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AWS – Amazon Web Services Summit (Chicago)
By Dr Beck If you ever wanted a view of what the future might look like if an articulate, intelligent woman of color was given the reigns of power, that vision was present. If you just were hoping for bits of insight on where technology is headed that too was present. But if you wanted […]
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The GONG Network, human mediated global warming and an Ice-Age missed?
By Dr Beck First things first. Below, you will find a 45 minute lecture given by Prof Dr Dan Britt, UCF professor and creator of Exolith, a NASA contractor. I recommend you listen to it, and watch it, although it is 10 years old. Dan is an amazing fellow. A graduate of the UW-Seattle; a […]
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QIS at Battelle-PNNL
Breakthrough research YOU can be a part of with the right motivation and degreed optimisim at my former lab, Battelle-PNNL. By Dr Beck Research that supports quantum computing, simulation, communication, and sensing is at the core of PNNL’s quantum information science (QIS) strategy. Their approach is one of co-design, where advances in the fundamental understanding […]
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Chicago – The new ‘Seattle’?
By Dr Beck Global warming for Chicagoland has been anything but warm. It’s been hot, with high evaporation levels from Lake Michigan. It’s been mild. Too mild for many during a pandemic. It’s been rain. It’s been rain. Have I mentioned rain? More rain than most of Chicagoland needs. Flash floods. The Desplaines River near […]
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States that charge extra fees on EVS to pay for highways and union employees
Dr Beck Thinking of purchasing your first EV? Some things to know. They are safer cars; they are faster cars; they are super tech with cameras everywhere outside the vehicle giving a birds-eye view to the drivers and emergency help a finger touch away. They are inexpensive to run (think no oil changes nor transmissions). […]
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“Polio Was Almost Eradicated. This Year It Staged a Comeback”
By Apoorva Mandavilli Aug. 18, 2022 for The New York Times “Before its discovery in New York’s wastewater, the virus made a series of ominous appearances around the world. “At the beginning of this year, there was a thrum of excitement among global health experts: Eradication of polio, a centuries-old foe that has paralyzed legions of […]
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Artemis – Goddess of the Moon for NASA and us
“Launch continues to target no earlier than Monday, August 29th at 8:33 a.m. EDT. You can watch the broadcast here starting at 6:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 29. Want to know the times in your location? See the launch and launch broadcast times.As countdown approaches, here’s some great mission content: “Get Excited! Be sure mark your calendar! During this flight, the […]
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Crop Suitability (1981-2100)
under SRES A1B conditions ‘Global Agricultural Land Resources – A High Resolution Suitability Evaluation and Its Perspectives until 2100 under Climate Change Conditions’: Florian Zabel*, Birgitta Putzenlechner, Wolfram Mauser: PLOS ABSTRACT “Changing natural conditions determine the land’s suitability for agriculture. The growing demand for food, feed, fiber andbioenergy increases pressure on land and causes trade-offs […]
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“Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau”
Xueying Li, Di Long, …Guangqian Wang. Nature Climate Change (2022)Cite this article 15AUG22 Abstract “Terrestrial water storage (TWS) over the Tibetan Plateau, a major global water tower, is crucial in determining water transport and availability to a large downstream Asian population. Climate change impacts on historical and future TWS changes, however, are not well quantified. […]
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The ‘Salmon People’ Survive
By Dr Beck I admit it. I am a West Coast Boy, born and bred. I was raised on salmon, sockeye mainly. I have bought fresh-frozen Alaskan sockeye off fishing trawlers moored at Fishermen’s Terminal in Ballard. I have purchased Chinook from Yakama who had an extra bounty in a good year on WA-14 above […]
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The Essential Carl Sagan
By Dr Beck When Carl Sagan spoke on Global Warming, the first President Bush was organizing the mid-term elections of his party. I was finishing up my post-doc at Penn with Prof Dr Marsha I Lester. It was 1990, 34 years after the Republican scientist (Dr David Keeling) from Scripps Institute in San Diego first […]
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“Low levels of hybridization between domestic and wild Mallards wintering in the lower Mississippi Flyway”
J Brian Davis, Diana C Outlaw, Kevin M Ringelman, Richard M Kaminski, Philip Lavretsky INTRO TO THE ARTICLE by Dr Beck Prof Phil Laversky is one of a small breed of academicians, who fell in love with hunting duck with his immigrant father in LA,; took that love into science, and became an esteemed Ducks […]
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“Polio is back on the radar of Canadian health officials. Here’s why… “
“Although Canadians are largely vaccinated against polio — the disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic that has led to children missing routine immunizations, or vaccine hesitancy fuelled by pandemic misinformation, could leave some vulnerable to an illness that was thought to be far in the rear-view mirror.” By Olivia Bowden Staff Reporter for The TORONTO STAR, […]
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Starship and Space Science
By Sarah Scoles, for SCIENCE “NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. It began on 9 October 2009, when the hull of a spent Centaur rocket stage smashed into Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, with the force of about 2 tons of TNT. And it ended […]
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