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NASA’s Upgraded Hyperwall Offers Improved Data Visualization

In May, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, celebrated the newest generation of its hyperwall system, a wall of LCD screens that display supercomputer-scale visualizations of the very large datasets produced by NASA supercomputers and instruments.  The upgrade is the fourth generation...

Physicians Committee Offers $4K to Bring Plant-Based School Lunches to N.C. School District

Physicians Committee Nutrition Education Coordinator Noah Praamsma, MS, RDN, outlined the details of the grant offer. Joseph Barrocas, MD, a pediatrician from Huntersville, N.C., spoke about childhood obesity and the related lifestyle diseases he treats in children. And Roxanne Becker, MBChB, a medical doctor with the Physicians Committee, spoke about the dangers of...

National Physicians Group Offers North Carolina School District $4K to Pay for Plant-Based School Lunch Pilot Program

MORGANTON, N.C. — Experts from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C.-based national health advocacy organization, joined a North Carolina pediatrician in speaking at Burke County Public Schools board meeting on Monday, May 13, 2024, to urge officials there to accept a $4,000 grant to pilot two plant-based entrees in three of the...

New Working Paper Offers Roadmap for Next Administration on Govt.  Performance & Use of Evidence

New Working Paper Offers Roadmap for Next Administration on Govt.  Performance & Use of Evidence Post Date: October 05, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new bipartisan working paper authored by former senior U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officials Dr. Shelley H. Metzenbaum and Robert J. Shea, entitled Performance Accountability, Evidence and...