NASA’s James Hansen, a controversial and highly vocal voice of alarm about the planet’s changing climate, will retire as the director of the Goddard space institute, NASA announced Tuesday — and plans to immediately sue his former employer.
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NASA top climate scientist James Hansen to retire from Goddard Institute, sue gov’t
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on April 2, 2013
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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announces Top Safety Picks+
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on March 8, 2013
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has announced the five vehicles awarded with its Top Safety Picks+ designation. The awards are based on each vehicle’s performance in crash tests, with the goal being to encourage safer vehicles. This has been successful, with the Institute stating that some automakers have made changes to their vehicles in
Here’s the 3D printing institute in Obama’s State of the Union
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on February 13, 2013
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The president wants you to know about the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio, and its plans to print the future. [Read more]
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Tim Berners-Lee’s Open Data Institute Gets Its First Outside Investment, $750K From The Omidyar Network To Top Up UK’s $16M
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on December 3, 2012
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The Open Data Institute, a UK-based incubator and promoter of open-data businesses that was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee and artificial intelligence pioneer Nigel Shadbolt, is today announcing its first international investment. The Omidyar Network, the investment firm co-founded by eBay’s Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, is putting $ 750,000 towards early funding of open data startups. The money comes on top of the £10 million ($ 16 million) that the UK government has already committed over the next five years for the project.
Founder Institute Quietly Expands Into The Middle East, With Focus On Supporting Female Entrepreneurs
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on November 9, 2012
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Talk to 500 Startups’ Dave McClure about what’s important for his seed fund and accelerator going forward and, it’s not just about finding and supporting whiz-bang entrepreneurs, it’s supporting entrepreneurial and ecosystem growth outside of the U.S. Many of the top accelerators in the U.S. have been working to expand their programs and networks at home and abroad before the accelerator bubble bursts.
Adeo Ressi and Founder Institute are of the same mindset and, in many ways, they have a head start on the international front. In December of last year, Founder Institute already claimed to be the largest accelerator (in terms of graduates), with over 20 percent (100+) hailing from overseas.
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The Emily Post Institute on the new rules of tech etiquette
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on November 8, 2012
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Butlers, lunar rovers, snakes and airboats: the best of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute
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on October 27, 2012
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How was your week? We got to spend a couple of days trekking around the Carnegie Mellon campus in Pittsburgh, PA to check out some of the latest projects from the school’s world renowned Robotics Institute — a trip that culminated with the bi-annual induction ceremony from the CMU-sponsored Robot Hall of Fame. Given all the craziness of the past seven days, you might have missed some of the awesomeness, but fear not, we’ve got it all for you here in one handy place — plus a couple of videos from the trip that we haven’t shown you yet. Join us after the break to catch up.
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Google Cultural Institute Adds 42 Exhibitions: Brings Stories Of D-Day, Apartheid, Holocaust Online
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on October 10, 2012
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Google’s Cultural Institute expanded its work with museums, foundations and other archives to bring online 42 new historical exhibitions which help tell the stories of several major events taking place over the past century. Working with 17 partners on this latest effort, the online exhibitions debuting today include stories of Apartheid, D-Day, and the Holocaust told through letters, photos, video and other documents.
Meet The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Video)
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on October 8, 2012
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Discussions about ethics and technology are perennial Slashdot staples. But if you want to frequent a site that is about ethics and technology and almost nothing else, with a strong science fiction bent to it, you might want to check out the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET.org) website. Here to introduce us to IEET and tell us what it’s about, we have IEET Managing Director Hank Pellissier in a remote video interview we made through Skype.
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Max Planck Institute sequences genome of Siberian girl from 80,000 years ago, smashes DNA barriers
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on September 3, 2012
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We’ve known little of the genetic sequences of our precursors, despite having found many examples of their remains: the requirement for two strands in traditional DNA sequencing isn’t much help when we’re usually thankful to get just one. The Max Planck Institute has devised a new, single-strand technique that may very well fill in the complete picture. Binding specific molecules to a strand, so enzymes can copy the sequence, has let researchers make at least one pass over 99.9 percent of the genome of a Siberian girl from roughly 80,000 years ago — giving science the most complete genetic picture of any human ancestor to date, all from the one bone you see above. The gene map tells us that the brown-skinned, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl was part of a splinter population known as the Denisovans that sat in between Neanderthals and ourselves, having forked the family tree hundreds of thousands of years before today. It also shows that there’s a small trace of Denisovans and their Neanderthal roots in modern East Asia, which we would never have known just by staring at fossils. Future discoveries could take years to leave an impact, but MPI may have just opened the floodgates of knowledge for our collective history.
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Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real
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on February 21, 2012
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The Bad Astronomer writes “Last week, an anonymous source leaked several internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a non-profit think tank known for anti-global-warming rhetoric. The leaker has come forward: Peter Gleick, scientist and journalist. In his admission, he cites his own breach of ethics, but also maintains that all the documents are real. This includes the potentially embarrassing ’2012 Climate Strategy’ document stating that Heartland wants to ‘dissuade teachers from teaching science.’ Heartland still claims this document is a forgery, but there is no solid evidence either way.”
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Nascent Graphene Institute Makes Steps Toward Transistors
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on February 6, 2012
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judgecorp writes “A research team at Manchester has taken a big step toward building transistors with graphene. So far graphene’s marvelous conductivity has actually proved a drawback, but the team has sandwiched a layer of molybdenum disulfide between layers of graphene to provide a high on/off ratio. Also, the British Government is finding £50 million to fund Manchester as a center for graphene study and development, led by two professors there, Sir Kostya Novoselov and Sir Andre Geim, who shared the 2010 Nobel prize for Physics for their work on graphene.”
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Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents
Layzej writes “Bloggers around the world have been commenting on recently leaked Heartland Institute documents that reveal their internal strategies to discredit climate science. These posters are now under threat of legal action. According to the Heartland Institute ‘the individuals who have commented so far on these documents did not wait for Heartland to confirm or deny the authenticity of the documents. We believe their actions constitute civil and possibly criminal offenses for which we plan to pursue charges and collect payment for damages’”
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