Science & Math
epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...
( Category: Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Christopher Steiner

TO BUILD CUNNING WITH CODE Sandholm is an expert in game theory, the field of math concerning complex problems that include unknown variables and multiple parties with differing interests. Game ...
( Category: Computer Simulation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:James Owen Weatherall

The ideas at the heart of Farmer’s and Packard’s work were first developed by a man named Edward Lorenz. As a young boy, Lorenz thought he wanted to be a ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Page, Scott E. [Page, Scott E.]

THE DIVERSITY PREDICTION THEOREM Now that we’ve worked through an example, we’re ready to turn to the more general theorems that reveal the importance of diverse predictive models among the ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-29 | Author:Kelly Coyne

Pickling via Lacto-Fermentation Back before the advent of canning, much less freezing, folks preserved their vegetable harvest via lacto-fermentation. This process, once commonplace, survives today mostly in the form of ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Annie Leonard

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Environmental Economics March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Pearce, Fred [Pearce, Fred]

Eka Tjipta Widjaja was born Oei Ek Tjhong. He emigrated from China to Sulawesi in Indonesia with his family at the age of nine. He started in business selling cookies ...
( Category: Systems & Planning March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Paul Gilding

Let no waste go to waste Ensure that all used materials are recycled and reused, at the very least to recover the embedded energy. To force this, limit production of ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Edward Humes [Humes, Edward]

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...
( Category: Environmental March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:White, Robin & Anderson, Ray C. [White, Robin]

10 | The Circle of Influence, or Love on the Factory Floor Visiting Interface and seeing the creativity applied to establish more sustainable practices made it undeniable that the rest ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Marc Levinson [Levinson Marc]

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Hanington, Ian, Suzuki, David & Ian Hanington

Technological fixes can have serious consequences IN 1962, RACHEL CARSON galvanized a global environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. Before she wrote about the unexpected consequences of pesticides—including bioaccumulation ...
( Category: Economics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Collier, Paul

Aid and the Natural Resource Trap The second trap was the natural resource trap. Here, frankly, aid is fairly impotent. Evidently, the resource-rich countries have money coming into the government. ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell [Sowell, Thomas]

Statistical Trends One of the problems with comparisons of national output over some span of time is the arbitrary choice of the year to use as the beginning of the ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 19 James Watt’s steam engine (left) and detail of separate condenser (right) The typical power of Watt’s engines was about twenty-five horsepower (about 20 kW); the largest engines, built ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )