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...after so many years of brain research showing that most of our everyday cognitions result from a complex but observable interaction of proteins and neurons and other mostly uncontrolled cellular activity, how can so many otherwise rational people think dreams should be taken seriously? After all, brain activity isn't mystical but - for the most part - highly predictable...
...loan guarantees to build up its nascent wind industry. Copenhagen covered 30% of investment costs, and guaranteed loans for large turbine exporters such as Vestas. It also mandated that utilities purchase wind energy at a preferential price - thus guaranteeing investors a customer base. Energy taxes were channeled into research centers, where engineers crafted designs that would eventually produce cutting-edge giants like Vestas' 3-megawatt (MW) V90 turbine. (Read TIME's "Heroes of the Environment...
Denmark's dominance of wind power was born in the Riso National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy. Riso, founded in 1958 to focus on nuclear research, is easy to miss on the road to the university town of Roskilde; only the test turbines on its grounds give away the campus's purpose. Turbine manufacturers from around the world test at Riso, where researchers are so expert at honing the aerodynamics of a blade that they've helped turn wind turbines from backyard mills to multi-megawatt farms...
...Mark Kirk, recently reelected to a Congressional seat representing a nearby Chicago suburb. Kirk, in fact, is widely viewed as the kind of Republican social-moderate that Steele believes can succeed in Democratic-leaning states like Illinois. However, Kirk's moderate stances on issues like abortion and stem-cell research could prove problematic with social conservatives, particularly in the southern part of the state...
...system in the 1950s," he said. "The largest investment in education in our nation's history," he continued. "The most meaningful steps in years towards modernizing our health-care system," he went on. "A big step down the road to energy independence," he announced. "The biggest increase in basic research funding in the long history of America's noble endeavor to better understand the world," he concluded. Look for lots of this sort of boasting in Obama's speech before Congress. And when Obama mentions these programs, look to see which politicians in the audience stand to applaud. Republicans...