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North Dakota inventions shown at Big Iron
When Chester Schantz attended the recent Big Iron Farm Show in West Fargo, N.D., he overheard someone talking about a device that reduces the odds of combine fires during sunflower harvest. Schantz says he turned around and told the person, “That was me.... -
Agriculture losing ground in innovation
Willmar, Minn. - America used to account for 21 percent of all research and development focused on agriculture in the world. Today, it is China that holds that lead position. The U.S. investment has shrunk to 14 percent, according to Dr. Brian Buhr,...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Colleges and Universities, Food Industry, Education, Research
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Goodlatte elected as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
Congressman Bob Goodlatte has been elected to serve as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Goodlatte was elected to the post by the House Republican Conference. His chairmanship will start in January when the 113th Congress begins. “I...
Tags: Immigration, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, U.S. House of Representatives, Antitrust Issues, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Here's the text of Gov. McDonnell's State of the Commonwealth Address
Here is the text of the governor's speech to the joint houses of the General Assembly, which began at 7 p.m.: Mr. Speaker. Mr. President. Justices of the Supreme Court and Judges of the State Corporation Commission, Ladies and Gentlemen of the...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Family, Consumers, Civil Rights, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Are the Ravens ready for the Patriots' no-huddle offense?
Having grown up in Annapolis, Bill Belichick remembers watching quarterback Johnny Unitas, one of the NFL's pioneers of the pass, drive the Baltimore Colts up and down the field with their version of the two-minute drill. At the time, no one did it...
Tags: Sports, Ed Dickson, Tom Brady, Stevan Ridley, New York Jets
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N. Joseph Woodland dies at 91; co-inventor of bar code
N. Joseph Woodland, a co-inventor of the system of thick and thin lines that became the ubiquitous bar code labeling nearly every product regulated by commerce, has died. He was 91. Woodland died Sunday at his home in Edgewater, N.J., from the effects...Tags: Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Bill Gates, Science and Technology, Engineering, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Mayor Villaraigosa outlines plan to boost Silicon Beach tech scene
The Los Angeles technology scene isn’t getting the respect it deserves, a situation that the city is looking to change, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday. At an event in West L.A., Villaraigosa said that despite a boom in new start-ups, so-...
Tags: Science and Technology, Startups, Antonio Villaraigosa, University of California, Los Angeles, Local Government
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Venture capital didn't build that
Can government play a positive role in economic development? To understand who built what in the construction of the American economy from its pre-industrial origins, a look at one of the drivers of U.S. innovation — venture capital — is...
Tags: Ecosystems, New Products, U.S. Military, Research, Productivity
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At JPL, teens learn rocket science by crafting toilet paper catapults
High school students have been known to sling a roll or two of toilet paper — but not many use catapults or compete with rocket scientists for the longest heave. Yet that was the task Friday at the 15th annual Invention Challenge at Jet...
Tags: Education, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Google Inc., Schools, High Schools
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College still matters
Young people and their parents are rightly nervous these days about the economy. Many wonder whether their investment in a college education will pay off. Such worries are overblown. College graduates continue to do far better, even in this difficult...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Globalization, University of Baltimore
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S.D. governor's pine beetle initiative wins Innovations Award
PIERRE - Gov. Dennis Daugaard's action plan to combat the mountain pine beetle infestation in the Black Hills has earned a 2012 Innovations Award from the Council for State Governments. The Governor's Black Hills Forest Initiative was recognized as an...Tags: Executive Branch, Science and Technology, Agriculture, Dennis Daugaard, Epidemics and Plagues
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Heavy-handed UCF should lighten up
Taking Names the Blog - Orlando SentinelToday's paper carried an interesting story about a UCF student who developed a new app to help students register for classes. You can read the piece for yourself. But basically, student Tim Arnold figured out a way to alert students when classes they...
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