Ransom Stephens's Blog, page 8
May 22, 2013
Global warming/climate change: an easy calculation
By solving a 10th grade science homework problem you can decide for yourself whether or not human beings are causing global warming/climate change by burning fossil fuels.
May 18, 2013
Measuring the transition to disaster
Properties of the calm before a storm can be measured and used to predict the transition from tranquility to disaster.
April 24, 2013
Resolving problems in the infrared
Our eyes can only detect optical wavelengths of light, but infrared vision differs in more ways than wavelength.
Measure of holiday calories – the thermodynamic diet
And you thought T&M World was above proposing a diet for the holidaze!
Can electronic health records save your world?
Are electronic healthcare records another inane federal boondoggle or are they a healthcare cure-all? The answer has more to do with Netflix than you might think.
Measuring and generating creativity
The value of creativity far outweighs any other trait. Measures of creativity are elusive but the four key ingredients
Noise in the time dimension: the strange case of flicker
Flicker shows up in electric circuits, music, stars, brain waves, and the stock market and seems to indicate a significant relationship between distant events—but no one knows what it is.
Getting lucky at trade shows (DesignCon special!)
Do you go for sales leads? Networking? Solutions to your problems? Swag? Free beer? No, you’re there to get lucky, here’s how.
In search of gravity waves
We see electromagnetic waves, why not gravity waves?
Measuring gravitational radiation
Gravitational radiation must exist, but through a dozen years of searching, they have yet to be seen…
