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A Geographer Explains Geospatial Intelligence — The Powerful Melding Of Maps And Data

3Apr

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SOCIAL MEDIA, VIDEO REELS

A Geographer Explains Geospatial Intelligence — The Powerful Melding Of Maps And Data

What is geospatial intelligence? A geographer explains the powerful melding of maps and data. With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the summer of 2023 has presented a range of threats to the safety of the majority of Americans. The good news, through all of this: Geospatial intelligence has offered valuable insights to help governments and organizations protect communities. Geospatial intelligence is the collection and integration of data from a network of technologies, including satellites, mobile sensors, ground-control stations and aerial images. The data is used to produce real-time maps and simulations to help identify when, where and to what ext...

Even When The Patent System Explicitly Excluded Them – America’s Always Had Black Inventors

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY, VIDEO REELS

Even When The Patent System Explicitly Excluded Them – America’s Always Had Black Inventors

America has long been the land of innovation. More than 13,000 years ago, the Clovis people created what many call the “first American invention” – a stone tool used primarily to hunt large game. This spirit of American creativity has persisted through the millennia, through the first American patent granted in 1641 and on to today. One group of prolific innovators, however, has been largely ignored by history: black inventors born or forced into American slavery. Though U.S. patent law was created with color-blind language to foster innovation, the patent system consistently excluded these inventors from recognition. As a law professor and a licensed patent attorney, I understand both the importance of protecting inventions and the negative impact of being unable to use the law to do so...

Hopes Of Finally Observing Dark Matter Researchers Dig Deep Underground

3Apr

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Hopes Of Finally Observing Dark Matter Researchers Dig Deep Underground

Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter. Physicists like me don’t fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe — something we call “dark matter.” But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South Dakota, we might one day be able to measure what dark matter really is. The inside of the LZ outer detector. The LZ is a super sensitive machine that may one day detect a dark matter particle. Matt Kapust, SURF, CC BY-SA In the typical model, dark matter accounts for most of the gravitational attraction in the universe, providing the glue that allows structures like galaxies, including our own Milky Way, to form. As the solar system orbits around the center of the Milky Way, Earth moves through a dark matter halo, which make...

Thieves Go High-Tech To Steal Today’s Computerized Cars

3Apr

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TECHNOLOGY, VIDEO REELS

Thieves Go High-Tech To Steal Today’s Computerized Cars

To steal today’s computerized cars, thieves go high-tech. These days, cars are computer centers on wheels. Today’s vehicles can contain over 100 computers and millions of lines of software code. These computers are all networked together and can operate all aspects of your vehicle. It’s not surprising, then, that car theft has also become high-tech. The ones and zeros of getting from A to B The computers in a vehicle can be divided into four categories. Many computers are dedicated to operating the vehicle’s drive train, including controlling the fuel, battery or both, monitoring emissions and operating cruise control. The second category is dedicated to providing safety. These computers collect data from the vehicle and the outside environment and provide functions like lane correctio...

You’re Not Alone If You’re Hearing Voices

23Jun

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You’re Not Alone If You’re Hearing Voices

Hearing voices? You’re not alone. From the little voice telling us we’re no good to the one offering advice, the experience of hearing voices is more common than you might think. It is estimated that 13.2% of the adult general population are subject to it, yet this experience still carries much stigma. Whom can you turn to when you’re no longer alone in your head? For several decades now, the international Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) has been campaigning to improve the way this condition is perceived. Two recent studies conducted at the University of Lorraine in eastern France have assessed how its support groups have impacted the French health care system. Changing textbooks You’re hearing voices and in one fell swoop, the gavel falls: you’re mad. How could it be otherwise? You don’t...

