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Preparing for inevitable: What we still dont understand about natural disasters
2013-10-27 10:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Some natural disasters -- the earth-shattering, world-ending kind -- we can`t prepare for. But smaller disasters, cataclysmic on a local scale, strike all the time. And yet each time they do, they never fail to take us by surprise. The problem isn`t so much that we can`t anticipate disasters, says geologist Susan W. Kieffer, but that the public, and policy makers, don`t understand the way they work as well as they should. In "The Dynamics of Disaster," Kieffer, a professor emerita of geology at...
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Gravitational Waves Help Understand Black-Hole Weight Gain
2013-10-18 12:39:00| rfglobalnet News Articles
A paper in today’s issue of Science pits the front-running ideas about the growth of supermassive black holes against observational data — a limit on the strength of gravitational waves, obtained with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia.
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Farmers Need Help to Understand New Food Safety Rules
2013-10-03 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Agricultural extension educators should take a flexible approach in teaching farmers about the changing landscape of food safety regulations, according to Penn State researchers.
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Xbox One Kinect can understand two people speaking at once, PS4 counters with camera bundle
2013-09-30 21:26:12| Extremetech
With the impending launch of the Xbox One, it seems that Microsoft is gearing up to make the new version of the Kinect actually work as advertised this time around. Supposedly, the next-gen Kinect is capable of understanding two people at the same time. It sounds very impressive, but it remains to be seen if this will lead towards exciting new kinds of games, or if it's all just doubletalk.
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United Kingdom: Met Office promises new tools to better understand global warming
2013-09-13 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Better predictions of how extreme weather events will be affected by climate change and improvements in models to help understand more local impacts are set to improve understanding of global warming in the future, according to the UK's Met Office. The conclusions are part of a public briefing document prepared by scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre, in advance of the release of a landmark report from the UN's climate science panel due later this month. The Intergovernmental Panel on...
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