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FutureStructure
Last year, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released its autonomous vehicle guidelines, the document helped lay out a strategy for how the government will adopt self-driving vehicles. NHTSA suggested that the vehicle itself should be certified safe as a part of its federal motor vehicle safety standards and that states should remain responsible for the licensing and registration of the vehicle.
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The Associated Press via Orlando Sentinel
At least 126,000 acres have burned in wildfires across Florida since January, surpassing the five-year average of acreage burned in a typical year, officials said.
Florida's fire season peaks this month, during the driest part of the year in the state, and experts warn that the fire risk may worsen in the coming weeks.
"It's fairly likely we're going to get drier before there is relief from this," said state climatologist David Zierden, at Florida State University's Florida Climate Center
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Campus Safety Magazine
It may seem hard to believe, but April 16, 2017, is the 10-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting. The tragedy claimed the lives of 32 people and left the country grieving and in shock.
The shooting also opened everyone’s eyes to the importance of emergency preparedness and marked the beginning of an overhaul of campus emergency operations that has transformed the way many college public safety departments function.
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The Weather Channel
You can probably guess the nation's most tornado-ravaged states, but a NOAA dataset allows us to zero in on the most tornado-prone counties in the U.S.
Using the Storm Events database from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, we compiled tornado data for each county in the U.S. from 1950-2016. Since a given tornado may travel over multiple counties, the dataset isn't strictly the number of tornadoes, but rather number of tornado segments.
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By Catherine Iste
 Driving, swimming and being pregnant are good examples of when "fake it until you make it" is clearly not a good idea. Surprisingly, though, there are a lot of great times when this philosophy can really benefit us at work. The bottom line is: If we want to become a composed, organized and professional-looking leader, it might help to start practicing right now. However, if we just want to look like one, we can do that overnight with a quick fake.
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Governing
Starting next year, Washington college students who take out student loans will get an email or letter from their school telling them how much they owe and how much their monthly loan payments will be after graduation.
The notification is part of a new bill, the Student Loan Transparency Act, which passed with bipartisan support in the state Legislature last week.
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Forbes
It is the time of year in which hurricane discussions pick up. As I write this, the National Hurricane Center is giving a subtropical cyclone a 30 percent chance of development in the central Atlantic. Early hurricane seasonal outlooks have been issued and are calling for an "average to slightly below" average Atlantic hurricane season. So it also feels like the time for a little "Hurricane Cone of Uncertainty 101."
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Scientific American
For several days in late September 2015, heavy rains soaked the earth surrounding the district of El Cambray II in Guatemala. On the first night of the following month, steep slopes, long held in place by thick, tropical tree roots, suddenly gave way, burying hundreds of homes in mud up to 15 meters deep. At least 280 people died.
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Quartz via Government Executive
Team work in the workplace has long been valued. Less well understood is why working in teams is so much more effective than tackling tasks as individuals.
The answer lies in human origins, and our evolution as social animals, according to Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach, cognitive scientists and authors of "The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone." Our brains developed into large and sophisticated organs to keep up with the size and complexity of our social groups, according to one influential theory, they write.
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Nextgov
The government must upgrade the digital weapons it uses to defend federal networks from nation-state and criminal hackers, Homeland Security Secretary Gen. John Kelly said.
Kelly cited “nation-state actors with extremely sophisticated tools,” “lone wolves” and “cyber terrorists that simply buy malware on the internet” as top cyber adversaries during his first major speech as secretary at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.
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Phys.org
Current wildfire policy can't adequately protect people, homes and ecosystems from the longer, hotter fire seasons climate change is causing, according to a new paper led by the University of Colorado Boulder. Efforts to extinguish every blaze and reduce the buildup of dead wood and forest undergrowth are becoming increasingly inadequate on their own. Instead, the authors — a team of wildfire experts — urge policymakers and communities to embrace policy reform that will promote adaptation to increasing wildfire and warming.
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