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1:03 KLCCs Brian Bull reports on Oregon Democratic Congressman Peter DeFazios remarks re: COVID-19 guidance under President Joe Biden compared to former President Donald Trump. DeFazio made his remarks after touring the University of Oregon’s COVID-19 Monitoring and Assessment Program, which received $4 million in federal COVID relief money last fall.  He says more assistance will come under President Joe Biden than with his predecessor. “With the Trump administration, Hey, this is going ...

Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s Katyanna Quach Wed 27 Jan 2021 // 23:36 UTC Share Copy HPE will upgrade the US National Center for Atmospheric Researchs (NCAR) supercomputer using AMD and Nvidias latest CPUs and GPUs, creating a machine roughly three times as powerful as its current Intel-based beast. That system running today, code-named Cheyenne, is four years old, and now its government-funded lab wa...

Despite many young Australians having a deep interest in political issues, most teenagers have a limited understanding about their nation’s democratic system. Results from the 2019 National Assessment Program – Civics and Citizenship (NAP-CC) released today show the proportion of young people demonstrating the expected level of knowledge about topics such as democracy and government has not improved since three years ago. Only 38% of year 10 students reached the standard of knowledge on ci...

By: Conformity Assessment Program Specialist The growth in distributed energy resources presents huge opportunities both in front-of-meter and behind-the-meter but the process of interconnection to the grid could still be a lot smoother, Jason Allnutt, Conformity Assessment Program Specialist for the IEEE Standards Association says. Adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) is surging around the world. DERs are bringing unique benefits to the global energy landscape that central-statio...

Education policy has blind spots By Wang Yen-huang 王延煌 The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement has released the results of the quadrennial Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). There was not much change in the results for Taiwan, as students scored high in learning achievement, but low in learning attitude toward mathematics and science, and their sense of alienation toward mathematics and science was higher than the average. ...

Among them was the satyr butterfly, last seen 98 years ago. In the BolivianAndes, scientists found 20 new species and rediscovered plants and animals not seen for decades. The findings were made on a 14-day scientific expedition in March 2017 led by non-profit environmental group Conservation International (CI) high into the cloud forests of the Andean mountains. As part of CIs Rapid Assessment Program, which assembles "ecological SWAT teams" to quickly and efficiently assess the health of ecos...

Revamping Federal Climate Science December 15, 2020, 5:00 am Getty/Liu Shiping/Xinhua Sam Hananel Ari Drennen Introduction and summary The United States has been the global leader in climate science for decades. Unfortunately, progress has slowed—and in some cases, even moved backward—over the past four years, with the Trump administration dismantling core elements of the federal climate science apparatus. As the country and the planet head toward an increasingly unstable climate, the U...

1. Phil Stewart and Idress Ali, “U.S. Navy Suffering from ‘Failure in Leadership,’ Says Nominee to Lead It,” Reuters, 7 May 2020 www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy/u-s-navy-suffering-from-failure-in-leadership-says-nominee-to-lead-it-idUSKBN22J2AD.  2. LT Daniel Stefanus, USN, “Retaining More High-Performing Aviation, Sub, and SWO Talent,” MyNavy HR Feeder Board, 18 February 2020.  3. Army Talent Management Task Force, “Army Announces New Battalion Commander Selection Program,�...