Nuclear reactors rely on another: gadolinium. The rare earth cerium can serve as a catalyst to process crude oil into a host of useful products. They also have similar chemical properties. Those last two elements tend to occur in the same ore deposits as lanthanides. Also included in the rare earths are scandium (atomic number 21) and yttrium (atomic number 39). Known as lanthanides, they run from lanthanum to lutetium - atomic numbers 57 through 71. And demand for these metals has been skyrocketing.įifteen rare earths make up a whole row on most periodic tables. Called rare earths, these 17 elements are crucial to nearly all modern electronics. That was, of course, fiction.īack here on Earth, in real life, a group of metallic elements has made possible our own technology-driven society. It also became the basis of an intergalactic civilization. This spice granted people the ability to navigate vast expanses of the cosmos. Mining a precious natural substance called spice melange was a driving theme in that epic space saga. The first volume of Frank Herbert’s Dune series debuted back in 1965.
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Local and systemic inflammation induced by obesity or type 2 diabetes mellitus can cause BBB breakdown, decreased removal of waste, and increased infiltration of immune cells. The BBB, a system designed to restrict entry of toxins, immune cells, and pathogens to the brain, is vital for proper neuronal function. Neuropathologies triggered by metabolic syndrome often result from increased permeability of the blood–brain-barrier (BBB). It induces systemic inflammation, causing far reaching effects on the body that are still being uncovered. Metabolic syndrome, which includes diabetes and obesity, is one of the most widespread medical conditions. 3Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.2Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. 1Neuroscience Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.Peter Van Dyken 1 and Baptiste Lacoste 1,2,3* Her first response was to save the man and while doing so she took down not one, but six vampires - with ing out of her hands! After saving the man's life, she looses consciousness and wakes some time later to discover she is immersed in a land of druids, vampires and immortals. The consequences of her actions create a shift and set things in motion that have the potential of changing more than the battle outcome. He is being attacked by six men so Kinley does what she was trained to do, protect and defend. Immediately she hears noise and sees a warrior separated from his team. Clearly she has changed, but not in a way the therapist envisioned. When she makes a hard landing and looks around, everything is different - she is in a strange location and environment which she can't explain and she "feels" different and confused about everything. Then she questions whether she is falling, dying or if her PTSD is kicking in. The therapist steps away for a moment and that is when Kinley begins moving her wheelchair down a path, she suddenly finds herself falling. A new therapist decides Kinley may respond favorably with a change of scenery so she takes her off base to a scenic location for their session. She is in constant pain and refuses pain meds - she doesn't want to be here anymore. Serious organ damage, immeasurable pain and PTSD further complicate matters. While on a mission in Afghanistan USAF Captain Kinley Chandler received wounds over a major portion of her body. In the 1990s, at a time when the medium of painting had fallen out of favour, Glenn Brown took up the challenge of making original work. At Goldsmiths, he was taught by Michael Craig-Martin, who had instructed the cohort of the Young British Artists (YBAs).įollowing his graduation, Brown set up a studio in East London and was regularly included in exhibitions along with other YBAs, despite wanting to distance himself from the group's installation-focused practice. Educationīrown attended the Bath School of Art and Design from 1985 to 1988, before completing an MA at Goldsmiths College in London in 1992. Born in Hexham, England, Brown grew up surrounded by religious iconography, noting its use of grandiosity and violence, which would later return across his paintings.Īs an adolescent, the artist was drawn to the emotional detachment and the self-awareness of postmodernism, as well as the visual language of conceptual painters like Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. But his attempts at wooing his friends go painfully and hilariously wrong…until he discovers that love might have been in front of him all along. With his eighteenth birthday only three months away, and only Matt in on the secret, Arek embarks on a desperate bid to find a spouse to save his life-starting with his quest companions. An instant New York Time bestseller Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this. Now Arek is stuck as king, a role that comes with a magical catch: choose a spouse by your eighteenth birthday, or wither away into nothing. As a temporary safeguard, Arek’s best friend and mage, Matt, convinces him to assume the throne until the true heir can be rescued from her tower. So now that he’s finally managed to (somewhat clumsily) behead the evil king (turns out magical swords yanked from bogs don’t come pre-sharpened), he and his rag-tag group of quest companions are at a bit of a loss for what to do next. Their contemporary fantasy novel The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic was a 2017 Cybils Award finalist in. Arek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler. Lukens is a New York Times bestselling author of YA speculative fiction including the novels So This Is Ever After, In Deeper Waters, and the forthcoming Spell Bound as well as other science-fiction and fantasy works. Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive. In Part One of the book, Diamond sketches out the course of recent human history, emphasizing the differences between civilizations. Yali wanted to know, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”-in other words, why have European societies been so militarily, economically, and technologically successful in the last 500 years, while other societies have not approached such a level of achievement? The book is framed as a response to a question that Diamond heard from Yali, a charismatic New Guinean politician. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond outlines the theory of geographic determinism, the idea that the differences between societies and societal development arise primarily from geographical causes. Reading the Final Architecture series, I had to accept long ago that I would never fully grasp the nuances of some of its central concepts, even if I understood them on an instinctual level. Image: Orbit Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky We’ll keep this updated throughout the year, in reverse chronological order, so the newest releases will always be listed first. Whichever direction you head in, it will be sure to grip you - and make you think. It has also been a standout year, so far, for supernatural horrors and thrillers. There’s a preponderance of post-post apocalyptic science fiction unpacking lofty ideas like sentience and humanity, often set on different planets or among the stars. Though we seem to have crested the wave of pandemic novels, that sense of dread and discoloration has lingered, written into novels of new forms. Many of our favorites once again blur the line between sci-fi and fantasy - but this year was a particular standout for books blurring the line between SFF and other genres, from historical fiction Westerns to fable retellings to intergenerational sagas in translation. Though we’re only halfway through the year, it’s been packed with excellent science fiction and fantasy books. The repetition of the "p" and "s" sounds help to build emotion in this scene from Part 10. We also find alliteration in the sentence "I can see all the pills, perhaps placebos, stacked up inside even as I am sitting above them" (68). The repetition of the short "i" vowel sound in "is", "in", and "billow" is an example of assonance. The repetition of the "s" and "b" sounds at the beginning of words is an example of alliteration. We see alliteration and assonance in the sentence "The sky is drowning in blue with clouds that billow like sails, a blue sea of sails" (35). Assonance is the repetition of specifically a vowel sound in adjacent or closely connected words. Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Take, for example, this 2011 sext: “I am a living male turtleneck. When she joined Twitter in 2011, she soon amassed a devoted following enamored by her surreal, playfully raunchy “sexts”: gnomic shards of poetry combining erotica and webspeak. At nineteen, Lockwood met her now-husband in a poetry chatroom at twenty-one, they married, and Lockwood set about seeking a wider audience for her poetry. Two decades later, Lockwood writes less about Jesus and mermaids than she once did, but the kinetic call and response that characterized her early years online now seems a blueprint for the forces animating her outstanding debut novel, No One is Talking About This, a visceral rendering of an influencer’s life in “the slipstream of information.” Though No One is Talking About This is Lockwood’s first novel, it’s also a culmination of a life made and unmade online, beginning with Lockwood’s transformative “deprogramming” from her conservative Catholic upbringing (memorably captured in her acclaimed 2017 memoir, Priestdaddy), courtesy of deep dives into progressive websites about infertility and late-term abortions. Rumaan Alam Talks Demystifying His Writing Process. Sloth is all about owning who you are and navigating the perceptions. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. 'Slowly, slowly, slowly,' said the sloth by Eric Carle. Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. Urn:oclc:843788885 Republisher_date 20120322051359 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120321155857 Scanner . One of his favorites is Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, said the Sloth, by Eric Carle, the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 'Slowly, slowly, slowly,' said the sloth Bookreader Item Preview. Urn:lcp:slowlyslowlyslow00carl:epub:04732be4-af75-4830-988e-1f58daa673bd Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier slowlyslowlyslow00carl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t32240m4f Isbn 9780399239540Ģ002015057 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary O元557236M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:14:12 Boxid IA176901 Boxid_2 CH100501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Containerid_2 X0001 External-identifier |