Physics World

AUGUST 28, 2021

The equation is named after the English physicists John Rayleigh and James Jeans , the latter being the subject of a new biography: Sir James Jeans: Scientist, Philosopher and Musician , written by his son Christopher Jeans (co-authored with Alexandr Kozenko). 2021 Cosmogonic Press £25pb 294pp.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

One of the Christmas classics is the Jimmy Stewart movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. George Bailey, Stewart’s character, is despondent about his life but then learns how much he has unknowingly helped others and how grateful they are. It’s heartwarming, if also a bit corny. These are what economists call public goods.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 9, 2024

Switzerland (“ KlimaSeniorinnen ”), the Court held that by failing to put in place a domestic regulatory framework for climate change mitigation, the Swiss government violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the right to respect for private and family life.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 29, 2021

On petition for review the Supreme Court affirmed (see Gray Reed partner Paul Yale’s observations on that one) on some issues but concluded that the ORRI must be reformed, if possible, in accordance with Section 5.043, and that Section 5.043 is not subject to a four-year statute of limitations. The reservation.

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Energy & the Law

MAY 17, 2023

Let’s hear from those who know more about the subject than I: Daniel Markind in Forbes focuses the legal and financial challenges faced by New York State’s natural gas ban (60% of New York’s energy comes from fossil fuels). Is the push to electrify the world at the expense of oil and gas achievable and if so, at what cost?

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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

While the cobalt-60 sources only emitted gamma rays, plants on Mars would be subject to several different types of radiation, which could each affect the plants differently. To understand why, they created a virtual reality scenario in which a human subject perceives that they are walking through high grass towards a hidden rattling snake.

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PBS Nature

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This blue-chip Nature special explores the life of this incredible raptor with a depth and intimacy never before attempted. The moment I began observing the family that would become the film’s iconic subjects, I knew theirs was a story that would resonate with Nature viewers.”. The post About appeared first on Nature.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

The researchers studied the uptake of carbon-11 ( 11 C)-BU99008 in diseased brain regions of patients with late-life cognitive impairment compared with healthy patients. for cognitively impaired subjects and 77.7 Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/ Psychiatry 10.1038/s41380-021-01193-z). Global tracer uptake was 82.7 in healthy patients.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2023

3) The legislature shall provide adequate remedies for the protection of the environmental life support system from degradation and provide adequate remedies to prevent unreasonable depletion and degradation of natural resources. 2) The legislature shall provide for the administration and enforcement of this duty. (3) The

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2021

Do you have a teacher in your life? The PPL Foundation’s Empowering Educators grant program provides the extra funding teachers need to bring STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) subjects to life for their students. Help us spread the word about some exciting grants to help educate our communities this school year.

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Physics World

JULY 4, 2022

Or do they indicate emotional currents intrinsic to life as a physicist? Whatever moods strike them as that work unfolds reflect only the subjective responses of individuals; the moods on show are irrelevant to the practice of physics. Or do they indicate emotional currents intrinsic to life as a physicist?

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Physics World

JULY 21, 2021

Stroke – a life-threatening condition in which a blockage or bleed cuts off the brain’s blood supply – can cause serious long-term disabilities. Compared with the able-bodied controls, stroke subjects had significantly slower walking speed, shorter step length, lower foot clearance and increased gait asymmetry. Gait training.

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Nanotech

MAY 23, 2023

A second session, scheduled for June 6, 2023 , will focus on activities of agencies with regulatory responsibilities or that engage in interagency or international collaborations on the subject of micro- and nanoplastics. The first session, on May 22, 2023, focused on activities of agencies that primarily fund or conduct research.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Ministry of the Environment and Others, from 2018, Colombia’s highest court ruled in favor of a group of 25 children and youth recognizing that their “fundamental rights of life, health, the minimum subsistence, freedom, and human dignity are substantially linked and determined by the environment and the ecosystem.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

Research shows that environmental education helps build creative thinking and relationship skills, fosters leadership qualities, and makes school subjects rich and relevant. Fostering diversity of our visitors and program participants is a goal of our strategic plan and taking our show on the road is one way to achieve that. “We

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Energy & the Law

APRIL 29, 2021

Higher CO2 levels are good for plant life but higher temperatures have fewer benefits and subject humans to higher risks. But Lomborg has an entire section entitled “How to Fix Climate Change” Is it more important to arrest rising temperatures or getting CO2 concentrations halfway back to preindustrial levels?

