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DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields
2016-08-17 11:55:16| Green Car Congress
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Large human brain evolved as a result of 'sizing each other up'
2016-08-12 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Humans have evolved a disproportionately large brain as a result of sizing each other up in large cooperative social groups, researchers have proposed. A team led by computer scientists at Cardiff University suggest that the challenge of judging a person's relative standing and deciding whether or not to cooperate with them has promoted the rapid expansion of human brain size over the last 2 million years. In a study published in Scientific Reports today, …
Politics, economics and nature collide to spread Zika and other diseases
2016-08-07 04:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: With the Zika virus looming just a couple of years after Ebola spread across West Africa, what's long been obvious to experts should now be clear to the rest of us: We live in an era of emerging pathogens. Between 1940 and 2004, more than 300 infectious diseases either emerged or spread into new places and populations. On July 29, Florida Gov. Rick Scott called a news conference to alert the public to four cases of Zika in South Florida transmitted locally by mosquitoes. (The number grew last...
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Portland wants your feedback on plan to reduce risk from earthquakes and other natural hazards
2016-08-03 21:13:11| PortlandOnline
Press release issued August 3, 2016.
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Portland Parks & Recreation completes first Bond project, more than two dozen other projects underway
2016-07-29 01:09:58| PortlandOnline
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