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• Everyone has the right to be safe – Disaster risk reduction

  
  African Press International (API) — Authority: 154
  By Jaspreet Kindra  Photo: UNICEF Philippines/2012/JEstey Everyone has the right to be safe HIGHLIGHTS Focus on implementation Need to make countries accountable A human rights-based approach to making people safer New-found attention to resilience could help JOHANNESBURG, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) – A month after the ...
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• M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found

  
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  “The Machine Age,” an essay written for The New York Times by Norbert Wiener, a visionary mathematician, languished for six decades in the M.I.T. archives, and now excerpts are being published.        
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• New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives

  
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  Advances in technology have transformed the methods of historians and other archival researchers, a change that carries both benefits and consequences.        
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• The Ayes Don’t Have It: Medicaid Expansion Fails In Missouri

  
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  The proposed Missouri Medicaid expansion has reached the end of the line, at least for this year. When Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced he would pursue the expansion after last November’s election, I expressed  my substantial reservations about both the cost and effectiveness of the program. And I repeated those ...
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• National Review: School Dollars Should Follow Success, Not Just Enrollment

  
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  A neo-liberal perspective on school funding and blended learning… National Review:  May 20, 2013  Incentivize Actual Learning School Dollars Should Follow Success, Not Just Enrollment By Sean Kennedy and Don Soifer The decision of the Louisiana supreme court to strike down as unconstitutional the funding ...
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• Carl Alfred Eder Wanted for 50 Years for Murder of Woman and Her Four Children

  
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  ID #13-174 The FBI is currently seeking Carl Alfred Eder on a warrant charging him with escape. Agents report that in 1958, Thomas Pendergast of El Cajon, California picked up a hitchhiking Eder, and took pity on him. Pendergast offered to let Eder stay in the Pendergast home until Eder got a job and got back on his ...
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• Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise – except reality shows them going down in the USA

  
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  Only one problem, an NIH study shows that thanks to air conditioning and other factors, including better education programs about heat waves, heat related deaths are actually going down in the USA. From Davis et al, Changing Heat-Related Mortality in … Continue reading →
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• NEI Remembers Stephen J. Ryan

  
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  Stephen J. Ryan, M.D., highly regarded for his leadership and tireless advocacy on behalf of the NEI, passed away April 29, 2013. An internationally recognized expert in retinal diseases and ocular trauma, Ryan was the president of the Doheny Eye Institute, an independent nonprofit institution affiliated with the ...
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• John Abraham: Heartland Institute wastes real scientists time – yet again

  
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  Wouldnt it be nice to live in a world where armchair experts gave up fighting over whether climate change is occurring? by John Abraham, Climate Consensus -- The 97%, The Guardian blogs, May 20th, 2013 Scientists have the thankless job of fact-checking books like the ones sent out by the Heartland Institute. ...
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• MIT Contest Winner 3dim Brings Gesture Control to Mobile Devices

  
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  The winner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 2013 MIT $100k business-plan competition, 3dim Tech , has created software that brings “gestural interaction” to smart mobile devices of any kind. Courtesy of MIT $100K 3dim Tech’s gestural technology being used to type on a projected ...
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• Rick Santorums Role in the Making of an IRS Chief

  
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  By now, we’re all familiar with the scandal that has plauged the Internal Revenue Service and the Obama Administration. Many questions are left to answered, and there is some hope that we will discover more on Wednesday when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will question Douglas Shulman , former ...
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• Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging

  
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  The post Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging appeared first on Innovation Toronto. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Law School Clinics and American Law

  
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  It is fantastic to see clinical work-product being used in court cases; to have clinical briefs being referenced in front of the Supreme Court of the United States shows the impact that effective experiential study can have and the effects that clinic experience can have on the future practices of these students. ...
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• NanoString Technologies Maneuvers In Line for $86M IPO

  
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  Luke Timmerman NanoString Technologies just started selling its first diagnostic test after 10 years in business, and now it’s getting ready for another milestone—an initial public offering. The Seattle-based company said today that it is seeking to raise as much as $86.3 million in an IPO, according to a ...
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• How Much Does Each Startup Job Add To A State’s Gross Product?

  
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  Almost US$1.2 million, that’s how much. According to the results of a new study examining the effect of net employment creation by startup businesses on state gross product, each net job created by startup firms is estimated to increase state gross product by that amount in a given year. Authored by Pacific ...
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• 48 Hours in Charleston: A Prelude

  
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  Before last week, I’d never been to Charleston. I knew I’d be in for a treat – albeit a busy trip to plan for our fast-approaching National Sustainable Food Summit in November – but I was not fully prepared for the  incredible hospitality of Charleston. Below are a few stories of food, people, and Summit ...
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• Buyer’s remorse: ObamaCare tax will slam union workers

  
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  By Paul Kersey - Americans for Tax Reform compiled a list of tax increases associated with Obamacare, and union workers in particular are staring at a whopper in a few years – a hefty tax on premium health insurance plans...
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• Start right now! Tips for aspiring social entrepreneurs

  
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  Being graduation season, we asked some of the most innovative thinkers in Colorado to share some advice with young and aspiring social entrepreneurs. Check out what they had to say, why Colorado a great place to let your imagination flourish, and how you can get started right now. Photo via Hampton Roads ...
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• Roundup: Our Top Picks For Celebrating Memorial Day Weekend In And Around Philadelphia

  
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  Memorial Day Weekend is already here, folks, and attractions all over the Greater Philadelphia area host long weekend festivities in celebration of the holiday. (Photo courtesy Longwood Gardens) Ready for summertime, Philadelphia? Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to the summer season (the first day of ...
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• Vietnam to distribute anti-H1N1 vaccine by late 2014

  
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  The Institute for Vaccines and Medical Biologicals under the Health Ministry has stepped up its efforts to produce an effective vaccine guarding against the H1N1 flu virus and hopes to be distributing it en masse by late 2014 or early 2015. With approval from the Health Ministry, the institute conducted the first ...
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