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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

Baua Electric

In the largely Black and brown Dixwell neighborhood northwest of campus, Titus Kaphar, a resident and 2006 graduate of the Yale School of Art, and Jason Price, a private equity manager, founded NXTHVN. Showcasing New Haven as an arts hub is the aim of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. MB of data.

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CA’s solar tax supporters are trying to run a “wealthy vs disadvantaged” narrative: It doesn’t have to be

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backers like Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric, has been particularly active in pushing the idea that NEM 2.0 Affordable Clean Energy for All , a coalition of groups that include open NEM 3.0 takes from the disadvantaged and gives to the wealthy. .

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Eronen says. “It

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

Green Car Congress

One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. The smartphone assistants’ scores were 0.3

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Air Quality: Easy to Measure, Tough to Fix

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All outdoor activity in my neighborhood ceased for weeks, yet staying indoors didn't guarantee relief. But I had no idea of how bad because, like most people, I had no way to measure it. LG led its presentation with personal air purifiers instead of televisions. Portland, Ore., as it did to so many other cities across the world.

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Is it the Right Time to Buy an Electric Car?

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Facts such as The Tesla stock being the ‘HOT’ one in the market right now, Elon Musk rises to the richest person in the world, Governments providing incentives for electric vehicles , etc. Service centres and service personals are easy to find to repair a gasoline car. Fueling Infrastructure and facilities.

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