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Dec 11, 2015
Here's another article on the environmental justice effects of climate change. From right here in Maryland, researchers used survey data to show that vulnerable populations believe their health is at risk from…
Dec 10, 2015
The owner of an auto repair shop, whose shop sits on the Mill Creek floodplain in Delaware, has been flooded 32 times since 1989. Following completion of a flood abatement project by…
Dec 9, 2015
I gave my talk tonight on numerical analysis in R and the talk is already up on YouTube. ::youtube{video="BmH9iZ-w4PQ"} There's an interesting set of questions at the end about resources for introducing…
Dec 8, 2015
Over the weekend, I estimated the economic costs of (only) the deaths attributed to gun related violence in the United States up to Friday. Now we should figure out what to do…
Dec 7, 2015
This evening, I am at the Maryland Daily Record's banquet for their 2015 Leading Women Awards. I am here to see Nina Basu honored: ::embed{href="http://thedailyrecord.com/leading-women/nina-basu/"} Because she's awesome.
Dec 5, 2015
I keep hearing about the costs of gun violence in the United States. But given my experience with benefit-cost analysis, I think about actual costs. I want to know what is the…
Dec 4, 2015
There's a great article on PLOS ONE about using pigeons for cancer detection. The short version is that scientist successfully trained pigeons to detect cancer through visual inspection of medical imagery. But…
Dec 2, 2015
Aeon has a fascinating essay on the history of the English language, and how the language itself evolved around a series of invaders. The point of the article is to understand why…
Dec 1, 2015
A week from tonight, I'll be talking to Statistical Programming DC about performing numerical analysis in R. R has become the go-to environment to support data science and statistical applications across many…
Nov 30, 2015
Tonight is my last night of teaching public finance for the semester.[^lastnight] Over the next two weeks or so, my students are working on a group paper analyzing options for alleviating food…
Nov 29, 2015
Science has a good article on mathematics in industry across the Pacific Rim. The article basically says a lot of mathematicians in manufacturing intense areas are leaving academia (temporarily or permanently) to…