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- The twenty-oughts, a decade in review
- Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil (Part 1 of 2)
- I’m older than I’ve ever been
- Regarding the Sentencing of Dr. Christopher Thompson
- Doctoral Leaflet
- Stop framing transportation and bicycles as identity politics
- Pasadena Bicycle Master Plan Meeting October 1st
- Amateur Earthling on Hiatus
- For Love of Information
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- Saying goodbye to the Internet for about 10 days. I'm sure it will be fine without me. 6 days ago
- Is Facebook really censoring a NYTimes article about gay marriage in DC? Or is a link-shortening glitch? http://nyti.ms/crWznQ 1 week ago
- I realized today that my black bike actually makes me want to dress up when I ride it. 1 week ago
- The handyman from Beven and Brock was a sociology major, liked the play Copenhagen, and also metaphysical quantum mechanics... 1 week ago
- US to require all cars have brake-override. Great. I feel so much safer. Personally I'd prefer we just banned engines. 1 week ago
- Retirement talk seems to have gone pretty well... It was probably the tie. 1 week ago
- Laid low all day long by some stupid stomach bug. Now missing @CICLEorg party too :( 1 week ago
- Pasadena Babalon was good. A kind of Caltech/JPL/Pasadena folk art/history. We need more of that kind of thing. 1 week ago
- Made a poster for a conference I'm not going to. Working on my talk for next week. This retirement seems a little bit like employment... 1 week ago
- Made (dumpster) banana bread w/ zest from (salvaged) naranjas agrias, and flaxseed. Breakfast for before climate and media talk tomorrow. 2 weeks ago
- More updates...
Linkstream
- SEC Charges 'Prophet' With Fraud 2010/03/04
Sadly, this guy really isn't any more dishonest than most investing newsletter publishers, or actively managed mutual funds. His problem is he was too honest about his dishonesty. - The Jalalabad Fab Fi Network Continues to Grow With a Little Help from Their Friends 2010/03/03
Homebrew wireless mesh network in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, supported by people at MIT. Easy to do, but also not easy to do. This story is somewhere between Three Cups of Tea and Neuromancer. Very weird. - Should We Clone Neanderthals? 2010/03/03
Apparently the quest to resurrect our nearest hominid relatives continues! This is going to be so weird. - City Response to “Water Conservation: Sober Up San Diego, The Water Party Is Over.” 2010/03/03
Although they won't come right out and say it, it does appear that the City has no intention of proactively dealing with the possibility of long term undersupply/overdemand of water. Ironically (I think) San Diego gets about twice the reainfall of Taos, NM, where the earthships happily collect and process all the water they need for domestic living... suggesting that if you're creative enough, actually *both* sides in this SD debate turn out to be a little bit absurd. - Water Conservation: Sober up San Diego, the water party is over 2010/03/03
Grand Jury report to the city of San Diego on long-range water planning, in the face of extended drought in the SW USA, and the enormous population of people in SoCal. - The truth about risk 2010/02/26
A great interactive info-graphic and discussion for exploring various investment returns over the last century. - The American poor spread to suburbia, but we’re not ready 2010/02/25
We already have a word for a large annulus of poor people surrounding a relatively wealthy urban core, and it's not "suburbs". For instance, we don't talk about the "suburbs" of Jakarta, or Mexico City, or Cairo, or Nairobi. - Enceladus' Warm Baghdad Sulcus 2010/02/24
Thermal IR overlaid on a visible light mosaic of Baghdad Sulcus on Enceladus. Basically the whole fracture is warm and spewing geysers into space. Weird weird awesome icy place. - The Case For An Older Woman 2010/02/22
No surprise: men disproportionately prefer younger women, but it turns out women are fairly even-handed when it comes to age and dating. However, if you look at many other preferences (sex frequency, dominance/submissiveness, etc.) younger men and older women actually aren't a bad match. I certainly don't regret having had experiences with older women when I was younger. - Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors 2010/02/22
A paper in PNAS on relative climate effects of different industry sectors, which emit different relative proportions of aerosols (cooling) and GHGs (warming). Cars are "clean", and so are almost exclusively warming both short and long term. Power is "dirty", and so is less warming short term. However because the time-constants for removal of aerosols and GHGs are so different, in the long term, all these emissions are warming. Suggests cutting out car emissions first, then going for power/industry, lest we also remove our inadvertent sulfate aerosol geoengineering. Interesting way of looking at the problem, but I fear it will be latched on to by the deniers/geoengineers and misconstrued to suggest that dirty emissions are actually a good thing...
