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The Future of Natural Gas Infrastructure in the US

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”30″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][nectar_dropcap color=”#3452ff”]T [/nectar_dropcap]he consumption of natural gas is on the rise and projected to keep rising for years to come.  In China (and elsewhere), demand has steadily surpassed supply.  In the U.S., thanks to the shale […]

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The Food Distributed Extendable Complementarity Model (Food-DECO)

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Patterns in Bicycle Ownership Among Neighboring Countries.

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The Science of Scarcity

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”30″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][nectar_dropcap color=”#3452ff”]A [/nectar_dropcap]mong the many definitions of Economics, the “Science of Scarcity” is the one that resonates with our work the most. Scarcity is the condition of having unlimited wants but only limited means, so Economics

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Clinical Trials as Both Science and Art

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”30″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][nectar_dropcap color=”#3452ff”]A[/nectar_dropcap]s part of our ongoing clinical trials research, the MIT Collaborative gathered in Boston this week to meet with Dr. Gil Gonzalez, a top neuroradiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Listening to Dr. Gonzalez, I couldn’t

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The golden age of implementation

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Addressing gaps and impediments of the clinical trials system

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