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...Jones VentureSource, and they'd like a nice return. (But at least the VCs are spending money - federal investment in renewable energy research is a paltry $1 billion, or roughly a day of revenue for Exxon Mobil.) But there's no reason that business can't be a major part of the climate change solution, or that profit isn't concordant with a desire to save the Earth. Krupp writes about Jack Newman, a California surfer and former college dropout who helped found the promising biofuel start up Amyris. The company is working on ways to bioengineer better, cleaner...
...Harvard professors. On Tuesday, she testified in front of a U.S. Senate committee, speaking in support of increasing the NIH budget and expanding federal grants for biomedical research. Faust identified several key reasons why such a change is necessary for the future viability of the biomedical field. A major concern is that junior researchers are becoming especially neglected as funding tightens. In a report issued by Harvard and six research institutions, the average age at which professors are first awarded an R01 research grant has risen from 39 to 43 since 1990. R01 grants to fund individual projects make...
Silverglate voiced his concern over how changing moods across the country, especially in relation to fears of terrorism, have influenced charges are brought against criminals, a major theme in the book he is currently writing. Silverglate cited an MIT student arrested for a fake Styrofoam bomb in Logan Airport and a professor accused of bioterror in protest...
According to Silverglate, the war on terror atmosphere has permeated the bubble of college campuses, and he pointed to the Ad Board as an example of this trend. To the unanimous head-nodding of his listeners, Silverglate voiced strong opposition to the Ad Board, noting a major point of contention with its structure...
...facing Washington, however, is that as pricey as oil is these days, there's no shortage of customers elsewhere in the world. (There are also plenty of investors pouring billions into oil futures as a hedge against the falling dollar - and so driving up oil prices even more.) The major reason for the current high prices is that OPEC's production has been seriously stretched by the huge increase in demands from booming China and India, as well as from oil-rich countries in the Middle East itself, says Lawrence Eagles, chief economist of the Paris-based International Energy Agency...