Imperial Valley News Center
Does brain training really work?
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Berkeley, California - growing stream of ads and websites hype the marvels of computer-based cognitive programs and brain games for anxiously aging baby boomers and their parents, writes John Swartzberg in a new column on livescience.com.
Governor Brown Discusses Fires With Emergency Personnel At State Operations Center
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Sacramento, California - With devastating fires burning across California, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today joined CAL FIRE Director Ken Pimlott, Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci and other fire and emergency personnel at the State Operations Center for a briefing on the latest fire conditions.
Efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - In a modern, multicore chip, every core - or processor - has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. But the chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores can access.
Local and national governments spur growth better in tandem
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - The country of Colombia has long been riven by paramilitary groups and guerillas. Over the last five years or so, the government has gradually reclaimed lost ground, but the process has been a difficult one. Can Colombia teach us anything about state-building and its challenges?
Bubble, bubble … boiling on the double
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - The boiling of water is at the heart of many industrial processes, from the operation of electric power plants to chemical processing and desalination. But the details of what happens on a hot surface as water boils have been poorly understood, so unexpected hotspots can sometimes melt expensive equipment and disable plants.
Untangling the mechanics of knots
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Got rope? Then try this experiment: Cross both ends, left over right, then bring the left end under and out, as if tying a pair of shoelaces. If you repeat this sequence, you get what’s called a “granny” knot. If, instead, you cross both ends again, this time right over left, you’ve created a sturdier “reef” knot.
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