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 (Knoxville News Sentinel) William H. "Andy" Andrews, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the new president of the Tennessee Academy of Science....11/22
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 (Blender Nation) At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, the largest computing complex in the world devoted to computational science, Blender is used to support scientific visualization....11/22
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East Tennessee
 (Wired) A mix of local and national investors have partnered to launch the Gig City Gig Tank and are offering $300,000 of cold, hard, start-up cash and prizes to be split among entrepreneurs and students with the best ideas for how to create the fastest internet in the world....11/22
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Congressional officials vowed Tuesday that the effort to slash trillions of dollars in federal spending will not end just because a special "super committee" has given up on forging a compromise deficit-reduction plan....11/23
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National
(USA Today) The Obama administration is using Congress' own leverage against it, signaling it will go through with $55 billion a year in defense cuts if Congress can't find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction before the next election....11/23
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Across the Tennessee Valley, 2011 is ending much the same way it began — with an uptick in economic activity. TVA's chief economic developer, John Bradley, was hopeful that 2011 would see prolonged economic growth after more than two years of depressed activity....11/23 |
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energy & science policy
11/22 A daily report on U.S. energy policy
[ORNL users only]
** Neb. governor signs Keystone XL bills
** EPA delays will not hurt UN talks: envoy
** US hardens sanctions on Iran energy sector
** Markey blasts DOE over Hanford safety
** Forest Service delays Wyo. gas project
science & technology
(Washington Post) Less than a week before U.N. negotiators convene in South Africa for a new round of talks aimed at forging a global climate pact, a hacker has released an apparent second round of e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain, seeking to portray climate scientists in a negative light....11/23
(BBC) Contact has finally been made with Russia's troubled Mars mission, says the European Space Agency. The agency reports that its tracking station in Perth, Australia, picked up a signal from the Phobos-Grunt probe....11/23
(NPR) The auto industry has work ahead to meet ambitious fuel efficiency goals of 55 mpg by 2025 — nearly twice the current average required. Hybrid and electric cars will play a role, but the plain old internal combustion engine can't be overlooked....11/23
(PhysOrg) Scientists, mimicking nature, have long sought to manipulate surfaces to create wrinkles and folds to make smaller, more flexible electronic devices, fluid-carrying nanochannels or even printable cell phones and computers....11/23
OTHER STORIES
(Wired) "Building 31," part of Boeing's research facility in Huntington Beach, Calif., helped develop some of the Pentagon's most secretive weapons....11/22
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