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Feeding Everyone No Matter What

• 1-4. Bacterial Slime: It's what's for Dinner (After a Catastrophic Crop Failure) - MTU News, Eureka Alert, Newswise, Bioportfolio
• 5-9. Bacterial slime: It's what's for dinner - Science Daily, Indian Daily, Daily Me, Lab Manager Magazine, All About Microbiology
• 10. Bacterial slime may be survivalist solution to catastrophic crop failure - Phys.org
• 11. 10 Foods You Could Eat After a Global Catastrophe - Discovery News
• 12.Bacteria and Bugs Could Help Humans Survive Food Shortage- Nature World News
• 13. Managing food security after global catastrophe- News Medical
• 14. Surviving Global Disasters May Mean Eating Slime - Mysterious Universe
• 15. Bacterial slime: It’s what’s for dinner - The Global Fruit
• 16. Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday - Daily Kos
• 17. We'll be Supping on Slime in the food apocalypse - Science Made Easy
• 18. Bacterial slime or what to feed the world after catastrophic crop failure - Food Processing (Australia)
• 19. New Book Offers Food Source Options For Catastrophic Scenarios - BetaWired
• 20-26. Elsevier Expands Food Science Portfolio With Seven New Books - Elsevier, CNN Money, Street Insider, Broadway Book World, MW Market World, Knowledge Speak.com, Market Wired
• 27. Bacterial Slime – Supper for the Survivalist - Net News Ledger
• 28. Bacterial slime could feed the world after a catastrophic crop failure- RyPul Threat Assessments
• 29. Feeding Everyone No Matter What - Frequency (vid)
• 30-31. Bacterial Slime: It's What's for Dinner - Wisconsin Ag Connection, Win 98.5. WTVB-AM
• 32. Bacterial Slime: It’s what’s for Dinner (After a Catastrophic Crop Failure) - Innovation Toronto
• 33. Finding food after a disaster - Mining Gazette
• 34. Finding food after a disaster - Food Industry Today
• 35. After The Apocalypse, This Is What We'd Eat - Refinery 29
• 36. How We'd Feed Ourselves After The Apocalypse- PaleoFuture Gizmodo (~26,000 hits) Gizmodo on Twitter Gizmodo UK
• 37. After The Apocalypse, This Is What We’d Eat BUZZFEED Community
• 38. Here’s What We’d Eat at the End of the World - RYOT
• 39. What to Eat After the Apocalypse - Nautilus, Climateer Investing
• 40. What to Eat After the Apocalypse - Issue 101: In Our Nature - Nautilus KQED Science
• 41. What to Eat After the Apocalypse the Trendy Things
• 42-43. How We Could Survive After the Apocalypse - Newser, Lockerdome
• 44. A Guide To The Most Nutritious Post-Apocalypse Cuisine - io9 (~10,000 hits)
• 45. The Post-Apocalyptic Diet - The Dish
• 46. Bacterial Slime or what to feed the world after catastrophic crop failure - What’s New in Food Technology Jan/Feb 2015
• 46-47. What Nuclear Winter Would do to the World's Food Supply - Long Reads, BBC
• 48-50. How to survive when the sun doesn't rise: sustainable food preparedness during a nuclear winter - Natural News, Ready Nutrition, The Common Sense Show
• 51-52. How to Survive When the Sun Doesn't Come Out: Sustainable Food Preparedness During a Nuclear Winter Top World Headlines, Christian Patriots,
• 53. Potential future disasters IMDb
• 54. Cool Links / Ideas -Its A Disaster
• 55. Aftermath: Finding practical paths to recovery after a worldwide catastrophe. Future of Life Institute
• 56. Feeding Everyone Talon Newspaper page 9
• 57. Why You Don't Have to Be Libertarian A-Hole to Survive a Worldwide Catastrophe - AlterNet
• 58. Engineering alumni tackle potential global catastrophe - Penn State News
• 59. Feeding Everyone No Matter What - Future of Life Institute
• 60-62. Here’s how the world could end—and what we can do about it - Science, Daily Starfish, Mini Planet, Science.bio.1000 (China), Gig Casa (China), WanHaujing (China)
• 63. Catastrophic Thinking About Catastrophes Real Psychiatry
• 64 How do you feed the Whole Earth After the Apocalypse? - Eideard
• 65-68 These Researchers Want To Prepare Us For The Post-Apocalypse-Futurism, Malaysian Digest, Waking Science,Tech Geeks
• 69 Book Review - The Bayesian Investor

Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development

• Your Open Source 3D Printed Designs Could Save the 3D Printing Community Millions - 3DPrint.com
• 3D Printed Open Hardware Syringe Yields $800M Value, Study Finds- 3D Printing Industry
• Measuring the value of open hardware design - Open Source
• Measuring the value of open hardware design - Slash Dot, Hackbusters
• Quanto vale l'open hardware - Punto Informatico - largest Italian online newspaper 1.1m/month
• How to Make Millions of Dollars of Value with Open Source Hardware - GTN News (CBS, NBC Florida), KoamTV (CBS Missouri), WSLS 10 (ABC Virginia), WSPA (CBS South Carolina), News9 Oklahoma
• How valuable is an open hardware design? - Open Electronics
• Open Source Syringe Pump Could Save Millions - 3DPrint.com
• L'open source può veramente cambiare il mondo della ricerca scientifica?3Discover.it
• Review - Gear Chicken
• 3D Printing Enables a Smartphone’s Transformation into a Dual Spectrometer - 3D Printing Industry
• Essay of the Day: Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development - P2P Foundation

Polymer recycling codes for distributed manufacturing with 3-D printers

• A Call to Change Recycling Standards as 3-D Printing Expands - Michigan Tech News, Pans and Pots, Eureka Alert, Newswise, R&D Magazine, Phys.org,Environment Guru, Nanowerk, e-science news, Space Daily, Product Design and Development, 3D Printing Progress, Michigan ag Connection, Modern Plastics & Polymers, Innovation Toronto
• Call to change recycling standards as 3-D printing expands - Science Daily
• New & Improved Recycling Standards for the 3D Printing Era - 3D Printing Industry
• Michigan researchers call for a change in recycling codes to benefit 3D printing - 3ders, 3DP Expo
• Michigan Tech's new recycling codes cut costs of 3D printing - Waste Dive
• New coding response to 3-D printing challenge - Recycling International
• Recycling Makes 3-D Printing Even Cheaper - Laboratory Equipment
• Adding Recycling Codes To 3D Prints - Hack-A-Day
• Researchers Seek New Policy for 3D Printing Recycling - Liberty Beat
• New Plastic Recycling Codes Could Turn 3D Printers Into Home Recycling Stations - Sustainablog
• Technologies That Can Reduce Plastic Waste - Plastic Technologies
• Recycling Standards May Need Revision as 3D Printing Expands - IHS Engineering 360
• Recycling For 3-D Printing - Asia Pacific Equipment News

Open-source 3-D printing Technologies for Education: Bringing Additive Manufacturing to the Classroom

Michigan Tech 3-D printer workshop FOX

Michigan Tech 3-D printer workshop ABC

Applications of Open Source 3-D Printing on Small Farms

• 3D Printing Low-Cost Tools for Organic Farmers in the Developing World - 3D Printing Industry
• The advantages of RepRap 3D printing on farms in the developing world - 3Ders
• 3D Printing Offers Economic Advantages to Third World Farmers - Inside 3D Printing
• Open mapping for sustainability, 3D printing on the farm, and more open source news - Opensource.com
• 3D print.com
• The advantages of RepRap 3D printing on farms - Open Electronics
• La agricultura, un campo de cultivo para la Impresión 3D - HW Libre
• Disrupted agriculture – farming and IoT combine to beat food insecurity -iDisrubuted
• 3D printers may be the next best piece of farm equipment - Ontario Farmer

In Situ Formation of Substrate Release Mechanisms for Gas Metal Arc Weld Metal 3-D Printing

• Michigan Tech Opens Up Reusable Substrates for Metal 3D Printing - 3D Printing Industry
• Researchers Solve Major Issue Surrounding Metal 3D Printing With Reusable Substrates - 3D Print
• New research into gas metal arc weld 3D printing unveils easier part removal techniques - 3Ders
• Researchers solve key problem surrounding metal 3D printing - Australian Manufacturing

