Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of conventional and electric vehicles
2012 study in the Journal of Industrial Ecology on how electric cars stack up against those with traditional gas and diesel engines over their entire lifetimes.
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Transportation safety over time: Cars, planes, trains, walking, cycling
2013 study by Northwestern University on the relative fatality risk of a broad range of motorized and non-motorized transportation modes in the United States.
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Ebola virus and U.S. preparedness: Research on quarantines, treatments, transmission
2014 review of research-based perspectives on the potential outbreak of Ebola virus in the United States and the challenges of dealing with a large-scale epidemic.
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Protests in Hong Kong: Research review on issues of freedom and democracy
2014 review of academic papers that help put the recent outbreak of civil disobedience and popular protests in Hong Kong into a deeper context.
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Assessing state and local government debt refinancing measures
2014 papers in State and Local Government Review that present key principles for evaluating whether to refinance debt and how policy makers should proceed.
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“Nonpracticing entities” and “patent trolls”: Evidence from targeted firms
2014 paper written for the National Bureau of Economic Research that analyzes the behavior of nonpracticing entities (NPEs) as well as the characteristics of companies likely to be targeted.
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Air strikes against the Islamic State (ISIS): Public opinion and historical perspective
2014 summary of polling on U.S. intervention in Syria and American sentiment at other key moments of military action through history.
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Impact of whaling on the ocean carbon cycle
2010 study by the University of Maine and others on the effect the ability of whales to sequester carbon and the potential benefits of restoring whale populations.
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Harvard’s José Gómez-Ibáñez: Key insights on the future of transportation and infrastructure
Harvard professor Gómez-Ibáñez talks about research on subjects as diverse as transit in the developing world, electric vehicles in urban areas and high-speed rail.
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The state of the nation’s housing, 2014: Rentals up, homeownership down, minorities become a force
2014 study the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University looking at housing-related trends in the United States, including construction and demographic change.
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