I watched the 8 videos of Dr. Albert A. Bartlett’s presentation on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy on the youtube, and I was way creeped out. Doc was all about trying to get people to viscerally feel what happens when you have an exponential growth rate. And he did a nice job with examples, and charts, [...]
Here is a most interesting article describing research linking autism rates in children with television watching.
The Cornell team searched for some independent measure of increased television viewing. In recent years, leading behavioral economists such as Caroline Hoxby and Steven Levitt* have used weather or geography to test assumptions about behavior. Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]
Hooray! Isaac is one year old today. Why it seems like only yesterday that Blossom had me pull over at three in the morning so she could have a contraction on the side of the road. Today was a mostly normal day. We did give Mr. J. a few new birthday toys, but he was [...]
This weekend Mimi Trish came to visit. We had a lovely time, managing the boy and eating and drinking. Standard family encounter. We went to the Stone Zoo on Saturday. The grownups looked at the animals and Isaac looked at all the people. Then on Sunday we had the main event: a real haircut for [...]
Here’s a sweet infogram that shows a simplified version of how America’s interstate system is put together. I love stuff like this.
All videos on this site were hosted with Brightcove. Alas, they are discontinuing their personal video service to focus on their commercial platform. So I am in the process of moving all my videos over to Vimeo. They limit the number of bytes you can upload per week, so it may take me a bit [...]
Well that was fun. I left work today at 2:30, about an hour after it started snowing. A mere three hours later I got home. Let’s see, my commute is 12.5 miles, so I averaged about 4 miles an hour. The best part was when my wipers got so clogged with snow they quit working, [...]
Nicholas Negroponte is doing a Good Thing. He is trying to make a really cheap laptop available to children in developing countries, so that they can get a better education. Negroponte’s project is called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the XO laptop has some really cool, easy to use features. But now Intel has [...]
I was really excited yesterday to read Nanosolar’s Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal. It seems to me that solar power is the only way out of the energy crisis; all other alternative technologies slurp up energy being used for other things. With the climate change we are already undergoing, do we really want [...]
