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Egyptian pigment to cool buildings

A blue pigment used by the Egyptians thousands of years ago will find applications in cooling facades and roofs of buildings. Egyptian blue, derived from copper and calcium silicate, was commonly used on ancient representations of gods and royalty in ancient Egypt. A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley …

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge

Two Postdoctoral Fellows (EN) Deadline November 15, 2018 Department/Research Group DEPT. III Inquiries For questions concerning the research project and Department III, please contact Prof. Dagmar Schäfer (dschaefer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for technical questions regarding the application portal, for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please first contact the Department secretary …

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Allen-Berenson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Race-Ethnicity, Class and Sexuality Studies, USA

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Brandeis University invites applications in the field of trans or non-binary gender studies for its two-year Allen-Berenson Postdoctoral Fellowship. The discipline is open; we are especially interested in scholars who bring an intersectional approach to their intellectual work. The successful candidate will …

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