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It’s already happening, and three trends provide a preview of the shape of things to come. As with many healthy industries, medicine is constantly in ferment. Expansive forces generate new treatments and tools, as well as the specialists and specialties that deliver them. Then, limitations focus the application of the resulting new disciplines and cull out older ones that are no longer competitive.
Like banking, manufacturing, and publishing, medicine is finally automating—albeit later. The App Store Will See You Now. Tax Plan to Turn Old Buildings ‘Green’ Finds Favor. Focusing mainly on commercial property at first, the group plans to exploit a new tax arrangement that allows property owners to upgrade their buildings at no upfront cost, typically cutting their energy use and their utility bills by a third.
The building owners would pay for the upgrades over five to 20 years through surcharges on their property-tax bills, but that would be less than the savings. The consortium is led by a company called Ygrene Energy Fund of Santa Rosa, Calif., which has already won an exclusive contract to manage a retrofit program for a half-dozen communities in the Miami area, with the city expected to join in a few weeks. It is in the late stages of completing a contract with Sacramento, and is seeking deals in other cities. State and city officials are optimistic they may have found a way to tackle one of the nation’s biggest energy problems — waste in older buildings — without new money from Washington. News from the Carbon War Room. Welcome : The Knot Wedding Websites. Green Building News. Japanese act to curb killer robots. By Paz I think most would agree that the Japanese are obsessed with gadgets and robots in particular.
Most of the stories we hear from Japan are concerned with humanoid robots (such as Honda’s Asimo robot seen here), but the Japanese are world leaders in the use of robots in manufacturing, particularly cars. They have a problem though; these industrial robots are inexplicably killing people. The numbers aren’t high, but the government has moved to act. In 1942 the sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov wrote three Laws of Robotics; The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire. Coin Forum, Numismatic Education, and Collecting Information. Innovation in Leadership Development Group News. Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO; A Look Back at His Career.
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The online students will not get Stanford grades or credit, but they will be ranked in comparison to the work of other online students and will receive a “statement of accomplishment.” Florida Again Found Most Dangerous Place for Pedestrians. Scientists Find Signs Water Is Flowing on Mars. The possible presence of liquid water is certain to revive speculation that Mars is teeming with microbial organisms.
The recipe for life, at least as we know it, calls for liquid water, carbon-based molecules and a source for energy. There is plenty of ice on Mars, but the chemical reactions for life come to a halt when water freezes. High-resolution photographs taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which arrived at Mars in 2006, show fingerlike streaks up to five yards wide that appear on some steep slopes in the planet’s late spring.
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