WASHINGTON – The marble façade of the U.S. Supreme Court building proclaims a high ideal: “Equal Justice Under Law.”
But inside, an elite cadre of lawyers has emerged […]
Swedish hybrid bus system
The Swedish city of Södertälje will be launching a pilot project in 2016 utilizing a Scania hybrid-electric bus that can be wirelessly recharged in only ~7 minutes, based on a recent press release.
Needless to say, if the technology proves successful, the buses could help cities cut down significantly on their fuel use and costs (with regard to municipal transportation systems, at least).
The potential for reducing carbon emissions is also worth considering — something the Scandinavian countries often seem to take into consideration during policy-making decisions.
“To build an infrastructure and convert bus fleets to vehicles that run exclusively on electricity will provide many advantages for a city,” stated Håkan Sundelin, a research and development coordinator for Scania, while commenting on the project. “With a fleet of 2,000 buses, the city can save up to 50 million litres of fuel each year. This means the fuel costs decrease by up to 90%.”
A 90% cut in fuel use is nothing to sneeze at. That’s real savings there.
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Paul Krugman
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Maybe I’m just projecting, but Christmas seemed unusually subdued this year. The malls seemed less crowded than usual, the people glummer. There was even less Muzak in the air. And, in a way, that’s not surprising: All year Americans have been bombarded with dire news reports portraying a world out of control and a clueless government with no idea what to do.
Yet if you look back at what actually happened over the past year, you see something completely different. Amid all the derision, a number of major government policies worked just fine — and the biggest successes involved the most derided policies. You’ll never hear this on Fox News, but 2014 was a year in which the federal government, in particular, showed that it can do some important things very well if it wants to.
Start with Ebola, a subject that has vanished from the headlines so fast it’s hard to remember how pervasive the panic was just a few weeks ago. Judging from […]
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On a recent Saturday Matt Owens, the owner of Trenton Street Golf Course in West Monroe, sat indoors facing the entrance to his course and greeted golfers. In this town of 13,000 inhabitants with a love of fried catfish and a reverence for “Duck Dynasty”, a television show about hunters whose stars live nearby, golf used to be a regular indulgence for many, and that mild autumn weekend was ideal golf weather. Yet by the end of the afternoon Mr Owens had taken in only around $200 in green fees, a tenth of what his course earned on Saturdays a few years ago.
On weekends Mr Owens’s 12-year-old course once swelled with golfers, but that ended when the economy sliced into the rough in 2008. He offers prices “affordable for rednecks”, but bargains are not enough to bring back customers. “I sometimes believe that I could give golf away, and they still wouldn’t come,” he says. At the end of December he will close the course, and it […]
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects more than 5 million Americans; worldwide, it affects more than 30 million people. It is the sixth leading cause of death [3] in the United States, after heart disease, cancers, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke and accidents.
In a recently published paper [4], Dale Bredesen at the Buck Institute [5] showed that 9 of 10 patients participating in a program showed reversal of cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Six of the 10 study participants had had to leave work, or were struggling at their jobs, due to AD; after going through the program, all were able to return to work or to continue working at better performance levels.
This is the first time anyone has shown it may be possible to reverse memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s. Six of the 10 patients who had left work or were struggling due to memory impairment were able to return to work or keep working with improved performance.
To quote from the abstract:
“The first 10 […]
Remote Viewing the Year 2060
