The Space Science Institute, with funding from the NASA Science Mission Directorate and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, provided unprecedented training, support, and supplies to 15,000 libraries in the U.S. and territories in support of public engagement during the 2023 and 2024 eclipses.
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In the past 30 years, meat consumption has increased by 30% in many parts of China, while grain consumption has decreased by about 35%, playing a significant role in the more than 300 million people who have heart disease. At the same time, “rates of type 2 diabetes in China have exploded in the last couple of decades” to about 110 million people, according to the...
Michael Lissner November 1, 2013 Note: This is the third in the series of posts explaining the work that we did to release the data donation from Lawbox LLC. This is a very technical post exploring and documenting the process we use for extracting meta data and merging it with our current collection. If you’re not technically-inclined (or at least curious), you...
Michael Lissner January 30, 2016 While working on a soon-to-be-released feature of CourtListener, we needed to create “short form” case names for all the cases that we could. We’re happy to share that we’ve created about 1.8M short form case names, including complete coverage for all Supreme Court cases going back to 1947, when the Supreme...
William Brangham: It’s a protest unique not only for its size, but for those leading it, young activists, many leaving school today to make their point. The movement you see here today began over a year ago, and most of these protesters would credit one Sweden teenager for getting it all started, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. Last fall, Thunberg started skipping...