    In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code , Angels & Demons , and The Lost Symbol , Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harro […]
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgeral […]
  • Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James
    When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Er […]
  • And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
    An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just […]
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  • Wild - Cheryl Strayed
    A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.   At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, wit […]
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  • Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
    Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In  Lean In,  Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achievin […]
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  • Beautiful Boy - David Sheff
    What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor stu […]
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  • The Outsider - Jimmy Connors
    Jimmy Connors is a working-man's hero, a people's champion who could tear the cover off a tennis ball, just as he tore the cover off the country-club gentility of his sport. A renegade from the wrong side of the tracks, Connors broke the rules with a radically aggressive style of play and bad-boy antics that turned his matches into prizefights. In […]
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  • Someone Could Get Hurt - Drew Magary
    A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online. And now he’s finally bringing that unique voice to a memoir. In Som […]
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The Health Toll of Immigration

A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in the United States, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

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Space trio lands in Kazakhstan after five months in orbit

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan with two crewmates on Tuesday, wrapping up a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. A Soyuz capsule under an orange parachute raised clouds of dust as it ignited an engine to cushion its landing some 150 kilometres southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan at 8.31am, Russian television showed in a live broadcast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Dogs may be the heart’s best friend, experts say

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The largest cardiovascular health organisation in the US has a new message: owning a dog may protect you from heart disease. The message was in a scientific statement published on Thursday by the American Heart Association, which convened a panel of experts to review years of data on the cardiovascular benefits of owning a pet. They concluded that owning a dog in particular was “probably associated” with a reduced risk of heart disease. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Police struggle to stop jaywalkers as Beijing launches road safety campaign

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Police officers donning reflective vests and shoulder-mounted cameras manned more than 150 street crossings in Beijing yesterday to catch and fine jaywalkers, as the capital ramped up efforts to improve crossing safety. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Five times more conservatives than liberals in China, says survey

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Research by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has surprised even the study’s author, who last polled political attitudes in the wake of the Tiananmen uprising in 1989. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data

For as much as $20,000, Worldwide Motion Picture Group compares the story structure and genre of a script with those of released movies, looking for clues to box-office success.

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US hypersonic aircraft sustains Mach 5.1 flight

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The unmanned X-51A WaveRider sped westward for four minutes, reaching Mach 5.1, or more than five times the speed of sound, before making a planned plunge into the ocean. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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H7N9 called ‘one of the most lethal’ flu viruses

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A new strain of bird flu that is causing a deadly outbreak among people in China is a threat to world health and should be taken seriously, scientists said on Wednesday. The H7N9 strain has killed 24 people and infected more than 125, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO), which has described it as “one of the most lethal” flu viruses. The high mortality rate, together with relatively large numbers of cases in a short period and the possibility it might acquire the ability to transmit between people, make H7N9 a pandemic risk, experts said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Research Unveiled at Amsterdam Van Gogh Exhibition

Research casts a new light on van Gogh’s work, in an exhibition of the artist’s development at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

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Analysts see pattern in Assad’s alleged use of chemical arms in Syria civil war

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria’s ongoing civil war were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein’s 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq that killed thousands. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Not News: Americans Distrust Politicians

This chart from the Brookings Institute's collaboration with the Public Religion Research Institute wonderfully demonstrates that American citizens don't trust their public officials to carry out vague policy proposals:

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Samsung Sells 69.4 Million Smartphones in First Quarter for 33 Percent Share, Report Says

Samsung Electronics Co sold a record 69.4 million smartphones in the first quarter, boosting its market share to an all-time high of 33.1 percent, data from research firm Strategy Analytics showed on Friday.

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Sperm bank rejects claims that medical students forced to donate

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A sperm bank in Hebei dismissed online claims that said a college had forced its students to make donations, news portal Hebeinews.cn reported on Wednesday. The students were at the Hebei Human Sperm Bank to participate in a volunteer research project on sperm quality, not because they were forced to donate, a spokesman of the facility said on Wednesday. He was responding to an internet post by a college student surnamed Jiang. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Slight dip in UK public borrowing

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The UK government borrowed £120.6bn in the financial year to April 2013, slightly lower than the amount it borrowed the previous year.

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Enlisting a Virtual Pack, to Study Dog Minds

A company offers online cognition tests for dogs with the hopes of collecting data for research.

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Indian child in ‘critical’ condition after brutal rape

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A five-year-old Indian girl was battling for her life on Friday after being kidnapped and brutally raped in the latest incident of sexual violence which has triggered nationwide protests. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Ninety per cent of parent support subsidised kindergarten: survey

<!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 90 per cent of pre-primary parents support full government subsidisation of kindergarten education, but no consensus has been reached on how this could be achieved, a survey found. The survey – conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Education – polled 29 kindergarten principals, 332 early education teachers and 2,343 parents from 30 non-profit-making and private independent kindergartens between February and March. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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More Reason to Enjoy That Beer (In Moderation)

While not a novel idea, new research suggests that drinking even as little as a sip of beer can trigger a feeling of happiness. 

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Rat Kidneys Made in Lab Seen as Step to Human Transplants

Researchers said that while creating functional kidneys for people was a long way off, replacement organs made like the rat kidneys would have benefits over other methods.

