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Conspiracy-Minded People Were More Likely to Hesitate on COVID Vax
New research shows that people who had a conspiracy mindset before the pandemic were more likely to believe fake info about COVID.
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What the World Would Lose With the Demise of Twitter: Valuable Eyewitness Accounts and Raw Data on Human Behavior, as Well as a Habitat for Trolls
Twitter is a lot more than just tweets.
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Biden to Federal Contractors: Make Plans to Cut Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Companies supplying the largest buyer of goods on the planet could soon have to get in line with the Paris Agreement.
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What is Mastodon? A Social Media Expert Explains How the ‘Federated’ Network Works and Why it Won’t be a New Twitter
Mastodon is billing itself as one of several alternatives to Twitter.
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Artemis Launch Delay Is the Latest of Many NASA Scrubs and Comes from Hard Lessons on Crew Safety
After its fourth delay, the Artemis 1 launch is now scheduled for Nov. 16, 2022. NASA has a history of missing launch deadlines, but the private sector is slowly making launches more reliable.
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8 Billion People: Four Ways Climate Change and Population Growth Combine to Threaten Public Health, With Global Consequences
Can the warming world support the human population?
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Enhancing the FITARA scorecard
Opportunities exist to enhance the FITARA scorecard to ensure its continued relevance and to keep pace with technology changes.
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A Vision for Digital Transformation at VA
Solution-focused engineering and collaboration can address many of the key challenges VA is facing and facilitate practical solutions.
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Women get Fewer Chances to Speak on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, According to an AI-powered, Large-scale Analysis of Interruptions
On large news networks, artificial intelligence suggests women "get fewer opportunities" to engage in dialog that gets politically contentious.
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How existing policy can help fill the cyber workforce gap
There's still time to retool the Cyber Talent Management System at DHS to create a cadre of cyber specialists to fill key roles at federal civilian agencies.
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Mass Migration From Twitter is Likely to be an Uphill Battle – Just Ask ex-Tumblr Users
We've gone through this before.
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Who Sees What You Flush? Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health is on the Rise, but a new Survey Reveals Many US Adults are Still Unaware
Have you ever wondered who is spying on your waste?
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The White House’s ‘AI Bill of Rights’ Outlines Five Principles to Make Artificial Intelligence Safer, More Transparent and Less Discriminatory
Will it have any significant impact?
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Emissions From E-Waste Spiked 53% in 6 Years
Electronic devices emit a significant amount of pollution.
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Most Americans Do Trust Scientists and Science-based Policy-Making – Freaking Out About the Minority Who Don’t Isn’t Helpful
Over three-quarters of U.S. adults say they think scientists act in the public interest.
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Why are there so many tributes to Ash Carter on my Facebook page?
Steve Kelman considers the impact of a colleague.
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A national digital strategy for transforming government
It’s time to rethink the focus on customer experience to reimagine government operations from the ground up
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(More) Clarity in the Clouds – What’s Needed to Secure Multi-Cloud Environments
Every cloud provider has its own architecture, security model and service.
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