Wegen Kostenkalkül: Fukushima ausser Kontrolle
Kritiker werfen dem Fukushima-Betreiber Tepco vor, aus Kostenkalkül auf ausreichende Sicherungsmassnahmen verzichtet zu haben. (more…)
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How to Find the Rarest of the Rare in Southern Skies
An interdisciplinary UA team is developing a computer program that will sort through up to 10 million alerts of astronomical objects each night from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will begin operations in Chile in 2022
University of Arizona computer scientists are teaming up with astronomers at the National Optical Astronomical Observatory to develop a computer program that will sort through the millions of objects detected by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and create a list of priorities for astronomers to investigate. The project has recently received a three-year INSPIRE grant, worth more than $700,000, from the National Science Foundation. (more…)
Photojournalists discuss their project on a ‘sacrificial city’
There’s a city in America that looks like a third-world country, according to photojournalists Brett Carlsen and Juan Madrid, who in a recent campus talk shared their hope that a project they have undertaken will inspire the American public to start talking about it.
In a Poynter Fellowship-sponsored classroom lecture at the School of Art, Carlsen and Madrid discussed their ongoing collaboration documenting life in Flint, Michigan. (more…)
Angriff aus Brüssel gegen Energiewende abwehren. EEG-Beihilfeverfahren ist erste Herausforderung für Gabriel und Merkel
Berlin: Der Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) hat Wirtschafts- und Energieminister Sigmar Gabriel und Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel aufgefordert, das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) und die Energiewende gegen aktuelle Angriffe der EU-Kommission zu verteidigen.
“Setzt sich die EU-Kommission durch, ist nicht nur in Deutschland die Energiewende bedroht. Denn zusätzlich zum Beihilfeverfahren will die EU-Kommission neue restriktive Vorgaben zur Förderung der erneuerbaren Energien erlassen. Das würde den Ausbau der regenerativen Energien europaweit abbremsen”, sagte der BUND-Vorsitzende Hubert Weiger. (more…)
Mitt Romney’s Face Looks Different to Republicans and Democrats
Political opinions can influence how people perceive a candidate’s facial characteristics
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that political bias can influence how people perceive the facial characteristics of a presidential candidate – even after seeing his face on TV thousands of times.
The study of Ohioans immediately before and after the 2012 presidential election showed that people’s mental representation of Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s face differed based on their political persuasion. (more…)
NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have enhanced existing GPS technologies to develop new systems for California and elsewhere to warn of hazards from earthquakes, tsunamis and extreme weather events.
The technology was demonstrated in July by forecasters at NOAA National Weather Service offices in Oxnard, Calif., and San Diego. They used it to track a summer monsoon rain event affecting Southern California and issue more accurate and timely flash flood warnings. The system uses real-time information from GPS stations upgraded with small, inexpensive seismic and meteorological sensors. (more…)
IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years
IBM Predicts – in Five Years Everything will Learn
ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Dec 2013: Today IBM unveiled the eighth annual “IBM 5 in 5“ (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.
- The classroom will learn you
- Buying local will beat online
- Doctors will routinely use your DNA to keep you well
- A digital guardian will protect you online
- The city will help you live in it
This year’s IBM 5 in 5 explores the idea that everything will learn – driven by a new era of cognitive systems where machines will learn, reason and engage with us in a more natural and personalized way. These innovations are beginning to emerge enabled by cloud computing, big data analytics and learning technologies all coming together, with the appropriate privacy and security considerations, for consumers, citizens, students and patients. (more…)
Wolfswelpe gewildert: WWF setzt Belohnung aus
WWF setzt 10.000 Euro Belohnung aus. / Deutschland hat Nachholbedarf bei Wilderei-Bekämpfung
Schon wieder wurde ein geschütztes und bedrohtes Wildtier in Deutschland illegal abgeschossen. Diesmal hat es einen Wolfswelpen in der sächsischen Lausitz erwischt. Am vergangenen Freitag wurde das Tier im Landkreis Bautzen auf einer Wiese tot aufgefunden. Für sachdienliche Hinweise, die zur Ergreifung des Täters führen, hat der WWF eine Belohnung von insgesamt 10.000 Euro ausgesetzt.
Wölfe sind nach EU-Recht und Bundesnaturschutzgesetz eine streng geschützte Art. Ihre unerlaubte Tötung stellt eine Straftat dar. Deutschland habe, so die WWF-Kritik, bei der Verfolgung von Naturschutzkriminalität großen Nachholbedarf. (more…)