Archive for March, 2010

Mar 21 2010

California Dreaming Climate Style-Daydreams of Disaster

AB 32 is the four year old California legislation that requires deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and Valero Energy of Texas are sponsoring an initiative to place a measure on the November ballot which would suspend the plan until California unemployment falls to 5.5 % a [...]

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Mar 14 2010

War and Remembrance: If I Should Die In A Combat Zone

Published by admin under Vietnam War

The piece of doggrel in the title ends “box me up and send me home, ” and was a popular ditty among American soldiers in Vietnam. On March 14 HBO begins showing the ten part miniseries, Pacific, which is a retelling of World War II in the Pacific Theater. It follows by a couple of [...]

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Mar 07 2010

Compressed Sensing and Sparsity, The Mathematical Quest of Dr. Emmanuel Candes

I subscribe to Wired Magazine, but am sometimes frustrated by the nature of its content which can drift off into the nonsensical. Just when I am ready to give up on the publication, it prints something that renews my interest. The March 2010 issue has an article by Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University [...]

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