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“Why experts say the legalization of marijuana is no cause for celebration…”
By Daryl Austin| Aug 4, 2022 9 p.m. MDT, for The Deseret News “Last month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced a bill to end federal prohibitions on marijuana put in place when Congress made the drug illegal more than 50 years ago. “Attitudes toward cannabis use have fluctuated greatly in the last century. […]
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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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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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States that charge extra fees on EVS to pay for highways
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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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 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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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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First Light – Speculative Origin Tales of a Website
By Dr Beck, circa FEB2016 “I Really Appreciate Science. Technology and Cute Experiments are Cool, too!” – this would be the name of the website I want to start. The first installment would be: The nature of evolution can be regarded as cooperative dissipation of energy. Every stage of evolution, including the steps that gave […]
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MapX’ much maligned SRES A1B prediction for 2100 and Reality today.
By Dr Beck Two images “The Scarred Landscape of the Climate Crisis” James Cheshire, University College London “I’ve been obsessively checking satellite imagery to witness the UK turn from green to yellow, thanks to the period extreme heat and lack of rain Europe has been enduring. The parched landscape is unlike anything I’ve seen before […]
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“Policy Insights from the Inflation Reduction Act”
MICHAEL MANN, SHELLEY WELTON, MARK ALAN HUGHES | AUGUST 10, 2022 CLIMATE, MARKETS & REGULATION, ACCESS & EQUITY Penn faculty affiliated with the Kleinman Center give their thoughts on The Inflation Reduction Act’s potential impact on energy policy. On Sunday, the Senate passed a budget reconciliation bill on a party-line vote that included a number of landmark actions on […]
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“Climate change is making over 200 diseases worse and our immune systems weaker, study finds”
More than 58 per cent of human diseases have gotten worse because of climate change, according to a new study. The groundbreaking research, published in Nature Climate Change on Monday, was conducted by researchers at Mamoa’s University of Hawaii, who carried out a systematic search for real-life examples of the impact of ten climatic hazards […]
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“Why COVID-19 is more deadly in people with obesity—even if they’re young”
“The stickiest blood I’ve ever seen” and other weight-related factors worsen the coronavirus disease” 8 SEP 2020BYMEREDITH WADMAN for SCIENCE MAGAZINE “Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. “When the first wave of coronavirus hit the state of Vermont in the spring, patients from all corners of the state […]
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The Rhodium Group analysis of the Senate IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) Climate Bill
By Dr Beck I urge everyone to read the Rhodium Group analysis of the Senate Climate IRA Bill. Like all legislation on Climate coming through the US Congress, it is a compromise bill. Not a Green Party solution. But a solution that avoids war, none the less. I present here a condensed form for lunchtime […]
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