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Brian Leiter at Chicago is once again doing his occasional series identifying the top cited legal scholars in the United States in a range of substantive areas. MORE
Four centuries after Descartes declared them to be mere machines that didn’t feel fear or pain, we’re still acting as though we don’t know better. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Health Ethics MORE
Its structural attributes and physiological effects make it an ideal tool for learning cardiology; studying heart-brain interactions; and dispensing neuro-cardiac therapy. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Health Medicine MORE
How to increase the consideration of female candidates for male-gendered roles. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Social Sciences Diversity Inequality MORE
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ECOJUSTICE, ONTARIO NATURE. Developer withdraws permit application for Provincially Significant Wetland . MORE
Florida governor Ron DeSantis and politicians in Texas say research does not support mask mandates. Many studies show they are wrong. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Health Public Health MORE
A new “time lens” that can magnify the difference in arrival times between individual photons within an ultra-short pulse has been developed by researchers in the US. MORE
Sustainable packaging company DS Smith is investing more than $8.8 million to expand its anaerobic treatment facility to create…. The post DS Smith Invests in Biogas Creation appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. MORE
Standard remedies offer little relief for the itchy rash caused by the plant, but researchers have found promising clues in the immune system. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. The Science of Health Health Medicine Vaccines MORE
The Galileo Project seeks to train telescopes on unidentified aerial phenomena. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Space & Physics Extraterrestrial Life MORE
Emissions from diesel trucks and buses don’t just release higher levels of air pollution, they are also local in their effects and in Oregon disproportionately impact low-income individuals. Uncategorized air pollution heavy-duty trucks NOx pm 2.5 MORE
Rebecca Boehm, an economist with the UCS Food and Environment Program, looked at Arkansas and the biggest poultry producer in the state, Tyson Foods, as a case study and published her findings in August in conjunction with a Guardian investigative story. MORE
James Gustave Speth has been calling for action on climate since serving in the White House in the 1970s. In an e360 interview, he talks about his new book, which chronicles how successive U.S. administrations repeatedly failed to act in response to scientists’ increasingly dire warnings. MORE
Cyanotoxins in the state’s second-largest freshwater lake soared this month amid a hot, dry summer. Colorful blooms of cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae, paint the nearshore waters of Clear Lake, California’s second-largest freshwater lake. MORE
A UCS team looked closely at an industrial fire's health effects on a fenceline community. Science and Democracy air pollution chemical fire environmental justice Houston Texas MORE
Look towards the Sun during a total solar eclipse (taking proper precautions of course) and you’ll see a beautiful, crown-shaped glow surrounding the Moon. It’s the solar corona – a hot plasma that extends millions of kilometres out into space. MORE
The Biden Administration has made an announcement that it seeks to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat exposure. What does the theory of compensating differentials in real estate markets and labor markets teach us about exposure to high temperatures. I maintain two assumptions. Assumption #1: The apartment rental market is perfectly competitive and an area's heat risk is common knowledge. If heat risk rises in a location, all market bidders are aware of this. MORE
In recent years, health and fitness wearables have gained popularity as platforms to wirelessly track daily physical activities, by counting steps, for example, or recording heartbeats directly from the wrist. MORE
Ottawa, Illinois learned how to keep its residents out of harm’s way. But on the river’s edge, safety has often required sacrifice. Flooding has long been part of life in Ottawa, Illinois. Photo © Laura Gersony / Circle of Blue. MORE
Have you ever wondered what a black hole “sounds” like? The Belgian mathematician, lecturer, and electronic musician Valery Vermeulen has created an album of electronic music that was composed using data associated with black holes. MORE
This groundbreaking report is important for three main reasons: impact, scale, and attribution. Climate Change Clean Air Act fossil fuel companies ozone Smog MORE
The top oil and gas industry trade association will do all it can to delay meaningful government action. Uncategorized API EPA methane MORE
Climate Resilience Analyst Shana Udvardy examines part of the budget reconciliation bill that would help bolster our flood resilience in the United States. Here are three reasons why it should pass. MORE
