AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on just one voice
New Scientist
MAY 16, 2024
You can blank out certain types of background noise and focus on just one conversation using prototype noise-cancelling headphones
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Physicists can complete our amazing, imperfect picture of reality
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
The quest to finally fill in the blanks should be treated not with frustration but joyful anticipation On its 50th anniversary, the standard model of particle physics remains an unfinished masterpiece.
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“Juries cannot simply pick a number and put it in the blank.” – Texas Supreme Court Remands Case Involving $15 Million Jury Award for Noneconomic Damages Where Award was Unsupported and Arguments to the Jury Unsubstantiated
The Energy Law Blog
JUNE 21, 2023
Juries cannot simply pick a number and put it in the blank.” “While the impossibility of any exact evaluation of mental anguish requires that juries be given a measure of discretion in finding damages, that discretion is limited.” Bunton , 94 S.W.3d 3d 561, 606 ( quoting Saenz , 925 S.W.2d 2d at 614).
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A Blank Wall Can Show How Many People Are in a Room and What They're Doing
Scientific American
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The technique is the latest method to glean a surprising amount of surveillance from a meager source. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.
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Complete Your Bracket! Penn State Center For Pollinator Research Wants You To Vote In March Madness Bee Of The Year Contest
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 23, 2023
Download a blank Bee Championship bracket. Your vote will help decide what two bee species will compete on April 3rd in the final championship round. Play along by creating a bracket of your winning picks of each round. Click Here for more information. Questions should be directed to Heather Frantz at hud192@psu.edu.
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Great Expectations: Packaging EPR offers much. Are we expecting too much?
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
They may not cover all costs, after all, producers won’t write a blank check. Read the full story at Waste360. EPR’s core strength is money. Local governments will benefit as producers cover their recycling costs. Yet even if that group only pays 95 cents on the dollar, local governments will come out way ahead.
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Legal Planet
JANUARY 11, 2024
And one is now a blank page). Today’s post provides a directory to the clinics. There are several sites that promise comprehensive lists of environmental law clinics, but each list has gaps and some links to nonclinical programs. (And I’ve combined the information from the lists and added a few additional clinics.
Environmental Defence Experts React to the 2024 Ontario Budget
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 26, 2024
Subsidizing inefficient sprawl with a blank check for limited access highways and most of the $1.8 This budget would use public money to divert scarce construction labour and materials away from the denser forms and the existing neighbourhoods where it would house far more families much faster.
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PA Resources Council Launches New What's Up Watershed? Educational Series
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 4, 2024
"When people ask me what I do for a living, I often lose them as soon as I mention the word “watershed.”" "Most people have seen signs while driving on the highway that say, “Entering ‘Fill in the Blank’ Watershed.” "But But if you’re anything like my friends and family, you likely have no idea what those signs are talking about!
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The Board of Lockheed Martin Has Spoken: Climate Change May Proceed
Corp Watch
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Lockheed was recently asked point-blank if it will address its role in worsening climate change. Its answer: no.
“Harmony” in a Texas Mineral Reservation
Energy & the Law
AUGUST 9, 2023
Nancy filled in the blanks and everyone signed. The Mineral Reservation Addendum checked the box, “Seller reserves an undivided 40% interest in the mineral estate owned by Seller. NOTE: If Seller does not own all of the mineral estate, Seller reserves only this percentage or fraction of Seller’s interest.
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Arnold & Porter Advises Xoriant Corporation’s Acquisition by ChrysCapital
Arnold Porter
JANUARY 11, 2023
The Arnold & Porter team was led by partner Niket Rele and also included partner Ben Fackler, senior associate Isaac Chao, and associates John Fiorenzo and Stefan Weidemann on corporate issues; partner Uri Horowitz, counsel Joshua Alloy, and associate Kathryn Geoffroy on benefits and labor issues; partner Tom Magnani and senior attorney Joshua (..)
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“We Can’t Have Land Back Without Water Back”
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2021
There needs to be more Indigenous women in water spaces, point blank,” she said. To ensure that Indigenous knowledge is incorporated into water management solutions, she stressed that Indigenous people, particularly women, must have a seat at the table when policies are being discussed. Water spaces are predominantly white older men.
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Law Firms Respond to Recent Lawsuits Targeting SPACs
Arnold Porter
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
As a legal matter, SPACs will likely be able to argue by analogy that they, like other “blank check” companies recognized by the SEC, are not subject to the 1940 Act. Among other things, the rule governs offerings of blank check companies that issue penny stock. ” Daniel S. 931, 944 (2007).
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This Climate Debate is a lot of Hot Air
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
It’s possible that in the coming days and weeks, we’ll hear about more rogue experiments by commercially driven startups that want to test out their model for cooling the planet, be it stratospheric aerosol injection or iron salt aerosol interactions or fill-in-the-blank technology I’ve never heard of.
