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Congress faces physicists' 'multiverse' of issues including IRS, Zika upon impending return

Edit Fox News 27 Aug 2016
Quantum physicists sometimes discuss the possibility of a “multiverse.” A multiverse is where the cosmos is like a layered quilt, populated with alternate realities, different dimensions and unique timelines. As a result, an infinite number of possibilities or scenarios pass along each temporal continuum ... ....

John Carroll, former CS magazine publisher, dead at 59

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 27 Aug 2016
He was 59 ... The pain he suffered with the horrific disease, frontal temporal dementia was too much to endure ... May you rest in peace, Johnny.”. Read more from Shia Kapos. ....

F1 2016 Graphics Comparison: PC vs. PS4 vs. Xbox One

Edit GamingBolt 27 Aug 2016
Mankind Divided, there’s no temporal anti-aliasing to really mask the difference in image quality. You would probably balk at an anti-aliasing solution from those games being used for F1 2016 (and it’s there – just not on consoles like with those games) but the point is that if such a temporal component were used, there would be almost no noticeable difference between the image quality of both console versions....

IBM Researchers Use Grocery Scanner Data to Speed Investigations During Early Foodborne Illness Outbreaks (IBM Danmark A/S)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Aug 2016
(Source. IBM Danmark A/S). ARMONK, N.Y. - 12 Aug 2016 ... In the study, researchers created a data-analytics methodology to review spatio-temporal data, including geographic location and possible time of consumption, for hundreds of grocery product categories ... How Spatial-Temporal Data can Accelerate Foodborne Illness Investigation in a Global Food Supply Chain,' was published in the Association for Computing Machinery's Sigspatial Journal....

Candidate begins campaigning

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 27 Aug 2016
The Republican candidate for N.C. Treasurer was in the Twin Counties recently to attend a private fundraiser and talk shop. “The issues we face are not about east or west, black or white, Republican or Democrat — they are about mathematics,” said Dale Folwell, a certified public accountant, four-term member of the N.C ... Democrat Dan Blue III, son of N.C. Sen ... House, Folwell spent two years as Speaker Pro Tempore ... ....

Can the Anger of Kashmiris be ‘Quenched’?

Edit Kashmir Observer 27 Aug 2016
The “kinetic anger” on eloquent display in Kashmir since the killing of Burhan Wani shows no sign of abating. Yes ... The question is given the prolonged display of “kinetic anger” in Kashmir, what will be its political consequences? It needs to be stated here that the latest display of anger and political violence in Kashmir has a spatial and temporal dynamic and nature ... The question is ... Here political science comes into the picture ... No....

A neuroscientist injected monkeys with rabies to study stress, and the results convinced him to start doing pilates

Edit Business Insider 27 Aug 2016
Getty Images/Peter Macdiarmid. Elite tennis players have an uncanny ability to clear their heads after making errors. They constantly move on and start fresh for the next point. They can’t afford to dwell on mistakes. Peter Strick is not a professional tennis player ... He’s the sort of person to dwell on mistakes, however small ... * * * ... “If someone dies of a herpes infection, their temporal lobes look like soup,” Strick explained to me ... ....

Judge tells UNC it can't enforce state’s HB2 restroom restrictions

Edit The Miami Herald 26 Aug 2016
As a result, the order bars the school system from enforcing the bathroom provisions against the three individual transgender people that are part of the case ... Gov ... McCroy and Phil Berger, the Republican president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate, both of whom are listed on the case involving the University of North Carolina, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. - - - ... ncarolina ....

STATEMENT FROM COMPTROLLER LEMBO ON DEPARTMENT OF LABOR'S FINAL RULE CONCERNING STATE RETIREMENT INITIATIVES (State of Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Aug 2016
(Source. State of Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURS., AUGUST 25, 2016 Contact. Tyler Wilkinson. 860-702-3325. Tyler.Wilkinson@ct.gov STATEMENT FROM COMPTROLLER LEMBO ON DEPARTMENT OF LABOR'S FINAL RULE CONCERNING STATE RETIREMENT INITIATIVES ... Nappier, state Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, state House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz, Labor Committee co-chairs state Sen. Edwin A ... ***END***....

Review: The Great Derangement

Edit The Times of India 26 Aug 2016
What makes this slim but densely packed study such a compelling read is its profoundly personal engagement, its multidisciplinary sources, its stimulating argument, its freedom from statistics and the consummate storytelling craft the writer brings to it, allowing him to braid its multiple strands into a dynamic narrative ... These discrete manifestations are temporally and spatially greatly distanced from one another ... (Text ... RELATED....

Scots well represented in two major drawing competitions

Edit Scotsman 26 Aug 2016
The shortlists for two major drawing competitions have just been announced, and Scottish artists are well represented ... Kevin Smith 's Mother Widow Wife Spinster. Picture. Contributed ... The Derwent Art Prize ... “Condensed onto a single surface are the different temporalities of the making and re-making of the image in terms of their historical, cultural contexts and mediated through material and technological ‘bodies', including my own.”....

STEMI at Elderly Age (American College of Cardiology Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Aug 2016
(Source. American College of Cardiology Foundation). 35% of myocardial infarctions in the U.S. occur in patients 75 years and older, and 11% occur in patients older than 85 years of age. ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is less common than Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in older adults, although the absolute numbers of STEMI increase with age ... Primary angioplasty vs ... guidelines, temporal changes and challenges....

Cave study designed to solve puzzle of prehistoric megadroughts in the western U.S. August 26, 2016 (Vanderbilt University)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Aug 2016
(Source. Vanderbilt University) ... Aug ... When these records are combined with sequences from two caves in the Sierra Nevada, which Oster has previously compiled, and with records taken from the Oregon Caves in southern Oregon, Oster expects to have the temporal and spatial data that she needs to track how rainfall has changed along the west coast over the past 30,000 years and shed new light on the puzzle of the Holocene megadroughts....
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