© 2013 Peter Free Citation Press Room, Understanding the life of lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles, American Chemical Society (10 April 2013) Yes with a but Mikael G. Cugnet told a session of the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society that: “The [electric vehicle lithium ion] battery pack could be [...]
Categories: Chemistry,Economy,Energy,Engineering,Science
Tagged: 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, 86 degrees Fahrenheit, 86° Fahrenheit, lithium-ion electric vehicle battery, Mikael G. Cugnet, Understanding the life of lithium ion batteries in electric vehicles
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- 10 April 2013 – 12:55
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Citation Robert S. Siegler, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela E. Davis-Kean, Kathryn Duckworth, Amy Claessens, Mimi Engel, Maria Ines Susperreguy, and Meichu Chen, Early Predictors of High School Mathematics Achievement, Psychological Science, doi: 10.1177/0956797612440101 (online before print, 14 June 2012) What the study found Even when variables like intelligence and family background are taken into account, [...]
Categories: Economy,Science
Tagged: Amy Claessens, early predictors, Eric A. Hanushek, fractions, Greg J. Duncan, high school, invert and multiply, Kathryn Duckworth, long division, long term math success, Ludger Woessmann, Maria Ines Susperreguy, mathematics achievement, Meichu Chen, Mimi Engel, Pamela E. Davis-Kean, Paul E. Peterson, Robert S. Siegler, Shilo Rea
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- 18 June 2012 – 15:24
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Where our animal impulses are concerned, common sense just can’t win Most thoughtful people would agree that American national security would benefit from less profligate fuel consumption. Yet, our auto-buying natures seem to be too impulsive to put that sensible idea into action. Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Christopher Knittel found that, from 1980 to [...]
Categories: Economy,Environment
Tagged: automobiles, cars, fuel economy, gas mileage, mpg, progress, steroids, technological, trade-offs
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- 4 January 2012 – 09:50
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If this poll is accurate, it’s no wonder that American healthcare costs are out of control Peter Ubel’s survey of 1379 American oncologists produced some eye-finding findings: On average, the responses implied that oncologists were willing to prescribe treatments that cost $245,972 per quality-adjusted life-year . . . in life-prolonging situations v. only $119,082 per [...]
Categories: Economy,Medicine
Tagged: Aleksandra Jankovic, cancer, chemotherapy, debt, Eric S. Nadler, healthcare costs, How Long and How Well Oncologists' Attitudes, Medical Decision Making, Michael A. Kozminski, Peter A. Ubel, Peter J. Neumann, QALY, quality-adjusted life-year
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- 8 June 2011 – 12:04
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Bolivian mountain poverty necessitates physical risks and difficult family lives Riding the 400 meter long cables the farmers use to cross the river canyon to get to their coca fields are challenging enough. The bus ride they have take to market on a narrow and precipitous road is scarier still. Al Jazeera did an outstanding [...]
Categories: Culture,Economy
Tagged: Al Jazeera English, Bolivia, coca, farmer, Risking it all The flying men of Yungas valley
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- 17 May 2011 – 23:16
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Are you also in this boat? Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank told a personal tale today that is illustrative of much of what’s wrong with our plutocrat-run country: Turns out Citibank, which had been collecting hundreds of dollars a month from us to pay the insurer, hadn’t made the payments. It was, I later learned, [...]
Categories: Economy,Ethics
Tagged: banking, Behind the foreclosure crisis, Citibank, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dana Milbank, financial, financial sector, mortgage, plutocrats, refi, refinance
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- 6 March 2011 – 14:01
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You wonder why the super-rich are getting wealthier and the rest of us comparatively poorer? Matt Taibbi’s perspective matches the one I gained in corporate and government legal work. If you are averse to occasionally crass language, however, don’t read what he wrote. Citation Matt Taibbi, Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?, Rolling Stone (03 [...]
Categories: Economy,Ethics
Tagged: banks, depression, financial, government, home values, Matt Taibbi, real estate, recession, regulation, SEC, Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
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- 26 February 2011 – 09:26
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Activist Gustavo Esteva wrote about short-sighted Mexican agricultural policy and its effect on the United States China and Mexico both seem to have created dislocation problems for themselves with peasant-slighting policies. These difficulties result from misapplying urbanized thinking to landscapes where they don’t yet belong. Mexican activist Gustavo Esteva had this to say yesterday about [...]
Categories: Agriculture,Economy
Tagged: agricultural policy, agro-plutocrats, China, gustavo Esteva, Mexico, Mexico goes back to the land, peasants, subsidies, sustainable
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- 15 February 2011 – 08:14
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Robert J. Samuelson nailed this one with logic Economics columnist Robert Samuelson is skeptical about the financial sense of high-speed rail: [T]he Obama administration proposes spending $53 billion over six years to construct a “national high-speed rail system.” There’s something wildly irresponsible about the national government undermining states’ already poor long-term budget prospects by plying [...]
Categories: Economy
Tagged: Amtrak, business populations, Cato Institute, grants, High-speed rail a fast track to government waste, President Obama, Randal O'Toole, Robert Samuelson, subsidies
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- 15 February 2011 – 07:10
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We’re so used to deceitful politicians that sometimes it helps to remind ourselves of their enormously fertile hypocrisies The Republican Party, particularly, loves to rant about “American” values and the close historical relationship between American government and Christianity. Every time one turns around, one of these (usually self-righteous) people is spouting about the evils of [...]
Categories: Economy
Tagged: American values, budget cuts, Christianity, corruption, deficit, evangelical, hypocrisy, Jim Wallis, Republican, What Would Jesus Cut?
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- 11 February 2011 – 10:58
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- By BrainiYak