Industrial Greengineering |
Musings, thoughts, and interesting tidbits at the intersection of industrial engineering and sustainability. I'm an Industrial Engineering PhD student focusing on urban sustainability. Disclaimer: I'm also a tech/gadget geek, and I'm not very good at staying on topic. |
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"KEVIN KELLY [6.29.08] There’s a dawning sense that extremely large databases of information, starting in the petabyte level, could change how we learn things. The traditional way of doing science…"
The Reality Club: THE END OF
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"I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was “corrupting my soul.” It’s a been a year now since I “surfed the…"
back online after a year without the internet http://bit.ly/100YOP4
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"So it turns out the United States is not, in fact, the educational wasteland tech industry lobbyists would have you think. Companies like Microsoft often claim that America is suffering from an…"
The Myth of America’s Tech Talent Shortage http://bit.ly/14HXD9Z
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"The surprising story of how our data got us made as parents, before we’d actually told anyone we were going to be parents The first one slid through the mail slot and onto the floor. My wife brought…"
If It Wasn’t the Pregnancy Tests, Why *Did* Baby Catalogs Start Arriving at Our House? http://bit.ly/123hhbU
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"Approximately one month ago, I fell into a rabbit hole – the rabbit hole better known as Writing My Dissertation. I’d been working toward that point for five years and counting, through…"
Why grad schools should require students to blog http://bit.ly/13HeF7F
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"In data science work you often run into cryptic sentences like the following: Age adjusted death rates per 10,000 person years across incremental thirds of muscular strength were 38.9, 25.9, and 26.6…"
Win-Vector Blog http://bit.ly/17kYR9U
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"On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk, who had recently invented the polio vaccine, appeared on the television news show “See It Now” to discuss its impact on American society. Before the…"
Can We Patent Life? http://bit.ly/14M8yyP
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"More data is being created from more places today than ever before. Tweets, clicks, YouTube videos, retailer loyalty cards, cell phones, even sensors on buildings are producing tons of data daily.…"
The Promise of Big Data for Cities http://bit.ly/YRFbCA
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"November 11th. 2011, 12:14am The Berlin Study In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descended on the Universität der Künste, a historic arts academy in the heart of West Berlin.…"
Study Hacks http://bit.ly/YO6XQd
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"I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my…"
The Professors’ Big Stage http://bit.ly/XTQoqd
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Via Ow.ly
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Dr. Gary Settles, a world-reknown expert in schlieren photography, shows here a montage of some of his lab’s results, including shockwaves from musical instruments
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Celebrating 25 years of the GIF with Lacey Micallef
Too much junk food will certainly rot your teeth. Or if you’re Lacey “lulinternet”...
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Bryan Nash Gill - Woodcuts, 2005-2011
Gill uses recycled lumber, covers it in ink and washi paper, and with his fingers and...
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Food in the U.S. has become much, much cheaper.
For more graphics and information on our spending on groceries, go here.
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Ad-based models continue to erode, and the online subscription programs of many commercial publishers have yet to take off. For publishing to have a...
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more npr pals
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From medicalxpress:
Scientists studying the Chinese mindfulness...
