November 2011

with empirical estimates of the economic impacts of air pollution damages by industry

we can break the shackles of scholastic neoclassical economics!

"the best wind farms in the world already produce power as economically as coal, gas and nuclear generators"

"it is not necessary for us to dangerously experiment with cyclists on busy roundabouts in the UK. The solutions are known."

"more than three-quarters of Australian households now have one or more spare bedrooms"

only the summary is available so far, and the graphics in that aren't properly integrated

"sales of condoms have fallen 25%, most probably because a packet of Durex costs twice as much as it used to"

"Evidence for anthropogenic surface loading as trigger mechanism of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake"

(I really should write a review of Stoczkowski's Explaining Human Origins)

"simulating the observations of multiple satellite instruments enables quantitative evaluation of clouds, humidity, and precipitation processes in diverse numerical models"

"in a place like Dubai, you have a 24-hour-long line of trucks waiting to dispose of the waste from those buildings"

books that weigh 2.5kg might as well be chained to the desk

not enough equity to pay realtor fees and other relocation costs

"border officials have lost track of a population of asylum seekers and migrants the size of Cambridge"

with English subtitling, in 150 odd 10-minute chunks

(unfortunately not freely available, except for the abstract)

this makes any Oxford college seem transparent and democratic