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James Howard

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    Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis is Out Now!

    June 13, 2017 8:48 AM James Howard

    My new book Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R came out today from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. This book is a long-standing project of

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  • The Bumblebees are Back, and They’re Bad!

    May 11, 2017 8:51 PM James Howard

    The virtual bumblebees are now available for download under an MIT license. The bees were kinda/sorta always available, but I have clarified the licensing. To

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  • Slides from NerdNite Baltimore 8

    April 22, 2017 8:35 PM James Howard

    I’ve posted the slides from my talk at NerdNite. Unfortunately, there’s no video or audio.

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  • Watch my talk at the 2016 Mars Society Convention

    October 30, 2016 10:05 PM James Howard

    I haven’t been posting much lately, because I have been super busy with just about everything. But, the Mars Society has posted videos from the

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  • Learn How to Manage a Basement Flood

    September 23, 2016 9:07 PM James Howard

    Geoff Williams writes in the U.S. News and World Report about how to manage a basement flood and in this article, I talk about insurance,

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The Problem with Offering Flood Insurance Subsidies

July 27, 2017 1:01 PM James Howard

Flood insurance is always on point. I had a letter in The

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The Flush Tax Pays Off

July 26, 2017 6:52 AM James Howard

I’ve written a couple of posts about protecting the Chesapeake Bay. Actually,

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India Adds Solar to its Trains

July 24, 2017 7:07 AM James Howard

Last year, Chase asked me about solar-powered trains, and we did the

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Ensuring Water Security

July 21, 2017 7:28 AM James Howard

Water security is a complex issue with a lot of independently moving

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Risks from Fracking

July 19, 2017 7:01 AM James Howard

Fracking, properly, hydraulic fracturing, has a number of tradeoffs. From a purely

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