Reductions In SNAP Benefits Won’t Help Food Insecurity That Already Affects 12 Million US Homes

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, VIDEO REELS

Reductions In SNAP Benefits Won’t Help Food Insecurity That Already Affects 12 Million US Homes

Food insecurity already affects 12 million US homes – and reductions in SNAP benefits won’t help. Millions of Americans struggle to afford healthy meals and nutritious food. Known as “food insecurity,” this problem was already rising when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits – previously called food stamps – were cut in 35 states this spring. SciLine interviewed Hilary Seligman, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, on rising grocery prices, the misconceptions about hunger in the U.S., and how food insecurity diminishes school and work performance. Hilary Seligman discussed food insecurity in the U.S. Below are some highlights from the discussion. Answers have been edited. What is food insecurity? Hilary Seligman: Food insecurity i...

Nichiren Buddhism — How The Practice Sustained Tina Turner For 50 years

4Apr

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Nichiren Buddhism — How The Practice Sustained Tina Turner For 50 years

How the practice of Nichiren Buddhism sustained Tina Turner for 50 years. When Tina Turner, often dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘N’ Roll,” died at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, on May 24, 2023, at the age of 83, media headlines praised both her dynamism as a performer and her many career achievements. What many did not know is that for the past 50 years Turner had practiced Soka Gakkai International Nichiren Buddhism. Soka Gakkai is a lay Nichiren Buddhist organization that was founded in Japan in 1930. Today, the international organization is known as Soka Gakkai International, or SGI. This form of Buddhism was popularized in the United States through the organization known today as SGI-USA. Turner was introduced to the organization by Valerie Bishop, a woman whom her first husband, mus...

Comics Can Either Depress Turnout Or Activate Voters In 2024 — Not All Political Comedy Is Equal

3Apr

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Comics Can Either Depress Turnout Or Activate Voters In 2024 — Not All Political Comedy Is Equal

Not all political comedy is equal – how comics can either depress turnout or activate voters in 2024. Biden is old. Trump has weird hair. Biden mangles the English language. Trump barely seems to understand it. There’s no question that it is easy to make fun of the two top presidential candidates for 2024. But as I explain in my new book, “Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn’t,” not all political comedy is equal. Jokes that focus on physical traits – fat bellies, bald heads, bumbling speech – foster negative candidate views that can exhaust voters, as does mocking scandals, whether it’s the mishandling of classified documents, sexual misconduct or family drama. In contrast, satire – which centers on faulty logic, abuses of power and flawed thinking – can com...

Leaving Many Valuable Ecosystems At Risk, The Supreme Court Just Shriveled Federal Protection For Wetlands

3Apr

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SCIENCE, VIDEO REELS

Leaving Many Valuable Ecosystems At Risk, The Supreme Court Just Shriveled Federal Protection For Wetlands

The Supreme Court just shriveled federal protection for wetlands, leaving many of these valuable ecosystems at risk. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Sackett v. EPA that federal protection of wetlands encompasses only those wetlands that directly adjoin rivers, lakes and other bodies of water. This is an extremely narrow interpretation of the Clean Water Act that could expose many wetlands across the U.S. to filling and development. Under this keystone environmental law, federal agencies take the lead in regulating water pollution, while state and local governments regulate land use. Wetlands are areas where land is wet for all or part of the year, so they straddle this division of authority. Swamps, bogs, marshes and other wetlands provide valuable ecological services, such as filter...

Finance Professors Explain How Credit Scores Work

3Apr

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BUSINESS, FOR BUSINESS, IN OTHER NEWS, VIDEO REELS

Finance Professors Explain How Credit Scores Work

How do credit scores work? 2 finance professors explain how lenders choose who gets loans and at what interest rate. With the cost of borrowing money to buy a home or a car inching ever higher, understanding who gets access to credit, and at what interest rate, is more important for borrowers’ financial health than ever. Lenders base those decisions on the borrowers’ credit scores. To learn more about credit scores, The Conversation consulted with two finance scholars. Brian Blank is an assistant professor of finance at Mississippi State University with expertise related to how firms allocate capital, as well as the role of credit in mortgage lending. His colleague at Mississippi State, Tom Miller Jr., is a finance professor who has written a book on consumer lending, in addition to provi...