Technology

…about Bjorn Lomberg’s new book.  I gotta read it–I’m sure he’ll say things like this: One of the top climate change economists has modelled – and several papers that came out a couple of weeks ago essentially point out – that climate change will probably mean fewer deaths, not more deaths. It is estimated that Read more

…Ed Sutt reinvented the nail.  It’s going to save the insurance companies billion$. Tip from the Instapundit, who got it from the Volokh Conspiracy. Read more

The city fathers in Aspen, Colorado, have embarked on a project to fight global warming by making the city carbon-neutral. Unless they can control the variable solar output, slow rising energy use in India and China, get their celebrity visitors to arrive on horseback rather than LearJet, and convince all the skiers to stop passing Read more

It’s no surprise that the petroleum industry is Calfornia’s largest polluter–oil is messy.  But guess who’s number two? "They’re not green at all except when they’re forced to be." Tip from the Drudge Report. Read more

Check out this video based on FAA air traffic control data–it’s one of the neatest data visualizations I’ve ever seen.  Midway, when the graphics get all blobby, is about the best representation of what electron orbits at the quantum level might look like. Tip from Bill Whittle; this little gem is buried midway in his Read more

Tiresome fonts. And read the comments!  Best one so far: "Comic Sans walks into a bar only to be told ‘We don’t serve your type here…’" Tip from the Geek Press. Read more

Check out this high-tech blackboard. Tip from the Geek Press. Read more

Confronted with an economic (that is, money-saving) way to reduce carbon emissions (fluorescent light bulbs), the UK Greenpeace Brain Trust immediately concludes there oughta be a law to compel Brits to save money.  An energy tax on incandescent light bulbs, maybe.  But a prohibition?  Here come the Light Bulb Commissars! You really must read the Read more

The New York Public Library has a dazzling exhibit of maps, both cartographic and conceptual.  Check it out. Tip from ABC News online. Read more

Today the UPS man dropped off my newest toy, Keikki Ruskeepää’s hefty guide, Mathematica Navigator, 2/e. Not only is it chock full of useful, well-explained examples [Bayesian statistics and MCMC algorithms in Chapter 27, oh joy!], but it’s great reading. Chapter 1 reels you in from the start: In 1903 at a meeting of the Read more