Fight Entropy

In Nature Climate Change: Willingness to pay and political support for a US national clean energy standard Joseph E. Aldy, Matthew J. Ko...

[This is a guest post by first year students in Columbia's Sustainable Development program] As part of their coursework for the Huma...

1) The importance of stupidity in science (via Colleen ) 2) Average annual decline in under 5 mortality in selected SSA countries since 2...

I, very regrettably, had to miss this workshop at the NBER last week. But it looks like it was terrific.  Several papers review the empiric...

Image credit: Mighty Optical Illusions ( moillusions.com ) I'd normally put something like this in the weekend links roundup, but it...

I had seen other people do this in publications, but was annoyed that I couldn't find a quick function to do it in a general case. So I...

There is capital and then there is Capital . These are some interesting recent NBER papers on the latter. Railroads and American Economic...

I just sifted through a 700-entry bibliography, and this was the coolest paper I found (2008, PNAS). It definitely wins the FE-paper-find-o...

1) Bertrand Russel's Ten Commandments of teaching 2) NYT on Dick Lindzen, cloud feedbacks, and denialists  (via  Dave Pell ) 3)  ...

Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa A M MacDonald, H C Bonsor, B É Ó Dochartaigh and R G Taylor Abstract: In Africa,...

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the first AGU Science Policy Conference in DC. One of the things I like the most about AGU eve...

So you have an extra 23 dollars and a few hours to fill? My recommendation: change your life and read this book . Steven Gaines  recommen...

Apparently there are fantastic jobs for people with doctorates in Sustainable Development  (who knew?).  New placements this year: Ram Fis...

Anna  points out that the Rockefeller Foundation (yes, that Rockefeller Foundation ) has announced its 2012 Innovation Challenges .  They p...

Instrumental variables  (IV and 2SLS) is a statistical approach commonly used in the empirical social sciences ("instrumental variables...

1) Google search -implied discounting correlates with GDP (Nature, open access) 2) GIS and Agent-Based Modeling  (via Krista ) 3)  The ...

A special Outlook issue reviewing the challenges of malaria control: Nature Outlook: Malaria (Open access) The war against the malaria p...

Answer: Apple revenue. In my line of work, it's good to cultivate a sense of scale for ridiculously large numbers.  So when I saw t...

Reading about recent cases in  the international criminal court , I realized that I don't actually know much about how the court real...

The Research Applications Laboratory at NCAR has a nice wiki-like resource list for folks interested in the interface between water, climat...