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PA Resources Council To Honor Former DEP Secretary David Hess With The Fox Calhoun Award At Virtual Awards Celebration Oct. 14
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Fox Rothschild LLP, Branton Strategies LLC, Blank Rome LLP, Aqua America, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Eldredge, Inc., “The annual Awards Celebration raises funds critical for our waste reduction, recycling, education, watershed protection and advocacy efforts,” said Spielman. Monroe Energy, PECO and Post & Schell.
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Incoming Shapiro-Davis Administration Names Members Of Environment/Energy Transition Advisory Committee
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Thrush , MPA, Senior Director of Government Affairs, PennFuture -- John Walliser , Senior Vice President - Legal & Government Affairs, Pennsylvania Environmental Council -- Shannon Waterman Dawson , Senior Associate, Wojdak Government Relations -- Jennifer Fields , Managing Partner, ACRI Environmental Group LLC Energy -- Joel Dominguez , President (..)
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7 Takeaways from the Maritime Investigations Presentation at This Year’s Work Boat Show in New Orleans
The Energy Law Blog
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Organized by Sean Pribyl, an ex-Coast Guard lawyer who practices at Blank Rome’s office in Washington D.C., Attorney, Environmental Crimes Sean Pribyl, Blank Rome LCDR Damian Yemma, Legal Advisor to the U.S. Thank you very much to the panelists – it was a good program.
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Three River Communities, Worlds Apart, Tell Stories of Indigeneity in the Age of the Anthropocene
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 10, 2021
The man who the police hand over has no recollection of his three months in jail; the trauma has blanked his memory. It travels north along the Mahakam River, and two days later arrives in the central highlands of Borneo’s ancient rainforests. According to the official report he was forced to sign, his stay in custody lasted only a day. .
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Feature: Native Plant Meadows Experience ‘Growing Pains’
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 23, 2022
Starting with this blank slate is essential to prevent the meadow from becoming overgrown with weeds. This stage could last through winter, as the seeds might not begin to grow until spring. A cover crop may be used as a temporary species to provide soil coverage before the native species begin to grow.
How to spark an interest: advice for giving engaging physics presentations to pre-university students
Physics World
JULY 1, 2021
Insert a blank slide wherever you have something to say and don’t want the audience looking at the last or the next slide. Cartwheeling text entering stage left is just a distraction. Avoid using the slides as a set of crib sheets for what you want to say. If necessary, use separate notes or the computer screen notes facility in PowerPoint.
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Friend or foe? Machine learning and how it is shaping our lives
Physics World
MAY 5, 2021
Can a robot take a blank canvas and turn it into a masterpiece?” “Can a robot write a symphony? So asks Will Smith’s Detective Del Spooner of the artificial being Sonny, in a memorable scene from the 2004 film I, Robot. Sonny, portrayed by Alan Tudyk, retorts with a question of his own: “Can you?”.
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Innovation in Stormwater Research: The Q-Methodology
Washington Nature
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Blank Q-Board we used in our study. These efforts – in concert with keywords, quotes, and reactions pulled from the interviews – result in a deeper understanding and ability to explain the shared viewpoints of the discourses. Participants sorted statements into boxes until the entire board was filled.
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Insurance Dept.: Information For Homeowners, Business Owners On Damage Claims Following Storms, Flooding
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Get everything in writing, including the total cost for repairs, the work to be completed, the timetable for completion, and contractor guarantees. -- Don’t sign paperwork with sections left blank for someone to fill-in later, and don’t pay a contractor in full or sign that the work is complete until the work is completed.
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The European Court of Human Rights’ April 9 Climate Rulings and the Future (Thereof)
Law Columbia
APRIL 29, 2024
But nothing prevented the ECtHR from addressing it nonetheless. Admittedly, no decision on youngsters’ victim status is probably preferable to a sparsely reasoned decision blankly denying them such status.
Ocean Resources for Kids of All Ages
Ocean Conservancy
MAY 11, 2023
With educational music videos, puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, photos and so much more, the National Geographic Kids Ocean Portal has your children covered when it comes to exploring and learning about our ocean and the wildlife that live there. Nat Geo Ocean Portal Did you know that a shark can grow and lose up to 30,000 teeth in its lifetime?
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Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash
PA Environment Daily
MAY 13, 2022
In effect, they’ve been handed a blank check to throw their waste into our air, into our yards, and into our playgrounds, threatening our kids’ lives and health. We’ve known that the industry releases 5 times more fugitive methane and 9 times more volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) than they report to our Commonwealth. Read more here.]
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DEP Blog: Abandoned Coal Mine Reforestation Initiatives Healing The Land
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
After a site has been chosen, the goal is to try to get a blank slate on the vegetation to start over. If present, invasive species of plants (which are harmful to the natural ecology) and cool season grass which had been planted by mining companies and are not native to the area, are eradicated.
