Category: Systems Science

  • How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US

    How Washington, DC became the capital of bike-sharing in the US By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Wash­in­ton, DC was never known for being bike-friendly — but over the last decade, the city is home to the largest and most suc­cess­ful bike-sharing pro­gram in the coun­try. Slate tracks its rise, pin­ning much of the suc­cess on for­mer……

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  • A Tool To Let Companies Design Products Without Harmful Chemicals

    A Tool To Let Companies Design Products Without Harmful Chemicals BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com We all know BPA is bad, but so are a lot of other chemicals we don’t know too much about. A new service lets companies find out if what they’re selling us might end up being the next BPA—so they can…

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  • Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong

    2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong By Juliet Eilperin, popsci.com Barack Obama’s second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology—although the budget ax is looming. Sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy have utter­ly trans­formed human life in the past few gen­er­a­tions, and fore­casts of the… RT @gram_positive: But will remain weak in the Philippines.…

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  • Is Climate Change Self-Correcting?

    Is Climate Change Self-Correcting? Australia’s Heatwave Stops Gasoline Sales By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com At high outback temperatures, gasoline vaporizes too quickly to pump. Con­tin­u­ing Aus­tralia’s trend of being major­ly unpleas­ant this week, it got so hot in the Out­back town of Ood­na­dat­ta a few days ago that you couldn’t even pump gas. RT @PopSci: Good…

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  • Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile

    By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com A California company is selling car insurance by the mile, using in-car sensors to log data. The longer plan is to have a running monitor of the car’s health. http://flip.it/iV6qk Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile Related articles Car insurance prices ‘start to fall’ (bbc.co.uk)

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