I always marvel at ants and bees. These hardworkers put their best foot forward any day. They ‘slave’ their hearts out day in day out. But are they aware that they are planning for a better tomorrow? Probably yes. What’s to be enjoyed later requires sweat to build today. Sure, their commitment to work looks laborious and sounds like druggery (repetitive and unexciting). But their focus is razor sharp. They may stumble and fall but the direction is always forward. MORE
Climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition. By Bob Berwyn Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas. MORE
Peatlands make up 3 percent of the earth’s landscape, yet absorb large amounts of carbon and harbor surprising biodiversity. Although peat bogs and fens are under increasing environmental threat, efforts to protect and restore these ecosystems are gathering momentum. Read more on E360 MORE
Water was overlooked in past global climate talks. Advocates are focusing on the Glasgow meeting to highlight water’s indispensable climate role. Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. MORE
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are fascinating devices where layers of organic molecules or polymers carry out light absorption and subsequent transport of energy – the tasks that make a solar cell work. MORE
A fishing community along the Sesan River in northeastern Cambodia. The construction of a giant dam has flooded large parts of the surrounding area. Wonders of the Mekong. The rivers are an ecological bounty in the Mekong watershed. MORE
A structural colour technology that produces concentric rainbows could help autonomous vehicles read road signs, scientists in the US and China claim. MORE
Gunshots were heard just outside of his house. Infact, the noise was too much for him to get some sleep after working all night. He had two jobs… But not the kind we imagine… During the day, he sold sweets and other small commmodities at the bus stage. But for two weeks, he had also been working night shift at a local construction site. At least he could afford to put something on the table. It wasn’t enough but better than nothing. MORE
Scientists are collecting photographs of the insects’ eggs to train an algorithm and curtail their rapid spread. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Advances Biology Animals Environment MORE
Politico reports on t he policy challenge that the Biden Administration faces. There are thousands of Haitian immigrants living in squalid conditions under the Del Rio International Bridge. A dynamic incentives issue arises. If the Biden Administration engages in humane policies to help these immigrants then this will attract more immigrants to move to the area as they will anticipate that they will be treated well. MORE
Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise. MORE
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
A UCS team looked closely at an industrial fire's health effects on a fenceline community. Science and Democracy air pollution chemical fire environmental justice Houston Texas
Cleannovate
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Gunshots were heard just outside of his house. Infact, the noise was too much for him to get some sleep after working all night. He had two jobs… But not the kind we imagine… During the day, he sold sweets and other small commmodities at the bus stage. But for two weeks, he had also been working night shift at a local construction site. At least he could afford to put something on the table. It wasn’t enough but better than nothing.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Rebecca Boehm, an economist with the UCS Food and Environment Program, looked at Arkansas and the biggest poultry producer in the state, Tyson Foods, as a case study and published her findings in August in conjunction with a Guardian investigative story.
Environmental and Urban Economics
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The Biden Administration has made an announcement that it seeks to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat exposure. What does the theory of compensating differentials in real estate markets and labor markets teach us about exposure to high temperatures. I maintain two assumptions. Assumption #1: The apartment rental market is perfectly competitive and an area's heat risk is common knowledge. If heat risk rises in a location, all market bidders are aware of this.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Standard remedies offer little relief for the itchy rash caused by the plant, but researchers have found promising clues in the immune system. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. The Science of Health Health Medicine Vaccines
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise.
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Environmental and Urban Economics
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Politico reports on t he policy challenge that the Biden Administration faces. There are thousands of Haitian immigrants living in squalid conditions under the Del Rio International Bridge. A dynamic incentives issue arises. If the Biden Administration engages in humane policies to help these immigrants then this will attract more immigrants to move to the area as they will anticipate that they will be treated well.
