The recently resigned head of the U.S. Census Bureau will head the umbrella organization that serves as an advocate and liaison to federal statistical organizations.
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No Comments »Overnight, his brother and successor Raul announced the death of the former longest serving non-royal head of a state. While we must condole with those who mourn, we must also recognise his very mixed legacy, as a Communist dictator leading a state that — per fair comment — has been very un-free and hampered in […]
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Posted in Science General Tags: 8221 felgenhauer says, Adoption, alternative, altos hills, analysis, and fuel cell, and lighting buildings, assumed, Batteries, battery, battery electric, battery electric cars, battery vehicles, benefits, Buildings, California, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, cell vehicles would, charge, Clean Energy, Climate, Coauthor, communities, community, competitive, county, cuts total emissions, demand, dioxide, Dioxide Emissions, Driven, economical, electric, Electric Vehicles, electric vehicles would, Electricity, electrolyzers, Emissions, energy, engineering, expensive, felgenhauer, focused, former, Fuel Cell Vehicles, future, generated, global, greener, greener battery, heating, Hydrogen, Infrastructure, Investing, Lighting, lighting buildings, Los Altos Hills, lowest, natural, pellow, Policymakers, powered, produced, professor, provide, reducing, research, researchers, results, scenario, Scenarios, Scholar, significantly, solar generated, Solar Power, source, Stanford, Stanford University, studies, study coauthor, surplus, surplus solar, Technology, than battery vehicles, total emissions, total energy, transportation, university, vehicle, vehicles, vehicles would, which electric No Comments »While it will be quite a while before any of us actually sees the first astronaut step foot on Mars, a new six-part miniseries debuting Monday night on the National Geographic Channel will offer a sneak-preview of what it will take to send a manned mission to the Red Planet. “Mars,” which the network is […]
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Posted in Astronomy, Science General Tags: according, actual, actually, Astronaut, Creative, daedalus, design, details, Dispatch, Documentary, entertainment, experts, fictional, former, geo prepares launch, geographic, included, involved, landing, Launch, making, manned, Manned Mission, miniseries, mission, Monday, National, National Geographic, others, People, planet, prepares, prepares launch, program, radicalmedia, Science, scripted, series, Spacesuits, Spacex, the creative team, wilkes, “mars” No Comments »I was wrong, admits political scientist Bryan Cranston, who points out that he wa’s hardly alone among those who professions had them making predictions about the US presidential election. But why were so many wrong?
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