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Horizon Magazine
Virtual reality and scenario-testing models are being built to help urban planners and architects get real-time feedback about the impact of their designs on mental health, particularly for older people. Europe’s cities are getting greyer. The EU’s 2018 ageing report claims that by 2070, more than half of Europeans will be over the age of 65. Poor health and a limited income mean older people can be more susceptible to isolation, depression and mental decline.
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Government Technology
Widespread connectivity issues are plaguing Oregon state government agencies, according to a recent release from the state. A problem with "some network infrastructure hardware" has been causing latency issues for the state's executive, legislative and judicial branches since Friday morning, according to the alert. The problem — whatever the origin — is causing issues with phone lines, call centers and online services, according to multiple statements from various government agencies.
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Phys.org
Tracking the magnitude of several catastrophic natural events and drawing a graphic of how many episodes of each have occurred throughout history yields a result which cannot be ignored. Quite on the contrary, what the graphic reveals is a highly defined curve which luckily shows that the stronger the capacity to devastate, the less frequently the episode occurs. For example, very few earthquakes are devastating, but small earthquakes occur frequently, most of them so weak that people do not perceive them, and they are only detected by highly sensitive sensors. This information is essential when calculating any associated risks.
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Next Gov
The Federal Bureau of Investigations aims to acquire access to a “social media early alerting tool” that will help insiders proactively and reactively monitor how terrorist groups, foreign intelligence services, criminal organizations and other domestic threats use networking platforms to further their illegal efforts, according to a request for proposal amended recently.
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Governing
There’s been endless discussion on the impact of new residents in core cities, but we’re not talking enough about what’s happening in the suburbs and whether those peripheral areas are ready for the accelerating changes taking place there. Growing numbers of African-Americans, Latinos and Asians are finding new homes on the metro periphery — contributing to the diversification of American suburbia but also to its difficult problems.
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Route Fifty
Biking to work is a rare choice among commuters — just 0.6% of people heading to work do so on two wheels. But that low number is the result of significant growth in recent decades, as the population of bike commuters have grown by 60% since 2000. Part of that has been driven by reports showing that riding a bike to work is a healthier option, avoids traffic jams and cuts down on commute times, as well as being cheaper than most, if not all, other options.
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City Lab
Across the U.S., more than 460,000 households, or nearly 1.5 million people, lack a plumbed connection to drinking water or sewers. And the figures are far worse among disadvantaged groups and in certain parts of the country. Roughly 40% of Navajo families lack running water at home. Nearly three-quarters of households in an area of northern Arizona that includes five Native reservations lack connected plumbing.
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Governing
The signs on the Docking state office building in Topeka, Kansas, tell people to go away. There’s a big red notice by the front door announcing that the building is closed, while a flyer taped to an exterior window announces that the tax counter is moving as of July 19, 2016. A handful of employees still work in the building, which can’t be torn down because it provides heating and air conditioning to the Capitol complex as a whole. Otherwise, the Docking building, which sits directly across SW Harrison Street from the Kansas state Capitol itself, has been abandoned.
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