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Aug 30, 2015
I wonder how zoning works on Qo'noS
I don't often blog about land use, for obvious reasons, but here we go. I've been slowly going through Star Trek: The Animated Series , currently free for Amazon Prime members. I…
Aug 29, 2015
I didn't have time to write a short blog post, so I wrote you a long one
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow Dorothy Bishop writes in an LSE blog that length limits on papers are hurting the scientific discourse. The gist of the argument is (1) that most papers need…
Aug 28, 2015
Benefits and Costs
Yesterday's post referred to "benefit-cost analysis" which is the same as what a lot of people call "cost-benefit analysis." I chose this term for the reason anyone does anything. When I took…
Aug 27, 2015
The Cost of Hazard Mitigation
From San Francisco Chronicle, For Patrick Otellini, the sky is always about to fall. As San Francisco’s first “chief resilience officer,” Otellini inhabits a worst-case scenario world of catastrophic floods, earthquakes, tsunamis,…
Aug 26, 2015
Xerox Printers and the Philosopher's Stone
Xerox has apparently started region-encoding their toner cartridges. These are encoded so that a cartridge will only work in one part of the world. Region-encoding allows Xerox to sell the same printer…
Aug 25, 2015
Flood Control at the Ground Level
Local Howard County blogger Duane St. Clair went on the stormwater management hike. There are no natural lakes in Maryland and when Columbia was built in the 1960s, three very small streams…
Aug 24, 2015
Keeping it Real on Deep Space Voyages
The New Yorker has a story on how the Mars500 crew kept themselves occupied. The Mars500 expedition placed six people in a capsule, here on Earth, for 500 days, to see how…
Aug 23, 2015
Wir sind die Roboter
I did the bad thing and clicked the clickbait. It was for crazy movie credits, and I am sorry to everyone for increasing hit count for those guys. But one of the…
Aug 22, 2015
Thesis on Flood Resistance in Urban Areas
Rochester Institute of Technology student J.D. Harper has written a new master's thesis on how to retrofit structures in dense urban areas for greater flood resistance. Following Sandy's damage across the dense…
Aug 21, 2015
Radians Aren't So Bad
Radians are confusing. There are [latex] 2\pi[/latex] in a circle, and that's a lot harder to deal with than the 360 degrees. In fact, it's not even a whole number, and that…