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DNA Project Aims to Make Company’s Data Public

Researchers are asking cancer clinics to hand over Myriad Genetics’ test results so they can more easily interpret the risk posed by mutations of two breast cancer genes.

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  • Linear Algebra - Prof. Gilbert Strang
    This is a basic subject on matrix theory and linear algebra. Emphasis is given to topics that will be useful in other disciplines, including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, similarity, and positive definite matrices. *Please note that Lecture 4 is unavailable in a higher quality format. […]
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  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming - Eric Grimson, John Guttag
    This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The cla […]
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  • Introduction to Algorithms - Prof. Erik Demaine Prof. Charles Leiserson
    This course teaches techniques for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, emphasizing methods useful in practice. Topics covered include: sorting; search trees, heaps, and hashing; divide-and-conquer; dynamic programming; amortized analysis; graph algorithms; shortest paths; network flow; computational geometry; number-theoretic algorithms; polynom […]
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  • Game Theory - Video - Ben Polak
    (ECON 159) This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, […]
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  • Introduction to Programming in C# - Course Materials - Georgia State University
    This course provides an introduction to programming using the C# language. Emphasis is placed upon the development of correct, efficient programs that are easy to maintain. Topics include problem analysis, program design, documentation, testing and debugging. Basic features of the C# programming language are covered. […]
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  • Harvard Thinks Big - Harvard University
    Harvard Thinks Big is a campus-wide event that brings together some of Harvard’s most renowned faculty members to speak to the school’s undergraduate community. Harvard Thinks Big borrows from the mold of the TED conferences— a collection of all-star Harvard professors each speak for ten minutes about something they are passionate about. The goal of the even […]
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  • Critical Reasoning for Beginners - Oxford University
    Are you confident you can reason clearly? Are you able to convince others of your point of view? Are you able to give plausible reasons for believing what you believe? Do you sometimes read arguments in the newspapers, hear them on the television, or in the pub and wish you knew how to confidently evaluate them? In this six-part course, you will learn all ab […]
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  • Dean Lectures - California Academy of Sciences
    This series of talks for the general public is given by noted scientists in the fields of astronomy and space science. It is held in the Morrison Planetarium, home of the most accurate and interactive digital Universe ever created, which is shown on the world's largest all-digital dome. This iTunes U Collection contains the audio podcasts from this lect […]
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  • Machine Learning - Andrew Ng
    This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. The course also discusses recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing. Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminati […]
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  • iPad and iPhone Application Development (HD) - Paul Hegarty
    Updated for iOS 5. Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone and iPad platform using the iOS SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multi-touch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller paradigm, memory management, Objective-C programming language. Other topics include: obje […]
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  • Mathematics for Computer Science - Tom Leighton, Marten van Dijk
    This course covers elementary discrete mathematics. Mathematical definitions and proofs are emphasized. Topics include formal logic, induction, graph theory, asymptotic notation and growth of functions, counting principles, and discrete probability. […]
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  • Programming Methodology - Mehran Sahami
    This course is the largest of the introductory programming courses and is one of the largest courses at Stanford. Topics focus on the introduction to the engineering of computer applications emphasizing modern software engineering principles: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing. Programming Methodology teaches the w […]
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  • Mindful Meditations - UCLA
    Our mission is to foster mindful awareness through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society. Mindful Awareness is the moment-by-moment process of actively and openly observing one’s physical, mental and emotional experiences. Mindful Awareness has scientific support as a means to reduce stress, improve attention, boost th […]
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  • Masters of Photography - National Geographic Live
    Step behind the camera with top-flight photographers. […]
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  • Science and Cooking - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
    This public lecture series discusses concepts from the physical sciences that underpin both everyday cooking and haute cuisine. Each lecture features a world-class chef who visited and presented their remarkable culinary designs: Ferran Adria presented spherification; Jose Andres discussed both the basic components of food and gelation; Joan Roca demonstrate […]
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  • Physics I: Classical Mechanics - Walter Lewin
    8.01 is a first-semester freshman physics class in Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory. In addition to the basic concepts of Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Kinetic Gas Theory, a variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Resonance Phenomena, Musical Instruments, Stel […]
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  • Single Variable Calculus - Prof. David Jerison
    This introductory calculus course covers differentiation and integration of functions of one variable, with applications *Note: Lectures 8, 17, 27, 33 were the exams and therefore have no videos. […]
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  • Electricity & Magnetism - Prof. Walter Lewin
    In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of interesting topics are covered in this course: Lightning, Pacemakers, Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiograms, Metal Detectors, Musical Instruments, Magnetic Levitation, Bullet Trains, Electric Motors, Radios, TV, Car Coils, Superconductivity, Aurora Borealis, Rainbows, Radio Teles […]
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  • Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus - MIT OpenCourseWare
    Calculus Revisited is a series of videos and related resources that covers the materials normally found in a freshman-level introductory calculus course. The series was first released in 1970 as a way for people to review the essentials of calculus. It is equally valuable for students who are learning calculus for the first time. About the Instructor Herb Gr […]
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  • Financial Theory - Video - John Geanakoplos
    This course attempts to explain the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Rather than separating off the financial world from the rest of the economy, financial equilibrium is studied as an extension of economic equilibrium. The course also gives a picture of the kind of thinking and analysis done by hedge funds. […]
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