Cleannovate
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
I always marvel at ants and bees. These hardworkers put their best foot forward any day. They ‘slave’ their hearts out day in day out. But are they aware that they are planning for a better tomorrow? Probably yes. What’s to be enjoyed later requires sweat to build today. Sure, their commitment to work looks laborious and sounds like druggery (repetitive and unexciting). But their focus is razor sharp. They may stumble and fall but the direction is always forward.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
The Galileo Project seeks to train telescopes on unidentified aerial phenomena. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Space & Physics Extraterrestrial Life
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
A new “time lens” that can magnify the difference in arrival times between individual photons within an ultra-short pulse has been developed by researchers in the US.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
The top oil and gas industry trade association will do all it can to delay meaningful government action. Uncategorized API EPA methane
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Peatlands make up 3 percent of the earth’s landscape, yet absorb large amounts of carbon and harbor surprising biodiversity. Although peat bogs and fens are under increasing environmental threat, efforts to protect and restore these ecosystems are gathering momentum. Read more on E360
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Water was overlooked in past global climate talks. Advocates are focusing on the Glasgow meeting to highlight water’s indispensable climate role. Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
Its structural attributes and physiological effects make it an ideal tool for learning cardiology; studying heart-brain interactions; and dispensing neuro-cardiac therapy. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Health Medicine
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
In recent years, health and fitness wearables have gained popularity as platforms to wirelessly track daily physical activities, by counting steps, for example, or recording heartbeats directly from the wrist.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Emissions from diesel trucks and buses don’t just release higher levels of air pollution, they are also local in their effects and in Oregon disproportionately impact low-income individuals. Uncategorized air pollution heavy-duty trucks NOx pm 2.5
Yale E360
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
James Gustave Speth has been calling for action on climate since serving in the White House in the 1970s. In an e360 interview, he talks about his new book, which chronicles how successive U.S. administrations repeatedly failed to act in response to scientists’ increasingly dire warnings.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Cyanotoxins in the state’s second-largest freshwater lake soared this month amid a hot, dry summer. Colorful blooms of cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae, paint the nearshore waters of Clear Lake, California’s second-largest freshwater lake.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Scientists are collecting photographs of the insects’ eggs to train an algorithm and curtail their rapid spread. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Advances Biology Animals Environment
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
A structural colour technology that produces concentric rainbows could help autonomous vehicles read road signs, scientists in the US and China claim.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Brian Leiter at Chicago is once again doing his occasional series identifying the top cited legal scholars in the United States in a range of substantive areas.
Environmental Leader
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Sustainable packaging company DS Smith is investing more than $8.8 million to expand its anaerobic treatment facility to create…. The post DS Smith Invests in Biogas Creation appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Florida governor Ron DeSantis and politicians in Texas say research does not support mask mandates. Many studies show they are wrong. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Health Public Health
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Look towards the Sun during a total solar eclipse (taking proper precautions of course) and you’ll see a beautiful, crown-shaped glow surrounding the Moon. It’s the solar corona – a hot plasma that extends millions of kilometres out into space.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
This groundbreaking report is important for three main reasons: impact, scale, and attribution. Climate Change Clean Air Act fossil fuel companies ozone Smog
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Ottawa, Illinois learned how to keep its residents out of harm’s way. But on the river’s edge, safety has often required sacrifice. Flooding has long been part of life in Ottawa, Illinois. Photo © Laura Gersony / Circle of Blue.
Inside Climate News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition. By Bob Berwyn Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas.
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
How to increase the consideration of female candidates for male-gendered roles. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Social Sciences Diversity Inequality
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are fascinating devices where layers of organic molecules or polymers carry out light absorption and subsequent transport of energy – the tasks that make a solar cell work.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Climate Resilience Analyst Shana Udvardy examines part of the budget reconciliation bill that would help bolster our flood resilience in the United States. Here are three reasons why it should pass.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
A fishing community along the Sesan River in northeastern Cambodia. The construction of a giant dam has flooded large parts of the surrounding area. Wonders of the Mekong. The rivers are an ecological bounty in the Mekong watershed.
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ECOJUSTICE, ONTARIO NATURE. Developer withdraws permit application for Provincially Significant Wetland .
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Four centuries after Descartes declared them to be mere machines that didn’t feel fear or pain, we’re still acting as though we don’t know better. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. Health Ethics
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Have you ever wondered what a black hole “sounds” like? The Belgian mathematician, lecturer, and electronic musician Valery Vermeulen has created an album of electronic music that was composed using data associated with black holes.
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