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Obama: 'If Congress wont act soon to protect future generations, I will'
2013-02-13 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: President Obama yesterday sent a stark warning to Congress that he will take executive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and drive clean energy investment if a bi-partisan energy and climate change bill is not delivered. In a lengthy passage of the State of the Union address, Obama reiterated his commitment to tackling the threat posed by climate change and outlined a number of steps to "speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy", including plans for a new non-partisan Energy...
Poland Spring blows best social media moment it will ever have
2013-02-13 06:16:30| CNET News.com
The water company didn't take the opportunity to capitalize on the new-found fame the Florida Republican brought after his State of the Union rebuttal error. Its Twitter accounts stayed dry. [Read more]
Obama to Congress: Act on climate change or I will
2013-02-13 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is telling Congress that he will take action to combat climate change if lawmakers don't do it themselves. In his State of the Union address Tuesday, the president said Congress should write legislation that would give polluters market-based incentives to reduce the emissions blamed for global warming. He said if lawmakers don't do that, his administration will craft executive actions that would cut pollution, help get communities ready for the effects of climate change...
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Researchers use facial muscle tracking to predict how addictive games will be
2013-02-09 16:00:21| Extremetech
Taiwanese researchers at the Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University are using electromyography (EMG) to track small muscle movements in the faces of the focus group members. From there, they can estimate how much fun, and how addictive, the gameplay is.
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United Kingdom: If cycling infrastructure ideas are ignored, very little will change
2013-02-06 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The all-party parliamentary cycling group inquiry, to which I presented some of your ideas a fortnight ago, is rumbling on. Today, MPs and peers examine cycling infrastructure. Among the assembled witnesses is Dr Dave Horton, a cycling sociologist whose Understanding Walking and Cycling project, which I wrote about in 2011, had a big impact on my thinking. Below are the five points Horton sent to the committee in advance, to give an idea of his thinking, followed by some more thoughts, penned...
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