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Facebook and apple grilled by lawmakers. How these last few days have shaped Silicon Valleys future. Moon choose to go to the and these other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Emily and we mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. I speak with the captain for moonshot on nasas legacy and why we should not be going to mars. First, to our top story, what else but big tech earnings . Shares of microsoft jumping after strong fourthquarter results thursday. The t...

We choose to go to the moon and these other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Emily and we mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. I speak with the captain for moonshot on nasas legacy and why we should not be going to mars. First, to our top story, what else but big tech earnings . Shares of microsoft jumping after strong fourthquarter results thursday. The tech giant has benefited from ongoing strength in the Cloud Computing as your business. And microso...

50 posts published by Jerry during August 2014

Weber was recognized in the humanities and social sciences category "for her research on environmental decision-making and the factors that motivate action against climate change."

Mathematical models can address specific questions in scientific research, but their application requires intent and skill.

Jeanne Altman and Peter Singer have been awarded 2023 Frontiers of Knowledge Awards by the BBVA Foundation, which established the awards in 2008 to recognize basic research and creative work worldwide that significantly enlarges the stock of knowledge in a discipline, opens up new fields, or builds bridges between disciplinary area.

Two professors, mathematician Charles Fefferman (also a 1969 Ph.D. alumnus) and ecologist Simon Levin, have been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards.

Princeton: A half-century at the environmental forefront

Princeton University researchers have found a way to zero-in on how dangerously hot the Earth’s tropical zones could become under climate change by looking at the atmospheric dynamics that control the region’s heat and humidity, according to a recent paper in Nature Geoscience.

Global Warming’s Deadly Combination: Heat and Humidity A new study suggests that large swaths of the tropics will experience dangerous living and working conditions if global warming isn’t limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A farmer in Peukan Biluy village in Aceh, Indonesia, part of the region that could become uninhabitable if global temperatures rise too much. Credit...Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA, via Shutterstock March 8, 2021 Here’s one more reason the world should aim to limit wa...