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...wanted to,” senior Matt Kramer said. “We couldn’t close the game when we were up.” Princeton gradually eased its way back into the contest and took the lead in the eighth inning when Micah Kaplan plated Spencer Lucian with an RBI single. Harvard put two men on with one out in the ninth, but couldn’t find a way onto the scoreboard.“Our offense never really came alive,” Vance said. “The second game they out-played...
InnoCentive was looking to expand beyond industrial research into philanthropy; Bent needed a better light for the developing world. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York venture capital firm Spencer Trask - launched over a century ago by the man who helped finance Thomas Edison's first light bulb - Bent put up a challenge on InnoCentive's network to improve on his BOGO light. It was answered in short order by a engineer in New Zealand named Russell McMahon, who came up with a new design that makes better use of both the solar battery and the LEDs...
...says: "We don't have an energy crisis; we have an imagination crisis." Solving global warming will require changes in the way we live and use energy, but even more vital are technological leaps in clean technology that must be every bit as revolutionary as Edison's incandescent bulb. Spencer Trask and the Rockefeller Foundation have inundated InnoCentive with an array of challenges in clean tech - including a call for a new kind of electricity-free light bulb that would make Edison's invention obsolete. "We want the kind of challenges that will make a difference in the world," says...
...less than 1% of the population. They cannot be everywhere--or even most places. So the vast majority of rescues are done by regular people. The problem is, regular people have almost never been intelligently engaged in emergency planning--until, perhaps, now. "It's a brilliant move," says Wendy Spencer, head of Florida's volunteerism commission. "Others will pay attention. You'll have mayors, emergency managers saying, 'Wow, if it's that important to the governor, maybe we need to look at this...
...it’s helped us out a lot putting points on the board,” Scholl said. “I’d say the young guys on defense and the young attackers are all going to have breakout years.”Transfer and sophomore Spencer Gantsoudes, alongside freshmen Francis Ellis and Andrew Parchman will also get in on the action, with Parchman aiding junior Nick Smith with faceoff duties. “I think that our team is really unique in that we are both really young—me being the oldest defender that?...