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L.A. literature: In a durably famous metaphor for Southern California, “The Crying of Lot 49’s” heroine, Oedipa, compares the sight of a distant sprawling suburb to a transistor radio’s printed circuit board.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The literature shows that one of the channels through which energy price shocks, like other commodity price shocks, can impact the economy is the central bank.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
However, the researchers highlight major gaps in the existing literature.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
Dictionaries had long belonged to scholars of language and literature, but modern life was increasingly shaped by science, and its vocabulary needed explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The youngest of the three scientists, von Tschermak had received news of two other parallel studies that fully corroborated his results, then waded back into the scientific literature to discover Mendel.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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