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Analysis: Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal
A Greener Life
APRIL 1, 2022
Calling the reports “nicely complementary”, NASEM author David Koweek says the Aspen report helps to fill in the blanks on what the ethical, responsible CDR research that NASEM calls for actually looks like in practice.
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No Free Ride on Expropriation Costs
Law of the Lands
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Put another way, “the statutory protection provided by the Act is not a blank cheque that permits a claimant to act unreasonably.”
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NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities
Science Blogs
AUGUST 21, 2017
A new satellite, called GOES-16, should fill in some of the blanks and provide finer resolution data. For instance, air pollution is worse during rush hour, but many of the older satellites only pass over an area once a day, so the differences in air quality between morning and afternoon rush hour are not seen.
Having the Fox Guard the Henhouse?
Legal Planet
JUNE 26, 2023
However, other provisions seems to prevent the agency from giving the applicant a blank check. Content of the agency regulations. Section 107(f) does not speak to the content of the agency regulations.
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Discovery in the brains of army veterans with chronic pain could pave way for personalized treatments
Frontiers
MAY 9, 2022
A new study in Frontiers in Pain Research has filled in some of the blanks. However, most previous research investigated them in isolation and using subjective measures such as surveys, leading to an incomplete picture.
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Most read article of May 2022: Surprising finding shows children grow faster during the school year than summer vacation
Frontiers
JUNE 2, 2022
A recent study in Frontiers in Pain Research has filled in some of the blanks. However, most previous research investigated them in isolation and using subjective measures such as surveys, leading to an incomplete picture.
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A Radical Proposal Hidden in Plain Sight in the Overshoot Commission Report
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Rightly wary of the risk that his headroom may create a new class of entrenched Petro-states, the Commission stresses that this differentiation is not a blank check: it is a time-limited opportunity to access resources for development, after which everyone is on the same train to zero.
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Blown away by the wonders of glass at Corning’s spectacular museum
Physics World
JUNE 15, 2022
Mirror blank: George V McCauley (designer), 1934. Testing ground The Innovation Center at the Corning Museum of Glass is home to this massive, 5.1 m-diameter glass disc, which was built in the 1930s as a prototype for the Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. Courtesy: The Corning Museum of Glass).
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Is Personal Jurisdiction "Built for the Road Ahead?" A Closer Look at Ford v. Montana
Arnold Porter
JUNE 2, 2021
This outcome could also invite forum shopping, making it more likely that plaintiffs file suit in their preferred forum and then use jurisdictional discovery to fill in the blanks to determine the extent of a defendant's forum contacts.
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New Satellite Will See Water’s Big Picture
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
But for large swathes of the world that are essentially a blank space for hydrological information, the mission will be a revolution. SWOT won’t detect changes in creeks or a flash flood that arises after an hour-long downpour. And it won’t transmit data every 15 minutes like a U.S. Geological Survey river gauge. But data is also power.
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TribLive Guest Essay: EPA Must Address Natural Gas Leaks That Are Harming Our Children
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 6, 2022
They’ve been handed a blank check to allow gas to leak into the air we breathe in our yards and playgrounds, threatening our kids’ lives and health. In Pennsylvania, the oil and gas industry has been a major source of leaking gas and pollution.
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Dept. Of Health Visits Communities And Families Impacted By Shale Gas Development, Hears Firsthand Accounts Of Health Harms
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 7, 2021
Alison Beam, Acting Secretary of Health, was on the tour, as did Raphael Barishansky, Deputy Secretary of Health Preparedness and Community Protection, Peter Blank, Director of Policy), and Barry Ciccocioppo, Director of Communications.
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FDA Releases Guidance on the Drug Supply Chain Security Act
Arnold Porter
JUNE 9, 2021
Location of 2D data matrix barcode: FDA recommended that in “situations where multiple barcodes are affixed to, or imprinted upon, a package, each barcode should be surrounded by sufficient blank space to avoid confusion and ensure that the barcode can be scanned correctly” (e.g.,
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Guest Commentary: Dobbs v. Jackson and Juliana v. United States: “Innumerable Human Lives”
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Constitution was silent as to pregnancy and abortion, such silence lays a blank slate at state legislatures’ doorsteps, giving a free pass for any political majority of voters in gerrymandered districts to dictate what a woman may or may not do with her reproductive organs and rights. Women and living children are not faring as well.
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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
PA Environment Daily
JULY 25, 2022
Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. So the feds modeled extensive industry deference at the expense of public health protections, and then the states fell in line after that.
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Declaring a Climate Change Emergency: A Citizen’s Guide
Legal Planet
JULY 19, 2022
But an emergency declaration is not a magic wand that gives Presidents a blank check. Would it unlock important powers that could be used to fight climate change? My answers are: It would probably be legal, and it would unlock some significant powers. It would allow some constructive steps to be taken, but within limits.
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