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How the crises of 2021 and a new collection redeem Joan Didions politics Jessica Ferri © (Quintana Roo Dunne) Joan Didion in 2003. photographed by her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne. (Quintana Roo Dunne) Joan Didion is one of America’s greatest writers. She is also, thanks to her equal mastery of images, one of its greatest icons. There she is, leaning on that white Corvette, perched by that massive typewriter, side-eyeing her family on that Malibu balcony. Her two memoirs of ...

By Joan Didion Knopf: 192 pages, $23 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Joan Didion is one of America’s greatest writers. She is also, thanks to her equal mastery of images, one of its greatest icons. There she is, leaning on that yellow Corvette, perched by that massive typewriter, side-eyeing her family on that Malibu balcony. Her two memoirs of horrific loss, “ Blue Nights,” punctured Didio...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Pictorial representation of joint experimental and computational study of materials. The study utilized the Advanced Photon Source (upper panel) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (lower panel). The team addressed the... view more  Credit: Emmanuel Gygi, University of California, San Diego Computer simulations hold tremendous promise to accelerate the molecular engineering of green energy technologies, such as new systems for electrical energy storage and solar e...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Tuned photon-magnon interactions. The teams device is in the center. Arrow indicates direction of spin excitation for magnons. The purplish shroud represents reflectance measurements. The separated darker lines on each... view more  Credit: Argonne National Laboratory. Scientists tame photon-magnon interaction. Working with theorists in the University of Chicagos Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, researchers in the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne National...

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Argonne scientists and research facilities have made a difference in the fight against COVID-19 in the year since the first gene sequence for the virus was published. Sunday, Jan. 10, will mark one year since the first gene sequence for the virus that causes COVID-19 was published, igniting the quest for vaccines and treatments. Ten days later, the first case of the virus was confirmed in the United States. The U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne Nati...

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Two Years into the Government’s National Quantum Initiative Yurchanka Siarhei/Shutterstock email December 21, 2020 An Office of Science and Technology Policy official offered a look back on what’s unfolded—and a glimpse into what’s to come. Now, the sights of those helping implement the law are set on the future.  “I would say in five years, something wed love to see is ... a better idea of, ‘What are the applications for a quantum computer that’s...

ELAM: Meet your new energy secretary - Odessa American: Dennis Elam Dennis Elam Dennis Elam is an associate professor at Texas A&M San Antonio and a 1966 graduate of Andrews High School and blogs at https://professorelam.typepad.com/markets/ Posted: Sunday, December 20, 2020 3:00 am Solyndra received more than half-a-billion dollars from taxpayers through the Obama administration’s massive stimulus bill in 2009 and filed for bankruptcy in 2011. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal...

Nuclear Care Partners, which provides free in-home care to former atomic workers who have developed illnesses due to exposure to radiation and toxic chemicals, said this week it remains committed to patient care despite the COVID-19 pandemic. “To continue this needed in-home care, our care teams are taking extra safety precautions and have been equipped with the necessary critical supplies to lessen the risk of transmission and keep our patients as safe as possible,” said Laura Welsh,...