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Apodaca: Telecommuting not so black and white
File this one under "Are you kidding me?" Internet firm Yahoo recently banned its workers from telecommuting, and suddenly we have a nationwide debate blazing over an issue that had previously appeared settled solidly in the corner of increasing...Tags: Science and Technology, Newspaper and Magazine, Electronics, Real Estate Buyers, Marissa Mayer
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Future space explorers tour JPL
Thirty-two students in aerospace, engineering and science programs in 11 different countries descended on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week as part of a Caltech competition to design a mission to one of Mars' two moons, Phobos or Deimos. "Watching...
Tags: Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Neil Armstrong, Travel, Engineering
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Joel Brinkley: China a long way from gaining world's trust
American VoicesOn his first foreign foray as China's new president, Xi Jinping visited Russia and then Tanzania, two countries with which China has frosty relations at best. "China and Russia, as the biggest neighbors of each other, share many commonalities," Xi...Tags: Joel Brinkley, Xi Jinping, Colleges and Universities, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Punishment
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Student teams ace Mars plan at Caltech
It could take several months for aerospace experts to design a manned mission to a Martian moon. Students pulled off the feat in five days. Caltech hosted a competition on its Pasadena campus this week that divided 32 students from 21 different...
Tags: Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Colleges and Universities, Space Programs, Teaching and Learning
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Wanna lose weight? Manage your stress.
HealthScientists are aware that stress can affect your immune system, raise your blood pressure and kill your brain cells. If this is not enough to catch your attention, consider this: stress can make you fat. Stress can not only cause you to eat more, it can... -
Virginia Tech's College of Engineering unveils life-size robotic jellyfish
Researchers at Virginia Tech College of Engineering have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man as part of a U.S. Navy-funded project. The jellyfish, nicknamed “Cyro,” is 5 foot 7 inches in...
Tags: Science and Technology, Providence College, Colleges and Universities, University of California, Los Angeles, Engineering
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The California 'Mordida'
Victor Davis HansonCalifornia now works on the principle of the mordida, or "bite." Its government assumes that it can take something extra from residents for the privilege of living in their special state. Gov. Jerry Brown made that assumption explicit in his latest back-...Tags: Rick Perry, Victor Davis Hanson, Personal Income, Jerry Brown, Energy Resources
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Stanford and edX to improve online learning platform
Stanford University and edX, the online education group that is providing free classes worldwide, are announcing a new collaboration to expand and improve edX’s underlying platform and allow open access to it. The move, to be formally announced...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University, Education, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Companies and Corporations, Chicago Hotels, Finance, Barack Obama
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Mother, son team up for study skills book
Justin Muchnick likes to challenge himself to get good grades. At age 14 and away at Phillips Academy Andover school in Massachusetts he needs to live up to the challenge. Muchnick, a straight-A student, is a scholar-athlete. He went through the...
Tags: Book, Wrestling, Authors
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Air pollution linked to birth defects in San Joaquin Valley, study says
Researchers have linked air pollution and birth defects among pregnant women in the San Joaquin Valley, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine. The study looked at women between 1997 and 2006, including 806 whose pregnancies were...
Tags: Birth Defects, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Air Pollution
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Robotic jellyfish named Cyro could one day work for the Navy [video]
Meet Cyro, the latest robotic jellyfish to emerge from the engineering labs at Virginia Tech. Cyro measures 5 feet, 7 inches across and weighs in at 170 pounds. Its design was based on the real-life species Cyanea capillata, one of the largest jellyfish...
Tags: Science and Technology, Providence College, University of California, Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities, Environmental Pollution
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