Category: basic research

• Congratulations China!

  astronomy . astrophysics . basic research . China . engineering . Moon

  Dec 3.2020
• Marine microbes are eating plastics

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . basic research . ecological services . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . environment . marine biology . marine debris . materials science . microbiomes . microplastics . oceans . plastics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  May 25.2019
• A proposal: Challenge for the Green New Deal

  alternatives to the Green New Deal . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Chemical Society . American Meteorological Association . American Solar Energy Society . American Statistical Association . Amory Lovins . Anthropocene . basic research . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . bridge to somewhere . carbon dioxide . carbon dioxide capture . cement production . Clausius-Clapeyron equation . clear air capture of carbon dioxide . climate . climate business . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate economics . climate education . Climate Lab Book . ClimateAdam . consumption . David Archer . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . ecological disruption . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . electric vehicles . electrical energy storage . electricity . energy storage . environment . flooding . floods . food . food scarcity . geoengineering . geophysics . Glen Peters . Global Carbon Project . global warming . insurance . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local self reliance . National Center for Atmospheric Research . Our Children’s Trust . planning . policy metrics . politics . population biology . population dynamics . radiative forcing . rationality . real estate values . rhetorical statistics . science . stream flow . sustainability . SVD . the right to know . UU Ministry for Earth . UU Needham . zero carbon . ZigZag

  Apr 29.2019
• These are ethical “AI Principles” from Google, but they might as well be `technological principles’

  American Statistical Association . artificial intelligence . basic research . Bayesian . Boston Ethical Society . complex systems . computation . corporate citizenship . corporate responsibility . deep recurrent neural networks . emergent organization . ethical ideals . ethics . extended producer responsibility . friends and colleagues . Google . Google Pixel 2 . humanism . investments . machine learning . mathematics . moral leadership . natural philosophy . politics . risk . science . secularism . technology . The Demon Haunted World . the right to know . Unitarian Universalism . UU . UU Humanists

  Jun 28.2018
• The Internet was not created “because of an intelligence effort”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . basic research . IEEE . R&D . science . secrecy

  Dec 16.2017