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U. of Iowa researchers find smoke impacts on severity of tornados

Green Car Congress

University of Iowa researchers have found that smoke resulting from spring agricultural land-clearing fires in Central America and transported across the Gulf of Mexico intensified tornado conditions already in process in the United States. —Pablo Saide. Resources. Saide1, S. Pierce, J. Schaack, A. Heidinger, A. da Silva, M.

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

We saw pink fish, gleaming airplanes and chile peppers. We had flown to Kumasi to visit the Department of Painting and Sculpture at KNUST, an expansive campus in the west of the city and probably the greenest university I have ever seen. There was only one check-in desk, and the baggage claim was a single, eight-foot track.

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Is Worldcoin a Crypto-currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?

Cars That Think

Potential applications include tackling fake profiles on social media, distributing a global universal basic income (UBI), and empowering new forms of digital democracy. So far, Worldcoin has signed up more than 700,000 users in some 25 countries, including Chile, France, and Kenya. It’s really hard to revoke and reissue your iris.” –.