…effective anticipatory action. An alternative to the lessening hypothesis is that increasingly elaborate technical and social systems insulate us from the adverse effects of recurrent climatic fluctuation at the cost…
…City Health Officials (NACCHO) and other national public health organizations developed the Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health (APEX/PH) to help local health departments improve their own organizations and…
…example open-ocean moorings, bottom-mounted moorings, constant depth or yo-yo’ed towed sensors, neutrally-buoyant floats, drifters, single-ship/multi-ship bases for AUV’s and ROV’s, and air-deployment. Many such approaches, already available or in development,…
…Internet Archive versions of the site, including complete Leonardo links, see https://web.archive.org/web/20170925035930/https://cesaremarchetti.org/publist.php https://web.archive.org/web/20060826050323/https://cesaremarchetti.org/gallery/index.php https://web.archive.org/web/20060826081558/https://cesaremarchetti.org/gallery/gallery_cena.php https://web.archive.org/web/20070203030255/https://www.cesaremarchetti.org/archive/electronic/leojead.pdf Human Performance Enhancement We appreciate growing collaboration with Dr. Jakob Pietschnig of the University of…
…patients, and patients with neurotic disorders. The overall prevalence of antidepressant use in certain communities quadrupled in a recent 10–year span.21 By May 1995, 10.5 million Americans were reportedly taking Prozac,…
…obscure second-order effects. One example is how the expansion of graduate education created a market for low-cost provision of labor for research and teaching, which now strongly influences the size…
…the US transport infrastructure (squiggly lines) analyzed with the logistic substitution model (smooth lines). Note the conjecture that magnetically levitated trains (maglevs) will enter market; maglevs are a way for…
…Pacific in 1 hour. I am speaking now of 100 years, but that is our time frame. The maglevs would help spread the infrastructure cost over multiple uses. As with ZEPPS, magic…
…energy sector anyway, with regard to preferred primary fuels as well as efficiency. What appear as costs in our current cost-benefit calculus for mitigating, and adapting to, the greenhouse effect…
Galatee’s The Seasons, on which Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, earns good reviews. Review: The Nature Documentary ‘Seasons’ Looks at Land Animals New York Times ‘Seasons’ takes a…