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Jun 1, 2016

Cell Phones Still Don't Cause Cancer

I was recently explaining to someone that cell phones do not cause cancer. Of course, then this study comes out last week saying otherwise. There's a number of flaws with this study,…

May 31, 2016

Things That Make You Go Hmm, Brookings Edition

Brookings questions the value of ban the box legislation and includes this gem: [E]mployers might prefer applicants with a college degree not because of what one learns in college but because earning…

May 31, 2016

Maslow and Buddhism

I've been taking Robert Wright's Cousera course, "Buddhism and Modern Psychology," mostly because I didn't know anything about either. As Coursera is great fodder for blog content, here's my essay response to…

May 29, 2016

Flood Insurance Profits? Maybe Not

NPR has made a lot out of a report that insurance companies made $400 million in profit from flood insurance. This does not seem likely. When I wrote my text on flood…

May 23, 2016

It's on the Syllabus

This morning, Thomas Leeper writes in his blog about the redundancy of the syllabus and how so many young professors are forced to reinvent the wheel every term: That nearly all departments…

May 16, 2016

I completed the IoT Specialization on Coursera

I completed the Internet of Things specialization from the University of California, Irvine, through Coursera. I got my certificate, screen shotted above, tonight. Learn more about my capstone project, a high-altitude balloon…

May 15, 2016

Carme Test Plan

This week in the Coursera IoT Capstone Course, we had to complete a test plan document. The plan had to include both component and integration testing. I have posted the test plan…

May 11, 2016

The Private Flood Insurance Bill

The House of Representatives just passed a bill allowing private insurance to meet the flood insurance requirement for homeowners. In most cases, if you have a federally-backed mortgage, and you are on…

May 8, 2016

Carme Design Alternatives

This week in the Coursera IoT Capstone Course, we had to complete a design document. However, unlike a true design document, the requirements specified a list of options for potential design, along…

May 6, 2016

My Dissertation

With this week's announcement, I realized I had never posted my dissertation online. And I post everything online. So here, you can now download my dissertation here.