Archive for April, 2011
According to Dean Goldman, Facilities and our CUMC energy coordinator, our campus generated 58,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2010. Current plans for improvement include automated building management systems, labeling and education, and air handling and lighting improvements with new construction and renovation, which will apparently go toward a 30% CO2 reduction by [...]
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Mankiw recently points to a Brookings institution in-depth summary (a.k.a. “textbook”) of recent research in economic decision-making and psychology. NIH funding dodged this year’s bullet, unusually. I still think it’s worth considering how public funding of science exhibits market failures and externalities. Hopefully someone will eventually run the numbers and use them as ammunition for [...]
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Somewhat to my chagrin, I never actually read in detail the much-discussed study supposedly finding that open-access scholarly publication increases citation rates. Turns out that’s not quite right; online access, open or not, increases citation rates (Dept of Duh calling…). It’s hard to generalize to other fields, but at least in science, the reality is [...]
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