Random links
- The Chocolate Rx: ChocolaTao Helps the Medicine Go Down
- How to get people to take their medicine - hide it in a chocolate bar.
- Scaling Up Systems to Make Cities More Sustainable
- "'there are no linear patterns for a building’s energy behavior. The interconnectedness of the buildings were more critical than the age or height or other characteristic of a building.' Transit, building use, walkability — the broader human systems running through the buildings — had much more impact. For example, 'if we increase density by 50 percent, we could reduce energy use by 20 percent.'"
- California Bill Seeks Campus Credit for Online Study
- "Legislation will be introduced in the California Senate on Wednesday that could reshape higher education by requiring the state’s public colleges and universities to give credit for faculty-approved online courses taken by students unable to register for oversubscribed classes on campus. If it passes, as seems likely, it would be the first time that state legislators have instructed public universities to grant credit for courses that were not their own — including those taught by a private vendor, not by a college or university."
- Court of Appeal bans Bayesian probability (and Sherlock Holmes)
- "In a recent judgement the English Court of Appeal has not only rejected the Sherlock Holmes doctrine [that '..when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'], but also denied that probability can be used as an expression of uncertainty for events that have either happened or not."