China Makes Deal for Two Nuclear Plants. The French state-run company Areva has unexpectedly agreed to a $5 billion deal to build two nuclear power plants in China. By REUTERS. [NYT > Business]
You can bet on it. If you’ve been following the literature on the predictive power of election betting markets, you may have seen this graph, from
Harvard to name first female president The appointment of a new president will be announced on Sunday after a special meeting of the university's board of overseers, the alumni governing body that must approve the selection, according to a university official with knowledge of the selection process. Ms Faust, a historian who specialises in the civil war and the US…
Yahoo Pipes - What It Means for Google Earth/Maps - See Earthify. Yesterday Yahoo released a new beta product called Yahoo Pipes. This tool has already been called "...a milestone in the history of the Internet" by visionary Tim O'Reilly. The full concept may be a little tricky to grasp if you are not a technologist, but in a nutshell…
Wetter cities, drier (but richer) rural areas. John Quiggin has a terrific CEDA report out today. From the executive summary: Replacing city water restrictions with higher prices in the long term will encourage people to invest in water-saving technologies, find other ways to use less water, and encourage the development of new supply options such as recycling. The report also…
Let's give education a fair and balanced assessment. Theage.com.au - Sat Feb 10, 08:39 pm GMT [News4Sites - Australia Education]
PM to have his way on education. Theage.com.au - Fri Feb 9, 04:30 pm GMT [News4Sites - Australia Education]
Howard E. Gardner '65 submitted this op-ed on January 29, 2007. He appended Faust's name and the final paragraph after today's news reporting. With the nomination of Drew Gilpin Faust as the 28th president of Harvard University, the lengthy, largely secretive process has come to at an end. Whatever one thought of the Summers era and its ending, those who…
Shape2Earth - GIS Data to Google Earth. One of the more basic outputs of GIS applications is a file type called a shapefile. A shapefile is a geospatial vector data format developed and popularized by GIS software maker ESRI, but used by other GIS software makers as well. For example, it's possible to use free GIS applications like MapWindow to…