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Vallejo Inventor's Lab to close, go mobile as funding dries up
Times-Herald, Vallejo, Calif.After serving thousands of students, the Inventor's Lab in South Vallejo will close its doors Saturday and begin its transition into a mobile center. "We lost our funding," said Reyna Hamilton, coordinator of the lab that for two years has been...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Invention and Innovation, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Rentals
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The red herring of human gene patents
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....
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Suwanee science club wins Georgia competition with invention for senior citizens
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAn after-school science club's tournament-winning invention likely won't interest kids, or even teens. Members of the First Lego League in Suwanee won over judges and their target audience by designing a product to help seniors get out of chairs -- an...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Northeast High science students have Obama pedaling for clean water
Miami HeraldThe road to the White House isn't easy -- even if you do happen to have an amazing water-purifying bicycle. But thanks to the hard work of many at Northeast High School, and the support of community businesses ranging from a car dealership to a bagel...Tags: Invention and Innovation, White House, Bagels, Students, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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RPT-Obama celebrates young inventors at White House science fair
Reuters(Repeats for wider subscribers) By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hopped on a mountain bike that was mounted on blocks and pedaled away, taking part in a science experiment on how to filter unsafe drinking...Tags: Invention and Innovation, White House, Pancreatic Cancer, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Haiti Earthquake (2010)
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Head: Oakland Park students head to White House to showcase invention to President Obama
Two students from Oakland Park’s Northeast High traveled to the third annual White House Science Fair on Monday to showcase their Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam project to President Obama. According to a news release, the students were among...
Tags: Invention and Innovation, White House, Science, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Students
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At JPL, teens learn rocket science by crafting toilet paper catapults
High school students have been known to sling a roll or two of toilet paper — but not many use catapults or compete with rocket scientists for the longest heave. Yet that was the task Friday at the 15th annual Invention Challenge at Jet...
Tags: Invention and Innovation, Schools, NASA, Students, Engineering
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Head of Clean Energy Trust working to change world
Tribune staff reporterAmy Francetic was at a child's birthday party in 2004 when she decided it was time to leave Silicon Valley. "I was sitting there listening to 6-year-olds talk about IPOs and whose house was bigger and how much a wedding dress cost," she said. By...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment, Apple iPhone, United Air Lines, Philosophy
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Congressional candidate profiles
MEET THE CANDIDATES When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Frederick County (Virginia), Entertainment, State Income Tax, Small Businesses
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UCSD researcher awarded National Medal of Science
SAN DIEGO -- President Barack Obama Tuesday named a San Diego biomedical engineering professor as a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
Shu Chien of UC San Diego is one of seven eminent researchers chosen for the annual honor, The White House...Tags: Rice University, Invention and Innovation, Government, White House, Science
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Paper-thin computers can be rolled up, stuffed in a pocket [Video]
L.A. Times Tech BlogIt's one invention that is sure to set science fiction fans all agog: a paper-thin computer that can be rolled up and stuffed in a pocket. Researchers at the Queens University Human Media Lab in Ontario, Canada, have developed a...... -
Ideas, Discoveries and Aeronautics at Lincolnwood’s Annual Science Fair
TribLocal - EvanstonIn a packed gym last Thursday, February 10th, a record number of aspiring scientists and inventors took part in the annual Lincolnwood School Science Fair. …...
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