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New center aims to spur research on climate change and health – HSPH News
May 9, 2023 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have been awarded a $6.7 million, three-year grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to create a Research Coordinating Center (RCC) on climate change and health
Researchers seek algorithms that wont destroy the planet: ChatGPTs energy consumption must be brutal – EL PAS USA
One day in 2019, while reading a scientific article, a light bulb went off for researcher Vernica Boln, an expert in artificial intelligence. It said that training an AI language model emitted CO equivalent to that of five cars over its lifetime. I was shocked
Five Ideas for the Education Sciences Reform Act – Federation Of American Scientists
Earlier this month, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee called on the education community for input on policies to include in a reauthorized Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA). First enacted in 2002 and last reauthorized in 2008, the ESRA established the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) as the independent research branch of the Department of Education and broadly authorized the federal government to conduct coordinated and scientifically-based research on the US education system. The potential reauthorization of the ESRA by the 118th Congress marks a major opportunity to update and streamline our education research and development (R&D) ecosystem for the modern era
As Covid Emergency Ends, Surveillance Shifts to the Sewers – The New York Times
When the Covid-19 public health emergency expires in the United States on Thursday, the coronavirus will not disappear. But many of the data streams that have helped Americans monitor the virus will go dark. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop tabulating community levels of Covid-19 and will no longer require certain case information from hospitals or testing data from laboratories
Introducing watsonx: The future of AI for business – IBM Newsroom
Today is a revolutionary moment for artificial intelligence (AI).
Board of Regents medals awarded for teaching excellence … – University of Hawaii
The Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded by the Board of Regents as tribute to faculty members who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students. Rosanna Alegado is an associate professor of oceanography in the University of Hawaii at Mnoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)
Leak Reveals Secret Democrat Plan For A Game-Changing U.S. Crypto Crackdown That Could Hit The Price Of Bitcoin And Ethereum – Forbes
05/14 update below.
Ethereum (ETH) Supply Down 0.285% in 240 Days Post-Merge – BeInCrypto
Today marks 240 days since an event the Ethereum community has come to know as the merge. And its effects on the total ETH supply are clear. Arguably the most significant upgrade in its history, the merge saw the Ethereum network transition from a Proof of Work (PoW) consensus mechanism to one based on Proof of Stake (PoS)
Crypto Braced For Stampede As Legendary Investor Issues $200 Trillion Warning After Wild Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Dogecoin, Polygon And…
BitcoinBTC, ethereum and the wider crypto market have rocketed this year though the price rally has stalled this week as a leaked memo revealed a secret Democrat plan for a U.S. crypto crackdown.
Ethereum gas fees at 10-month high! Investors excited about 100x Meme Coins DigiToads and Pepe – Analytics Insight
Ethereums gas fees recently surged up to a 10-month high, mainly off the back of increased buyer demand for ER20 tokens like PEPE, which saw 21,000% gains in just a few days. While nobody wants increased gas fees, we do want gains for our portfolio, and the altcoin growth season looks to be well underway