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Charity expands services with support from mygrimsby fund

My Energi

Members are encouraged to focus on using art and social contact to build trust and encourage personal development to create a sense of positive wellbeing, while rebuilding confidence and self-esteem. The ‘Great Escape’ is a unique heritage restoration project on Grimsby’s docks, converting a historical building into a creative workspace.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

Cars That Think

The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. High school student Julia Griffin wanted her comic to encourage youngsters to protect the environment. In the story, Riko-chan and a friend are able to escape being hit by a car while crossing a busy road.

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Wakeup! The Sea Level is Rising & Another Island Nation’s People Are About To Become Climate Change Refugees

Creative Greenius

They remain uncaring at their own personal risk for those who are safe now will not be safe tomorrow. We also know there will be no escape for us. Tags: environment. Their President doesn’t know where they will go or who will help them. Unless we step up and start acting right now it will be too late a few years from now.

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Ford unveils Fusion Hybrid research vehicle for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

LiDAR uses light in the same way a bat or dolphin uses sound waves, and can bounce infrared light off everything within 200 feet to generate a real-time 3D map of the surrounding environment. Personal vehicle ownership also will change as new business models develop. —Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive? Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from. Take space travel as an example. But we can change our attitudes.

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

Cars That Think

Anna Yelizarova, Future of Life Institute The contest aims to counter the common dystopian narrative of artificial intelligence that becomes smarter than humans, escapes our control, and makes the world go to hell in one way or another. We’re just trying to show futures that are not dystopian, so people have something to work toward.”

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IEEE President’s Note: A Promise Is a Promise

Cars That Think

He escaped a future of being a struggling farmer and was able to build a successful business. Ethics serves as my ultimate guide for how I conduct myself both personally and professionally. A self-taught accountant without formal education, he lived in the impoverished countryside of southern Taiwan. He was also a vegetarian.

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