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- Senate's Power Brokers are Aging; Several to Seek New Terms http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_congress_aging_senate_iaol-?site=ap&section=home&template=default&ctime=2016-05-08-21-10-34 5 comments politics
- The Roberts Court Protects the Powerful for a New Gilded Age | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/opinion/sunday/supreme-court-kennedy-roberts.html 13 comments politics
- Analysis: New and age-old voter suppression tactics at the heart of the 2020 power struggle - Wausau Pilot & Review https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2020/11/01/analysis-new-and-age-old-voter-suppression-tactics-at-the-heart-of-the-2020-power-struggle/ 7 comments politics
- Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz. "our new-age banana republic, where "the power of money" decides who gets prosecuted, and how severely, and for what. "The power of money" isn't supposed to mean jack-shit in a courtroom." http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/aaron-swartz-case-011713?src=soc_fcbk 49 comments politics
- Data Is Power: Washington Needs to Craft New Rules for the Digital Age https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-04-16/data-power-new-rules-digital-age 7 comments geopolitics
- Biden announces $1.3 billion to build new power lines, upgrade aging electric grid https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/30/biden-investment-power-lines-aging-electric-grid.html 71 comments environment
- Biden announces $1.3 billion to build new power lines, upgrade aging electric grid https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/30/biden-investment-power-lines-aging-electric-grid.html 804 comments politics
- Britain After Ukraine: A New Foreign Policy for an Age of Great-Power Competition| By Tom Tugendhat https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-kingdom/tom-tugendhat-britain-after-ukraine 35 comments europe
- New AI-powered computer model predicts disease progression during aging https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-ai-powered-disease-aging.html 3 comments futurology
- Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R4xhwy-1oI 7 comments technology
- Fairwell Liddell! As Liddell closes an age of uncertainty dawns. Today marks an impressive watershed for Australia’s energy transition. The coal-fired furnaces at the Liddell Power Station in New South Wales will be switched off, for good. https://naturalsolar.com.au/recent-news/as-liddell-closes-an-age-of-uncertainty-dawns/ 4 comments energy
- ‘End of fossil age’ has begun, analysts say. 2023 will mark the beginning of the decline in fossil fuels, following the peak of global electricity emissions in 2022, according to a new report. "We are entering the clean power era.” https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/end-of-fossil-age-has-begun-analysts-say/ 9 comments futurology
- ‘End of fossil age’ has begun, analysts say. 2023 will mark the beginning of the decline in fossil fuels, following the peak of global electricity emissions in 2022, according to a new report. "We are entering the clean power era.” Minerals or intermittency are "not an impediment at all” https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/end-of-fossil-age-has-begun-analysts-say/ 79 comments energy
- Honda's aging hydrogen fuel cells get new life in data center. The used fuel cell systems in Honda’s backup-power demo once powered leased Clarities. Honda retired these used fuel cells for transport, but they apparently still work well enough to drive its server farm in case of power failure https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/03/hondas-aging-hydrogen-fuel-cells-get-new-life-in-data-center/?h2fd= 11 comments energy
- Aging is a gradual decline in the energy supply to the cell. Scientists found that the protein Sirtuin 6 is a key factor regulating the activity of mitochondria (the cell’s power plants) in the brain. These findings will help develop new prevention and treatment approaches for aging. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41419-022-05542-w 207 comments science
- Bifocal contact lenses aren’t just for aging eyes anymore. In nearsighted kids as young as 7 years old, multifocal contact lenses with a heavy dose of added reading power can dramatically slow further progression of myopia, new research has found. https://news.osu.edu/young-nearsighted-kids-benefit-from-bifocal-contact-lenses-study-shows/ 166 comments science
- Praise, rather than punish, can increase focus in the classroom up to 30%, according to a new study that observed 2,536 students with ages from 5 to 12 years. The results show that praise is a powerful tool in a teacher's arsenal that inspires students to work harder and boosts learning. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/tfg-prt012320.php#.xje7wgjli2w.reddit 96 comments science
- "One of the largest and most meticulous studies of mammography ever done, involving 90K women and lasting 25y, has added powerful new doubts about the value of the screening test for women of any age." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/health/study-adds-new-doubts-about-value-of-mammograms.html?hp&_r=0 709 comments science
