Lynne Kiesling I’m not one to see everything through the lens of gender, but this is pretty cool: for the first time in its nine-year history, girls have won all of the grand prizes at the Siemens math and science competition: Siemens Foundation President James Whaley says the percentage of girls entering the competition has …
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Michael Giberson Last Friday, the State of Alaska received five proposals in response to a Alaska Gasline Inducement Act deadline to build a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope into Canadian and American markets. The applicants are Alaska Gasline Port Authority, AEnergia LLC, TransCanada, Sinopec ZPEB and Alaska Natural Gasline Development Authority. If the …
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Michael Giberson The RGGI auction design final report released in October 2007, which contains the proposed auction design for the sale of RGGI CO2 permits, overall presents a thorough examination of the market design problem and a well-thought out justification for their final design proposal. There is, however, one serious flaw that threatens the efficiency …
Michael Giberson Francisco Torralba, on his EconWeekly blog, writes on Hubs, spokes and flight delays and How to eliminate flight delays, now. Torralba: The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is bent on fixing flight delays. To that end, the agency proposes to cap traffic at JFK…. Mandatory caps can get the job done, but we …
Michael Giberson David Porter and Vernon Smith have put together an assessment of the FCC’s 12 years of experience with spectrum auction design, forthcoming in the Journal of Law Economics and Policy. From the introduction: Recent policy discussions regarding broadband Internet access have revived debates about various methods for allocating electromagnetic spectrum rights and the …
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Lynne Kiesling A company called Skyonic is using sodium hydroxide to turn carbon dioxide into baking soda, with chlorine and hydrogen as by-products; the process captures 90 percent of the carbon dioxide coming out of smoke stacks and mixes it with sodium hydroxide to make sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda. The energy required for the …
Michael Giberson In his book, Plight of the Fortune Tellers, Riccardo Rebonato describes how an invitation to bet can be used to separate cheap talk from truly held beliefs (and, in the process, ruin an otherwise engaging dinner conversation). In the early to mid 1990s in the United Kingdom and in other European countries a …
Lynne Kiesling From New Zealand, a newly-discovered bacterium that lives at high temperatures and eats methane. Is it possible to add them to landfills without creating invasive species problems? Maybe. Still, quite interesting. Thanks to Slashdot for the link.
Lynne Kiesling Here’s an interesting development: one of my favorite bands, Red Hot Chili Peppers, are suing Showtime for calling their new show starring David Duchovny “Californication”: “Californication is the signature CD, video and song of the band’s career, and for some TV show to come along and steal our identity is not right,” the …
Lynne Kiesling Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I have a LOT for which to be grateful this year, and I won’t bore you with the details. But I will leave you with a cautionary note from Reason.tv’s interview with chef Anthony Bourdain entitled “Better Enjoy Your Foie Gras Now”. Here in Chicago we cannot buy …
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