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Rare Rides Icons: The Lincoln Mark Series Cars, Feeling Continental (Part XLIX)

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The Mark’s four-speed 4R70W (the old AOD with new electronic controls, also called AODE) was strengthened late in the ‘97 model run with some revised internal components for better reliability. This revised version was used on all 1998 cars and was shared by the likes of the Town Car, F-150, and Mercury Cougar.

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Dell’s Bold Idea: A Laptop You Can Actually Repair

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Consumer electronics can cause deadly pollution by degrading into hazardous materials (including lead, mercury, and arsenic) when left in landfills. The company’s namesake laptop is designed for easy access to its internal hardware. This article appears in the March 2022 print issue as “Dell’s Proposed Laptop is Fit to be Fixed.”.

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Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo

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Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock. At the 1895 International Geographical Congress, Rebeur-Paschwitz proposed setting up a worldwide network of seismological stations.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. Five years of banging the drum, and thanks to this article, we were finally off to the races…comparatively. We all have to be part of the solution.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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This article was first published as “Lotfi A. He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target system (mercury), where neutrons are produced at by the collision of high-energy protons with the Hg target: 695 ns pulse with 60 Hz rep. Specs for the 1.4