Open-Source Photometric System for Enzymatic Nitrate Quantification

• Making a Better Nitrate Test Kit - Michigan Tech News, Phys.org, Science News Online, Product Design and Development, Lab Manager Magazine, R&D Magazine, Science Daily, ChemEurope, Analytica World, Q-More, Innovation Toronto,Technology.org, Environmental Research Web, Daily Green World
• New Compact and Affordable Nitrate Test Kit Developed for Citizens - SciCasts
• MICHIGAN TECH LAB MAKING A BETTER NITRATE TEST KIT - Tech Century
• Michigan Tech students create nitrate testing device - TV6 (NBC) and Fox UP
• New Nitrate Tester Developed - The Keweenaw Report
• Simple, Cheap Nitrate Tester is Open Source - HackADay, Hackable Devices.org
• Open Source Nitrate test kit is a great chemistry learning tool - Reef Builders
• Testing gizmo: Tech photometer finds nitrates in water, soil - The Mining Gazette
• Low-Cost Handheld Device for Nutrient Measurement Ag Tech Exchange
• Verificador de nitrato Open Source - Boa informacao
• WATER QUALITY MONITORING ON YOUR SMARTPHONE FROM UP FIRM - Tech Century

Photovoltaic System Performance Enhancement With Non-Tracking Planar Concentrators: Experimental Results and Bi-Directional Reflectance Function (BDRF) Based Modelling

• Shining More Light on Solar Panels - Michigan Tech News, ECN Magazine, Phys.org, Science Codex, Nanowerk, R&D Magazine, Innovations Report, Chem Europe, Lab Manager Magazine, Solar Daily, Michigan Ag Connection, EWAO, Planet Energy News
• Solar Panels Can Produce More Energy Through New Technique - Science World Report
• Una nuova tecnica per potenziare i pannelli solari: potranno produrre il 30% di energia in più - Tiscali Scienza(Italy)
• Fotovoltaico, gli scienziati aggiungono un 30% all’energia in uscita - Rinnovabili (Italy)
• Raising solar panel system output by 30% - Market Business News
• Study Shows Reflectors Could Maximize Solar Panels Productivity - AZO Cleantech
• New Method Enables Use of Reflectors to Shine More Light on Solar Panels - World Industrial Reporter
• Solar Panels Just Got a Little Bit Brighter - The Epoch Times
• Boosting solar panel efficiency: Is it simply a matter of angles? -- EE Times Europe
• EE Times India
• EE Times China
• Researchers Discover How to Shine More Sunlight on Solar Panels, Increase Output By 30% - IHS Electronics 360
• Light reflection model boosts solar farm efficiency - Smart 2 Zero
• Forma fácil de aumentar el rendimiento de paneles solares ya instalados - Noticias de la Ciencia (Spanish)
• 研究人员利用双向反射模型提高PV聚光效率 - Laoyaobo (Chinese)
• Hallan modo de aumentar eficiencia de paneles solares -- Presna Latina (official state news agency of Cuba/Spanish), Primer Momento (Dominican Republic /Spanish)
• Zusatzreflektor steigert Ausbeute bei Solaranlagen -- Elektor Magazine (Germany)
• Michigan Tech research team aim to increase sunlight reaching solar panels, may improve output by 30%- PV Buzz
• US researchers aim to improve use of reflectors for solar plants - Photon
• Hallan modo de aumentar eficiencia de paneles solares - Pais Distinto Press (Spanish/Dominican Republic)
• Výzkum zvýšení efektivity solárních panelů - FCC Public (Czech)
• Fotovoltaico, 30% di efficienza energetica in più sfruttando il sole perso fra i pannelli - Elettronica (Italian)
• More Realistic Modeling for More Efficient Solar Farms - Solar Novus Today
• Video games and action movies help crank up solar PV output - Electric Business
• Shining More Light on Solar Panels Opli Magazine (Israel)

A novel approach to obviousness: An algorithm for identifying prior art concerning 3-D printing materials

• New Algorithm Fights to Keep 3D Printing Materials Open to All - 3D Printing Industry
• Joshua Pearce creates new algorithm for obviousness to prevent 3D printing material patents - 3ders , Maker 3DPrinting
• Shots Fired: The 3D Printing Materials IP War Has Begun as Joshua Pearce Releases Algorithm for Obviousness - 3DPrint, 3D Printing Magazine
• 3D打印原材料知识产权之争全面开火！ -MW35 (China)
• What are the legal aspects of 3D printing? A European law firm weighs in. - 3Ders
• This One Publication Can Invalidate Most 3D Printing Patents - GreyB

Reducing the Threat of a Nuclear Iran with Photovoltaic Technology: The Generous Solar Option

• Egypt's nuclear energy folly- Al Jazeera

Aligning executive incentives with global public health goals

• Just how bad is being a CEO in big tobacco? - 80,000 Hours
• Being a tobacco CEO is not quite as bad as it might seem - Effective Altruism