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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Barrett says that a person who dies from an air pollution-related cause typically dies about a decade earlier than he or she otherwise might have. Pollution from industrial activities was highest in the Midwest, roughly between Chicago and Detroit, as well as around Philadelphia, Atlanta and Los Angeles. —Caiazzo et al.

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Flying first class on a single domestic round trip can contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than a year of driving

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This calculation used the 2017 values for the direct emissions of all greenhouse gases from the combustion of fuel by all light-duty vehicles ( 2,421 billion pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent ), the number of persons with a driver’s license ( 225,346,257 ), and the average number of occupants in light-duty vehicles ( 1.674 ).

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use. 1,576,345.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. He spent his summer this year as a graduate research intern at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, in Atlanta. program and even personal advice such as managing a work-life balance.”

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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

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As senior technical leader for innovation, Maciuca brings extensive Silicon Valley experience advising startups, developing and commercializing products, collaborating with universities and leading cross-functional teams. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from its Haas School of Business.

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College Admissions: Should AI Apply?

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To secure their place at the institution of higher learning of their choice, many of these students will need to write personal essays that reveal their perspective on the world and on themselves while showing how proficient they are at composing a cohesive, elegant narrative. One bugaboo for universities has been false positives.

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Video Friday: Humanoids Get a Job

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You had one job, e-stop person! University of Leeds ] I still think this is a great way of charging a robot. University of Leeds ] I still think this is a great way of charging a robot. Kickstarter ] ICRA next year is in Atlanta! HumanPlus ] Yeah these robots are impressive but it’s the sound effects that make it.