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DOE-funded Bioenergy Research Centers file 500th invention disclosure
2016-03-07 22:56:11| Green Car Congress
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More middle and high school students access invention activities
2016-02-29 07:56:21| Appliances - Topix.net
The Lemelson-MIT Program announced the expansion of the Junior Varsity InvenTeam initiative, adding California to its geographic line up of student teams in Massachusetts, Oregon and Texas. The initiative launched in 2014 and equips educators with invention-based activity guides, materials and tools to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics education through hands-on skill building.
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Lemelson-MIT program expands invention education opportunities for middle and high school students
2016-02-25 22:34:38| Appliances - Topix.net
The Lemelson-MIT Program announced today the expansion of the Junior Varsity InvenTeam initiative, adding California to its geographic line up of student teams in Massachusetts, Oregon and Texas. The initiative launched in 2014 and equips educators with invention-based activity guides, materials and tools to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics education through hands-on skill building.
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In the Caribbean, a stinking seaweed menace spurs invention
2015-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An unwelcome visitor sailed onto Caribbean beaches this year: huge rafts of seaweed. The seaweed, called sargassum, has swept into the region in part as a result of changing weather conditions, turning many once-postcard-perfect beaches a dull pond-scum brown as it decomposes and releases a rotten egg stench. "It's a dirty horrible brown lace that just washes ashore," said Noorani Azeez, CEO of the Saint Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association. "The foul stench of the seaweed is really an inhibitor...
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The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
2015-10-02 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: The father of nature writing, intrepid explorer, friend to revolutionaries and US presidents, Alexander von Humboldt was the original scholar adventurer. Fearlessly footloose and boundlessly curious, the Prussian-born Humboldt climbed mountains, traversed rugged terrain, collected specimens, and scribbled, scribbled, scribbled from the late 18th through the mid-19th centuries as he pursued his uniquely rapturous vision of nature. His journeys took him deep into South American jungles and across...