Now that’s tight coupling

An article in the Sunday New York Times details how a few school districts are now using SchoolStat, a data-collection system modeled after the Compstat system famously implemented by William Bratton in New York in the mid-1990s, and now used in police departments around the country. The SchoolStat system allows district leaders to collect data [...]

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Amazing Robot Asimo

new version amazing robot asimo

Credit attention to these clips to Robosingularity, a really cool blog on robots, nanotechnology, etc., that I check in with on occasion. The movement skills on Honda’s robot Asimo, above is amazing - the degree to which the engineers have refined the ‘naturalness’ of the robot’s movements is a marvel. Certainly [...]

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James Watson’s Amazing Findings

I’m a bit behind the news because I’m taking one of my doctoral specialization exams this Friday…so I’m knee deep in last minute panic reading. As a result, I only noticed this story on my BBC news feed tonight, announced under the headline “US Scientist Blocked in Race Row.” I didn’t realize the scientist in [...]

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Global Warming 3a: Wait a minute…

In my last post I discussed briefly John Tierney’s column on global warming which appeared in this morning’s edition of the New York Times. After rereading it the article this afternoon, however, I think I was too easy on it. I just wonder how anyone who’s a serious journalist can write a column like this, [...]

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Global Warming 3: The Private Construction of GW

Two articles to consider, one a month old and one more recent.
(1) An article in Scientific American from about a month ago reports that private insurers have started to label certain regions as being at increased risk due to environmental disturbance and disaster caused by global warming. Thus, homeowners and property owners in Florida and [...]

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