Fight Entropy

Cal Newport, the guy behind my favorite grad student philosophy / self-help /how-to-be-awesome website, Study Hacks , just posted a pretty i...

I'm very impressed and surprised by the coverage . And its a great story about innovations in scientific research. I didn't even re...

A friend sent me this spectacular time lapse video of the space shuttle preparation in an email. if you haven't seen it, you can watch ...

GISS was already saying that 2010 would likely be the warmest year on record a while ago due partly to the current El Niño (see, for exampl...

Want to see what hundreds of tons of aerosols being ejected into the atmosphere looks like in time lapse video? Of course you do . First com...

Zip file with Matlab code to export or import datasets to Stata. For use in conjunction with "insheet/outsheet". Importing data fr...

We've launched our new website for the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society for our PhD program at Columbia University: www.columb...

This is a pretty inspiring story of field work for children with treatable blindness in India, and neurological research that goes alongsid...

This month's NGM has a nice article on nomadic groups in India. The basic story is that there are castes of nomads (an estimated 80M p...

A lot of folks ask me what's going to happen with tropical cyclones or heat waves, etc with climate change. If you're not someone w...

One of my supervisors, John Mutter, is a seismologist and has a recent post on the CNN blog in response to the earthquake in Haiti. ...

This guy is a really cool aerial photographer that focuses on issues at the human-environment interface. His photos are a super interesting ...

Haven't gotten the chance to look through all of this, but it seems like a good project to aggregate decentralized information about ene...

This website has a huge directory of survey data sets (mostly household-level, I think) that should be useful: www.surveynetwork.org They...

I've updated my Matlab toolboxes here . Some useful additions include scripts to flexibly coarsen spatial data, area or population wei...

This is a really interesting (and easy to read) article in Physics Today (I don't know why it's there) on the impact of sound pollu...

Welcome to my blog, that may or may not work. We'll see. At worst it'll serve as an archive for interesting and useful things. For...