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Greater St. Louis Inc. Tells Parents that Today’s Manufacturing Jobs are ‘Technology’

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 23, 2023.  Parents need to be educated that the manufacturing jobs that their children can get now are vastly different than the ones available decades ago, said a participant in a roundtable discussion at the Southwestern Illinois College Granite City campus. “Their conception of manufacturing is what it […]

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Jasmine Thomas

After a series of winter storms, regulators approve new standards for power plants

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Two years after Winter Storm Uri, which caused a massive power failure in Texas that caused more than 200 deaths, and just two months after another storm, Elliott, forced blackouts in parts of the South, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved new extreme cold reliability standards for power plants. However, the vote last week on […]

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Robert Zullo

Internationally Acclaimed Artist Alfredo Jaar to Speak at Principia College

2 years 4 months ago
ELSAH - Internationally acclaimed artist, architect, and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar will present a free lecture open to the public titled “It is difficult,” during which the artist will discuss his art, ideas, and studio practice. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Wannamaker Hall, on the Principia College campus in Elsah, Illinois. Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956, and has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. Considered one of the most important artists in the contemporary international art world, Jaar is known for using a wide range of media - including photography, film/video, sculpture, installation, and public interventions - to bring attention to difficult and often tragic events such as genocide, displacement of refugees, various social and racial injustices, and the imbalances of power among nations and peoples. He received the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2020, became a Guggenheim Fellow in

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Far UV is a promising technology to kill COVID viruses

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Now this is what I'm talking about: Washington DCs DCA airport boarding areas are outfitted with numerous 254 nm UV disinfection systems. pic.twitter.com/fnBC0gPZce — Dustin Poppendieck (@Poppendieck) February 23, 2023 I've written about this before: it's called Far UV, and it's ultraviolet light in a range that's deadly to COVID-19 but harmless to human beings. ...continue reading "Far UV is a promising technology to kill COVID viruses"
Kevin Drum