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Solar Storm

Can we get astronauts to Mars sane and healthy?

This story is Part three of Quirks & Quarks' Pathway to Mars series. Each instalment will look at one part of the huge challenges inherent in the most ambitious journey of exploration we've ever attempted — a human mission to Mars. A mission to Mars will be aimed at putting human…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

Kate Bradley Chernis of Lately: Marketers Hate Writing, but AI and Automation Eases the Pain

One thing a lot of people struggle with is writing. Whether it’s finding enough time to do it, or enough interesting topics to consistently publish compelling content that gets the right people’s attention, many marketers would rather do something else … anything else … than sit down and write. But…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Lithium

House Democrats Have a Plan to Build High-Speed EV Charging Stations Across the U.S.

Cars are bad, especially the ones that run on gas, which are most of them. The average car emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (that equals roughly one shitload), and the transportation sector is responsible for 29 percent of the United Sta…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Lithium

House Democrats Have A Plan To Build High-Speed EV Charging Stations Across The U.S.

Photo: Yana Paskova, Getty Cars are bad, especially the ones that run on gas, which are most of them. The average car emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year (that equals roughly one shitload), and the transportation sector is responsible for 29 per cent of the United…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Chernobyl

The Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation

Main Blog > The Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation Scientists have been studying an extremophile fungus growing at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for years. This fungus apparently grows toward radiation the way plants grow toward sunlight. It consumes the radiation and uses it for energy, like little power plants!How can…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

IDEX

A game changer for start-ups

The boost received by start-ups in the budget was the toast of Information Technology industry players though there was the odd voice of caution against giving monetary incentives to start-ups without due diligence. The budget proposals for helping start-up…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Turkish Refugee Camp

Explained: In IS recruit Shamima, a test case for West

By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 8, 2020 10:17:05 am Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. (Reuters Photo:…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Global Warming

Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record of 18.3C

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Antarctic Peninsula is among the fastest-warming regions on earth A record high temperature of 18.3C (64.9F) has been logged on the continent of Antarctica.The reading, taken on Thursday by Argentine research base Esperanza, is 0.8C hotter than the previous peak temperature of 17.5C,…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Astroturfing

Information, Media & News Literacies: Word Bank

Maybe it is my modus operandi (as a multilingual), when I try to wrap my mind around a topic, theme, content, etc….I automatically will start with the vocabulary used with that topic, theme or in the content matter. Learning about the vocabulary, searching for definition and meaning in context usually…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Air Pollution

Mumbai: No proposal to combat air pollution in civic budget leaves activists miffed

By: Express News Service | Mumbai | Published: February 8, 2020 2:03:25 am On February 4, Municipal Commissioner Parveen Pardeshi presented the 2020-21 budget estimate of Rs 33,441.02 crore before the BMC Standing Commit-tee.Absence of any concrete action plan to curb air pollution in Mumbai in the BMC budget has…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Can we get astronauts to Mars sane and healthy?

Kate Bradley Chernis of Lately: Marketers Hate Writing, but AI and Automation Eases the Pain

House Democrats Have a Plan to Build High-Speed EV Charging Stations Across the U.S.

House Democrats Have A Plan To Build High-Speed EV Charging Stations Across The U.S.

The Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation

A game changer for start-ups

Explained: In IS recruit Shamima, a test case for West

Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record of 18.3C

Information, Media & News Literacies: Word Bank

Mumbai: No proposal to combat air pollution in civic budget leaves activists miffed

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