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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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Andrew Caplin, Masoud Ghandehari, Chris Lim, Paul Glimcher & George Thurston (2019) “Advancing environmental exposure assessment science to benefit society” Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 1236 doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09155-4.

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The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling

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The Ins and Outs of Scrap Car Recycling Maximizing Value at the End of a Car’s Life This article may contain affiliate links. Individuals become agents of transformation within their neighborhoods, collectively advancing the cause.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong.

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Tesla Not Disruptive, Future Is Tiny Electric 'Golf Carts': Harvard Scholar

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Friday's the day we use for the stranger and more oddball stories in our lineup, and one of the more unusual we've seen in a while comes from Harvard University. It's an article--actually a handful of articles--covering research by a scholar of "disruption" who argues that Silicon Valley startup carmaker Tesla Motors isn't disruptive.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Her insights greatly helped with this article. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by LEMO. His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. He named it after the Toronto neighborhood where he still lives — Thornhill Medical. A bomb explodes — medical devices set to action.

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