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#Food additives'Generally Recognized As Safe Could Be Anything But (Op-Ed)" Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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#Prehistoric Poop Reveals Neanderthals Ate Plants Don't call them brutes. Neanderthals ate their veggies. Traces of 50000-year-old poop found at a caveman campground in Spain suggest that modern humans'prehistoric cousins may have had a healthy dose of plants in their diet researchers say.
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#Mediterranean Diet May be Beneficial for Kids'Weight Children who follow the so-called Mediterranean diet may be less likely to be overweight
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#Humans Managed Rainforests of Southeast asia for Thousands of Years The untouched rainforests of Southeast asia may have been manhandled more than previously thought.
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#Nearing Collapse? West Antarctica's Glaciers Speeding Up Six big glaciers in West Antarctica are flowing much faster than 40 years ago a new study finds.
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#My Time With Comet Lovejoy (Op-Ed) Victor Rogus is an amateur astronomer and this is the sixth in his series of exclusive Space. com posts about amateur astronomy.
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#Broccoli Brew Eases Air pollution Effect, But Is This Detox? Scientists have concocted a brew made with broccoli sprouts that may help protect against the toxic effects of air pollution.
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#Polar bear Caught on Camera with Eerie Musk ox Horn (Photo) In the blue light of the Russian Arctic scientists captured a rare photo of a polar bear approaching a musk ox carcass Thursday (March 27.
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#Hunters to Herders: Ancient Civilization Made Rapid Switch Bones unearthed from an ancient mound in Turkey suggest that humans there shifted their diet from hunting to herding over just a few centuries findings that shed light on the dawn of agriculture scientists say.
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#'Mummy Lake'Used for Ancient Rituals, Not Water Storage In Colorado's Mesa verde national park a large 1000-year-old structure long thought to be an Ancestral Puebloan water reservoir may not have been built to store water after all a new study suggests.
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#European Bison to Be released into Wild Bison went extinct in Europe nearly 100 years ago
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#Rains Spurred by Climate Change Killing Penguin Chicks Penguin-chick mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina a trend scientists attribute to climate change
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#Hong kong to Destroy More than 30 Tons of Ivory Following in the footsteps of China and the United states conservation officials in Hong kong announced that they will destroy their stockpile of confiscated ivory.
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and Google. org unveiled an online tool that allows tropical countries, beginning in South america, to map deforestation using an automated system to analyse satellite imagery.
Two related products developed by Google and IBM, and by HP, Intel and Yahoo already offer some scientists access to their services (see Nature 449,963;
Beach says that surveys carried out using Google earth and remote sensing techniques suggest that this wetland system was probably around 100 kilometres across.
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RESEARCHGOOGLE ends RE<C Google has axed an initiative that aimed to make renewable energy cheaper than coal by improving solar thermal power systems.
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Earlier this year, a group of Czech researchers reported their failed attempt to replicate the finding using different Google earth images3.
I just did a quick Google search, he says. His longstanding interest in history was helpful,
Reicher, an attorney by training, previously headed Google s $1-billion initiative for investing in energy and climate, where he guided investments into solar technologies and electric transport.
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Many eyes on Earthimagine using Google earth or other online mapping tools to zoom in on high-resolution satellite images of the planet taken just hours or days ago.
"It will almost be like updating Google earth each day, he says
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And with that Levandowski has handed off control of his vehicle to software named Google Chauffeur. He takes his feet off the pedals and puts his hands in his lap.
It's not just Google that's developing the technology but also most of the major car manufacturers:
Following Google policy Levandowski drives through residential roads and surface streets himself while Chauffeur drives the freeways.
Levandowski works at Google's headquarters in Mountain view California. He's the business lead of Google's self-driving-car project an initiative that the company has been developing for the better part of a decade.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles
but they are also simply doing their job: ferrying Google employees back and forth from work. Commuters in Silicon valley report seeing one of the cars easily identifiable by a spinning turret mounted on the roof an average of once an hour.
Google itself reports that collectively the cars have driven more than 500000 miles without crashing. At a ceremony at Google headquarters last year where Governor Jerry brown signed California's self-driving-car bill into law Google cofounder Sergey Brin said you can count on one hand
the number of years until ordinary people can experience this. In other words a self-driving car will be parked on a street near you by 2018.
Yet releasing a car will require more than a website and a click here to download button.
In the language particular to Google the researchers are dogfooding the car driving to work each morning in the same way that Levandowski does.
Google needs to put the car in the hands of ordinary drivers in order to test the user experience.
We have a saying here at Google says Levandowski. In God we trust all others must bring data.
This spring Chris Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project told a government audience in Washington D c. that the vast majority of those are nothing to worry about.
For the errors worrisome enough to require human hands back on the wheel Google's crew of young testers have been trained in extreme driving techniques including emergency braking high-speed lane changes
There has been reported only one accident that can conceivably be blamed on Google. A self-driving car near Google's headquarters rear-ended another Prius with enough force to push it forward
and impact another two cars falling-dominoes style. The incident took place two years ago the Stone age in the foreshortened timelines of software development
and according to Google spokespeople the car was not in self-driving mode at the time so the accident wasn't Chauffeur's fault.
Considering that the Google self-driving program has clocked already half a million miles the argument could be made that Google Chauffeur is already as safe as the average human driver.
It's not an argument Google makes to the public because Levandowski says the system hasn't encountered enough challenging situations in its real-world commutes.
Google has been uncommonly secretive about its self-driving-car program. Though it began in 2009 the company first announced the project in a blog post a year later.
Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans but since it was accused of being the bad guy in a real-life Matrix the company has made a concerted effort to reach out to potential partners.
Google lobbyists have made the rounds with legislators in Washington. Its engineers have made pilgrimages to Detroit and abroad.
Google wants to make available to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use he said
if Google is proposing to give away the software. For the car companies the real cost of implementing the technology would be specialized in the peripheral that Chauffeur needs to run:
But at $75000 to $85000 each Google's lidar costs more than every other component in the self-driving car combined including the car itself.
A grizzled maverick of an engineer named David Hall designed the lidar that Google uses.
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask
Google to its credit shows no signs that it's allowing Detroit to slow it down.
Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one Levandowski says. So what's the plan?
In other words Google thinks a new generation of bot-rodders may kick things off. Google won't say anything more
but since there's really only one place to turn for the all-important lidar I ask David Hall
and the super-high-resolution Google maps that go with it Hall doesn't see the point. He imagines talking to potential customers.
âÂ#ÂALMOST as good as Google's?''âÂ# The other fight is the legal one.
The Google car doesn't work without one as Chauffeur needs to be able to hand back the reins with 10 20 or maybe even 30 seconds'notice.
Some states prodded by Google lobbyists and looking to get ahead of the curve have made the cars explicitly legal.
What's going to happen no matter what the law says is people are going to get sued Urmson the director of Google's self-driving-car project allows.
All kinds of problems crop up in real-world testing says auto-drive consultant Brad Templeton who worked with Google on its self-driving-car project for two years.
Google is betting that established car manufacturers working with low-cost radar and camera components will never adequately bridge that gap.
NHTSA's former deputy director Ron Medford has signed just on as Google's director of safety for the self-driving-car project.
Google's main focus and vision says Medford is for a level-four vehicle. Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
Google would buy it right now.:Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon.
To that end Google needs to do what it did for 1g fiber. Take it to some place where it can control the environment.
@jabailo...Google is way ahead of you...http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Google driverless car...they have logged a multitude of fully autonomous miles much more difficult than above
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