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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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Sitting in his shirtsleeves at an industrial beige metal desk piled with papers, amid dented bookcases, gym bag in the corner, he does not look like anybody’s definition of a star engineer. Soon, in 1974, he was bumped up again to technology director, and moved from Monsanto’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis, and St.

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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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Researchers Dana Rubin and Evelyne St-Louis, two recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley’s master’s program in city and regional planning, analyzed 98,901 rebates issued to Californians buying or leasing low-emission vehicles from the inception of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project in 2010 through March 2015.

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DOE reports progress on development of hydrogen storage technologies

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The program made three new awards in FY 2014: HRL Laboratories, with partners SNL and University of Missouri-St. Louis, is investigating two material systems, mixed metal borohydrides and lithiated boranes, with potential to offer high gravimetric capacity with fast kinetics at temperatures and pressures relevant to automotive applications.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The speech writer later said that neither he nor McColough had a specific definition of the phrase. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Thus writing a concise definition of Smalltalk-in Small­ talk-was very difficult. “It The originator of that phrase is unclear.

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