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Nuclear experts clean radioactive site with Cillit Bang - 1 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...ive-site-with-Cillit-Bang.html NRG COTS spin-in
shared by Nicholas Lan on 10 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 10 Dec 09
     
    Use of COTS products for low-cost nuclear reprocessing plant decommissioning. I suggest a brainstorming session for potential spin-in technologies involving walking around digros.
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Being a walking hot-spot | Geek Gestalt - CNET News - 0 views

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shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 30 Jun 09
     
    marek's new gadget after the ha-wi-fi t-shirt
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Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations | Video on TED.com - 3 views

www.ted.com/...f_cities_and_corporations.html TED cities companies growth complex_systems complex_networks
shared by Luís F. Simões on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.
  • For those who felt that Geoffrey glossed over the implications for cities and companies, the following article in the New York Times did a respectable job of drawing conclusions from Dr. West's paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html
  • dejanpetkow on 27 Oct 11
     
    Tokyo has a very large population and one of the smallest crime rates in the world, in fact Tokyo is known to be the safest big city in the world (w.r.t. crime). It is hard to believe that the crime rate in L.A. is in the same order of magnitude.
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Critique of 'Debunking the climate hiatus', by Rajaratnam, Romano, Tsiang, and Diffenba... - 8 views

radfordneal.wordpress.com/...-romano-tsiang-and-diffenbaugh critique climate
shared by Dario Izzo on 13 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 13 Jan 16
     
    Hilarious critique to a quite important paper from Stanford trying to push the agenda of global warming .... "You might therefore be surprised that, as I will discuss below, this paper is completely wrong. Nothing in it is correct. It fails in every imaginable respect."
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  • Paul N on 15 Jan 16
     
    To quote Francisco "If at first you don't succeed, use another statistical test" A wiser man shall never walk the earth
  • LeopoldS on 15 Jan 16
     
    why is this just put on a blog and not published properly?
  • Paul N on 20 Jan 16
     
    If you read the comments it's because the guy doesn't want to put in the effort. Also because I suspect the politics behind climate science favor only a particular kind of result.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Jan 16
  • LeopoldS on 21 Jan 16
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 28 Jan 16
     
    just a footnote here, that climate warming aspect is not derived by an agenda of presenting the world with evil. If one looks at big journals with high outreach, it is not uncommon to find articles promoting climate warming as something not bringing the doom that extremists are promoting with marketing strategies. Here is a recent article in Science: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26612836 Science's role is to look at the phenomenon and notice what is observed. And here is one saying that the acidification of the ocean due to increase of CO2 (observed phenomenon) is not advancing destructively for coccolithophores (a key type of plankton that builds its shell out of carbonates), as we were expecting, but rather fertilises them! Good news in principle! It could be as well argued from the more sceptics with high "doubting-inertia" that 'It could be because CO2 is not rising in the first place'', but one must not forget that one can doubt the global increase in T with statistical analyses, because it is a complex variable, but at least not the CO2 increase compared to preindustrial levels. in either case : case 1: agenda for 'the world is warming' => - Put random big energy company here- sells renewable energies case 2: agenda for 'the world is fine' => - Put random big energy company here - sells oil as usual The fact that in both cases someone is going to win profits, does not correllate (still not an adequate statistical test found for it?) with the fact that the science needs to be more and more scrutinised. The blog of the Statistics Professor in Univ.Toronto looks interesting approach (I have not understood all the details) and the paper above is from JPL authors, among others.
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