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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

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Minerva, which is participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 Startup Battlefield, says that it can extract one metric ton of lithium using just 30,000 gallons of water, and it can do it in three days. By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF. Like it’s literally gold, and lithium is one of them.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet. and the game metric of scoring makes for a fairly compelling game. Why would they want to do that?

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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ScratchR's intentional avoidance of popularity as a metric of success may foster more participation in small community groups, like galleries, that can give satisfaction in loves, comments, and remixes, if not in huge view counts.