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  Driving the green

  A company looking to purchase an electric-powered delivery truck today will likely experience some sticker shock: Such a vehicle costs nearly $150,000, compared to about $50,000 for the same kind ...

  Article - Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office - February 6, 2012

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  Study finds lure of entertainment, work hard for people to resist

  Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again? The bad news is that desires for work and entertainment often win out in the daily struggle for self-control, according to...

  Post - University of Chicago - February 6, 2012

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  Making sense of market madness

  Call it a moment of monetary mayhem that, like a partial nuclear meltdown, could have wrought unimaginable devastation had it run fully amok. On May 6 of last year, at 2:41 p.m., Wall Street’s f...

  Article - Mat Edelson - February 6, 2012

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  Banned Books Awareness: Revising history

  Most people are familiar with the classic saying, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," uttered by George Santayana. He, himself, identified as an American and wrote exclu...

  Blog - R. Wolf Baldassarro - February 6, 2012

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  How bikes can save us

  Today the car is king. Walking and pedalllng are consigned to the less convenient modes of transport. The price we pay is a large dent in our monthly budget. Research indicates that reversing that trend can produce wonderous results....

  Blog - Jen Rhee - February 5, 2012

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  Campus area farms offer lots of living lab space

  Tim Dodge, who grew up on a dairy farm and worked for seven years as a field assistant at Cornell, felt well prepared for his job as manager of 352-acre Campus Area Farms, operated by Cornell's Agricu...

  Article - Mary Woodsen _ Cornell University - February 5, 2012

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  Why universities should teach alternative medicine

  Most Australian readers would know of the current debate about universities teaching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). A core question not being addressed in this debate is what other ...

  Article - Evelin Tiralongo - February 5, 2012

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  Mysteries of Killer whales uncovered in the Antarctic

  On the afternoon of January 10, at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, whale researchers Robert L. Pitman and John W. Durban stood on the bridge of a cruise ship, peering through binoculars for si...

  Article - Fen Montaigne - February 4, 2012

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  Turning heat into power

  A team of MIT researchers has developed a way of making a high-temperature version of a kind of materials called photonic crystals, using metals such as tungsten or tantalum. The new materials — whi...

  Article - David L. Chandler, MIT News Office - February 4, 2012

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  Super models – using maths to mitigate natural disasters

  Last year will go on record as one of significant natural disasters both in Australia and overseas. Indeed, the flooding of the Brisbane River in January is still making news as the Queensland floods ...

  Article - Dr Mahesh Prakash - February 4, 2012