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<title><![CDATA[Neil Gross]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For many years, I've been paying attention to developments in medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and biotechnology, as well as trends in computer science, climate change, and alternative energy. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Real Story Behind Bisphenol A]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:33:07 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To some degree, the BPA controversy is a story about a scientific dispute. But even more, it's about a battle to protect a multibillion-dollar market from regulation. In the United States, industrial chemicals are presumed safe until proven otherwise. As a result, the vast majority of the 80,000 chemicals registered to be used in products have never undergone a government safety review. Companies are left largely to police themselves.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Augmented Reality Works]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:28:09 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Video games have been entertaining us for nearly 30 years, ever since Pong was introduced to arcades in the early 1970s. Computer graphics have become much more sophisticated since then, and game graphics are pushing the barriers of photorealism. Now, researchers and engineers are pulling graphics out of your television screen or computer display and integrating them into real-world environments. This new technology, called augmented reality, blurs the line between what's real and what's computer-generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Green Power Superhighways]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:22:37 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The United States is home to vast quantities of clean energy resources – wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower. Yet it lacks a modern interstate transmission grid to deliver carbon-free electricity to customers in highly populated areas of the country. President Obama has called for the United States to double the production of renewable energy in three years and to secure 25 percent of its electricity from renewable resources by 2025. Achieving this will require a cohesive effort from local, state, and federal officials and significant new investment in our transmission infrastructure. This paper will highlight the barriers that hinder investment in transmission infrastructure and identify potential policy solutions to overcome those barriers.]]></description>
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