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Christine Hauser and Kathryn Carlson reported in yesterday’s Times – online editions, in any case, that Rondell Grant, eleven years old, was killed last Saturday by a hit-and-run driver. Brooklyn Boy, 11, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver. Grant was apparently killed after two cars sped past him – he then stepped into the street and was [...]
The Energy Blog reports that a private vendor is working with Con Edison to make the grid more secure. We’re intrigued – but concerned that the grid will remain heavily centralized – and not in a position to accept many small, decentralized production nodes – e.g., the solar panel that you’re thinking about putting on [...]
Alexis Madrigal of ABCNews reports that Google – and its nonprofit branch, Google.org, will start tracking disease outbreaks. A new website, HealthMap, addresses that challenge by siphoning up text from Google News, the World Health Organization and online discussion groups, then filtering it and boiling it down into mapped data that researchers — and the [...]
Sarah Lyall reports in the Times that the British, trailing EU countries in recycling, are experiencing some friction trying to catch up: WHITEHAVEN, England — The citizens of Whitehaven try, really they do. They separate out their cans, their paper, their cardboard and their glass, and they recycle them all. They compost. They jump up [...]
In a country so harsh about other matters of personal autonomy (sex, in particular) I found it surprising that Iran would have a progressive syringe exchange policy and and a fairly gentle drug regime. From Nazila Fathi’s June 27th piece in the Times, "Iran Fights Scourge of Addiction in Plain View, Stressing Treatment:" More than [...]