- History is littered with horrifying examples of the misuse of evolutionary theory to justify power and inequality. Welcome to a new age of biological determinism. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/theres-a-gene-for-that/ 5 comments philosophy
- Susan Crawford talked about her book, "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," arguing that the U.S. has lost its competitive advantage in the knowledge-based economy, is no longer at the forefront of the internet revolution http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/crawfo 4 comments politics
- Assange: “THE New Digital Age” is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, who construct a new idiom for United States global power in the 21st century. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/the-banality-of-googles-dont-be-evil.html?smid=re-share 38 comments technology
- A meticulous new analysis of Antarctic ice suggests that the sharp warming that ended the last ice age occurred in lock step with increases of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the latest of many indications that the gas is a powerful influence on the earth’s climate http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/science/earth/at-ice-age-end-a-smaller-gap-in-warming-and-carbon-dioxide.html?_r=0 29 comments science
- Chris Hedges: The S&M Election - "I learned at the age of 10, when I was shipped off to a New England boarding school where the hazing of younger boys was the principal form of recreation, that those who hunger for power are psychopathic bastards." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_sm_election_20121105/ 7 comments politics
- As nuclear power stations age and close, new plants are not being built fast enough to sustain numbers http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19626313.300-nuclear-industry-may-running-out-of-steam.html 2 comments science
- The Trump Administration Gave the NRA “Veto Power” Over Its Response to the Parkland Massacre, New Book Reveals - Trump was reportedly so worried about losing the gun lobby’s support that he bucked his own administration’s recommendation to explore raising the minimum age for firearm purchases https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/donald-trump-miles-taylor-blowback-nra-parkland 48 comments politics
- Golden age or greenwashing? Mixed reaction as EU unveils new hydrogen and gas market proposals. The argument is whether hydrogen or other gases should play a role in the heating of buildings, with multiple independent studies finding that renewables-powered heat pumps the cheapest option by far. https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/golden-age-or-greenwashing-mixed-reaction-as-eu-unveils-new-hydrogen-and-gas-market-proposals/2-1-1127205 15 comments energy
- How statistics lost their power and why we should fear what comes next: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy 22 comments statistics
- Egypt's popular revolution will change the world: In discovering their power to determine their future, north Africa's protesters have already opened a new age in world history http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/09/egypt-north-africa-revolution 3 comments worldnews
- Air Force Research Lab Takes Giant Leap Into the New Space Age With Plans for Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft Systems - The Debrief https://thedebrief.org/air-force-research-lab-takes-giant-leap-into-the-new-space-age-with-plans-for-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-systems/ 8 comments futurology
- [Jeff Passan] News, free and unlocked, at ESPN on Jeff McNeil's four-year, $50 million deal with the New York Mets. With McNeil not set to reach the open market until going into his age-33 season and free agency unkind to players with limited power, he went extension: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1619081442587189250?cxt=HHwWhICx_cz_kPgsAAAA 3 comments baseball
- Germany to legalize recreational cannabis, country’s new coalition government announces | The coalition also plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16-years-old and pass other measures such as phasing out coal power. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/germany-legalise-cannabis-coalition-angela-merkel-b968083.html 4 comments worldnews
- Aging oilfields pollute more and produce less - As the world’s largest oilfields age, the power required to keep them operating can rise dramatically even as the amount of petroleum they produce drops, a new study suggests. http://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2017/07/17/climate-impacts-super-giant-oilfields-go-age/ 4 comments science
- Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players - Low-profile chip makers with aging factories have become surprisingly powerful, leading to industry changes that may outlive the pandemic-fueled supply crunch. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/technology/computer-chip-shortage.html 22 comments technology