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Economic Model Looks at History, Sees Victory Ahead for Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook August 28, 2012 CommentNever mind the media's current focus on campaign trail gaffes, tax returns, abortion, Medicare budget cuts, Obamacare, and the Republican Party's disdain for science in the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney will win because of underlying economic conditions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, two University of Colorado political scientists predict.
Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry have developed an economic and political forecasting model to analyze economic data from the 50 states and D.C. going back to 1980 in order to predict the presidential campaign winner. And, they say, their model predicts that Romney will win.
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No One Wins Game of Distracted Driving
Tweet Share on Facebook August 17, 2012 CommentYou've been training for it all your life--playing games like Call of Duty or Super Mario Cart on your Xbox or Wii until all hours of the night. Now that you're an experienced video gamer, a wiz at incredible levels of onscreen multi-tasking, you believe you're clearly better at simultaneously driving a real car and talking on the phone than your average non-gamer grandmother in the seat next to you.
You'd be wrong.
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New Burst of Energy Could Bring Cold Fusion to Front Burner
Tweet Share on Facebook August 8, 2012 CommentAfter decades of wandering in the scientific wilderness, cold fusion may be returning to the land of the acceptable.
It's been more than 20 years since esteemed researchers Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann electrified the world with news that they'd observed low-energy nuclear reactions, or LENR, at the atomic level that generated excess heat, holding out the promise of "cold fusion" that did not require the blast furnace of nuclear fission as part of the energy-creating process.
