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Captioning the Action I was shocked to read in "The Best Inventions of the Year" that you gave credit to a foreign university for a wireless captioning-subtitling glasses prototype without acknowledging innovators here in the U.S. who have been working on this technology for almost a decade [Nov. 19]. The Georgia Tech Research Institute is already in the final stages of commercial development of a wireless captioning-subtitling system in collaboration with a licensee and leaders in the movie industry. TIME's failure to recognize long-standing innovators in this area and inability to perform due diligence are very...
...about." She worries that the effects of her family's habits are the "Sasquatch of carbon footprints." It's so easy to make a difference every time we shop for cars, food or lightbulbs. I have a prescription for Cullen's eco-anxiety: Stop poking fun at people taking action, and just get with the program...
...action came after California had waited nearly two years for federal approval of its new auto regulations. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the right to pass auto emissions standards that are tougher than federal ones - a recognition of the state's historical struggles with air pollution. In this case, the state proposed rules that would have required automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% in all new cars and light trucks by 2016, beginning with the model 2009 year. All California needed was a waiver from the federal government, which has been virtually automatic over the past...
...national leader on environmental regulation. And several recent court cases have recognized the right of states to regulate CO2 as a pollutant like any other. The fact that at international climate meetings the White House has actually advertised state efforts like California's as evidence of American action on global warming only adds to suspicions that the EPA's ruling is essentially political. "If dealing with the most serious environmental threat of our time in our biggest state tackling its largest source of greenhouse gas pollution isn't extraordinary and compelling, I don't know what those words mean," says...
Scientists have suspected that FRMP exerts its braking action by attaching to receptors on the surface of brain cells, known as mGluR5 receptors (the Glu is for glutamate, a key signaling agent in the brain). They reasoned that it would be possible to correct the excesses of Fragile X by blocking these receptors, which act as accelerators of protein production. To test this idea, the researchers produced a special breed of mice that had the Fragile X trait but only half the normal number of mGluR5 receptors. The result, explains Bear: "We were able to correct the excesses [of Fragile...