November 2017

Costs of the wild: how scientists measure lion behavior to learn what it takes to survive

11.30.17.

Catching and tagging wildlife is hard enough. But Chris Wilmers, an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz, whose lab studies wildlife ecology and global change, studies big carnivores, and he and his team want to know more than just where they are. He wants to know what it costs them to stay alive. “Moving around…
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For this doctor, a son’s death by overdose inspires his mission to rescue others

11.30.17.

For more, go to: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/for-this-doctor-a-sons-death-by-overdose-inspires-his-mission-to-rescue-others
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Rural internet and the rise of gig cities

11.29.17.

At the corner of Market and 11th, a former power building is filled with the comings and goings of life in tech. The signs in the lobby list the sort of bland, upbeat names one might see in any major city: “the Company Lab,” “the Enterprise Center,” “Tech Town,” “Society of Work.” The surrounding blocks…
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Can humans cope with long-term space travel? Astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year as a guinea pig.

11.16.17.

For more, go to: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-humans-cope-with-long-space-travel-astronaut-scott-kelly-spent-a-year-as-a-guinea-pig
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New statistics show synthetic opioids are driving overdose crisis in America

11.11.17.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released their final tally of fatal drug overdoses for 2016. All drug overdoses rose 21%, from 52,404 in 2015 to 63,632 in 2016. The vast majority of these were opioid overdoses, which rose 27% to 42,249 from the previous year. At this point, the opioid epidemic…
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The Big One

11.10.17.

Just before the shaking began, everyone’s phones began buzzing. Schoolchildren, railway drivers, dentists and firefighters all looked down at their phone just before 2:46pm local time on a spring Friday on the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku, in Japan. Earthquake, it told them. And then, eight seconds later, the shockwaves of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit them.…
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