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Acoel

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Jeff Porter Garry Lewis owns 2000 acres in Livingston Parish, Louisiana and he has been fighting with the Army Corps of Engineers over whether any of those 2000 acres are wetlands subject to Federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction for over a decade. That era is most certainly over.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

A conservation easement is a voluntary, legally binding agreement between a landowner and a land trust that permanently protects a property’s natural values while the landowner continues to own and manage the land, subject to the permitted uses detailed in the easement. Learn about the Green Lodging Partnership initiative.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

One subject stood outside the political turmoil: environmental law. In signing the bill into law, President Nixon said: “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. In an EPA survey, 85% of the public thought pollution was a big problem.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Workers who ask people to show their vax cards or to mask-up or who are simply wearing masks themselves are also frequently subject to abuse–such as flight attendants, retail and restaurant workers, transit drivers, and others ( here, here, here , here ). And they are not the only ones being harassed.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 19, 2022

According to one theory, the first life on Earth arose at vents like these. Life on Earth arose roughly four billion years ago. The scientists thus link life’s biochemical beginnings to naturally occurring geochemical reactions. There are many competing theories for how and where life arose.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2023

Nevertheless, his life is a useful lens through which to reflect on the hopes and the fears of the new nuclear age as well as the question— left unresolved—of whether human civilization will survive the destructive forces we have set into motion. Christopher Nolan adds to this body of work with his latest film, Oppenheimer.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 9, 2022

My favorite school subjects were mathematics and theatre, my extracurricular activities were classical ballet and volleyball, and my dream was to become a taxi driver, a soccer referee, or a veterinarian. But when high school came and we had to change schools, I was faced with an exam for the first time in my life.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 20, 2023

In our “Spotlight: White Collar” video series, our white collar attorneys will talk through a broad range of subject matter expertise--from financial regulation to cryptocurrency, government contracts to national security, and life sciences to environmental law.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

However, like any energy source, there are unintended consequences like waste that needs to be safely disposed of when solar panels reach their end of life. As the solar photovoltaic market grows and then panels become obsolete, so will the volume of end of life panels. By 2050, the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

APRIL 17, 2023

In our “Spotlight: White Collar” series, our white collar attorneys will talk through a broad range of subject matter expertise--from financial regulation to cryptocurrency, government contracts to national security, and life sciences to environmental law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2023

Sprinkle (above right, and hereafter “RHS”), an MD/PhD, works at the intersection of politics and the life sciences at the UMD School of Public Policy and has published on clinical medicine, health policy, bioethics, bioengineering, biosecurity, environmental health, environmental policy, and policy history.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 27, 2023

In our “Spotlight: White Collar” series, our white collar attorneys will talk through a broad range of subject matter expertise--from financial regulation to cryptocurrency, government contracts to national security, and life sciences to environmental law.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I decided, out of all the STEM subjects, I was going to study physics and astronomy,” Altieri comments on the fact that this choice in the subject did not stem from an inner passion but from practicality. This is when Altieri’s life changed from teaching to researching. “At However, she was not 100% fulfilled.

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Frontiers

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2019, we formed Norfolk Institute with the vision of enabling human life on Earth and in space. We began investigation of the question of human sustainability in space with our first paper in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences , ‘Terraform Sustainability Assessment Framework for bioregenerative life support systems’.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Supreme Court has held, however, that our Constitution protects people from the government but doesn’t require the government to protect their rights, even the right to life. The Juliana plaintiffs tried to fill this gap using the “public trust doctrine,” but were faced with two difficulties.

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Physics World

MAY 24, 2021

Due to an overlap of clinical symptoms (for example, loss of enthusiasm, empathy or motivation) with other neurological disorders, as well as the gradual nature of its onset, it is not uncommon for patients with FTD to be misdiagnosed with late-life depression.

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JULY 10, 2021

Seife describes how Hawking, unlike most academics, actively courted the media, especially towards the end of his life. The rest of Hawking Hawking recounts stories about his personal and academic life, which was mostly spent at the University of Cambridge. In search of the real Stephen Hawking.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2021

After a few failed harvests, migration can be perceived an exit ramp to a better life. The life that awaits them, though, may not match the skills they have. Sharp droughts in Cape Town and Chennai in recent years show that, just like their rural counterparts, urban areas are subjected to stressful water crises. Big City Lights.

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Nanotech

MAY 10, 2023

government nanoplastics interagency interest group that coordinates activities on this subject across the federal agencies, who will provide highlights of agency programs and activities. The panel of speakers includes participants in the informal U.S.

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Arnold Porter

APRIL 24, 2023

In our “Spotlight: White Collar” series, our white collar attorneys will talk through a broad range of subject matter expertise--from financial regulation to cryptocurrency, government contracts to national security, and life sciences to environmental law.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When we first started this project of pairing a work of art with each one of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals , water was a subject matter that stood out,” said Zabeth Teelucksingh, GPA president. Water scarcity and access to clean drinking water are life-and-death issues for countries all over the world,” Cooper said.

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