ASA Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values.

Maria made a limestone carving for our house.

Open problems in operations research.

A number of energy uses for methanol.

We spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores.

“Using a ranking of the world’s top 2.5% of economists, this article confirms that native English speakers are ranked 100 spots higher (better) than similar non-native English speakers.”

Ticketmaster pays up in $397M ticket fee settlement. I guess I had three old Ticketmaster purchases, as I have 3 coupons (for $2.25 each) and 3 vouchers for certain free events (2 tickets apiece). Good til 2020.

The Behavioral Economics Guide 2016.

We were still seeing natural gas flaring in North Dakota last year, but apparently it’s on the decline.

Ships have gotten too big. “Then there’s risk. Today’s largest container vessels can cost $200 million and carry many thousands of containers — potentially creating $1 billion in concentrated, floating risk that can only dock at a handful of the world’s biggest ports. Such boats make prime targets for cyberattacks and terrorism, suffer from a dearth of qualified personnel to operate them, and are subject to huge insurance premiums.”

Grid neutrality.

Pumped hydro storage in Montana.

Suggested reading for data analysis/science.

Differences between Apple and Google approaches to artificial intelligence.

Citigroup suing over their trademark on “thankyou”. Ugh.

Primer on Britian’s vote to leave the European Union on June 23.

Broadband internet classified as a utility.

Brazilian naked wrestling, almost assuredly not what you’re expecting.

Principles of immersive single tasking.

“CHP projects tend to be one-offs, which means taking advantage of economies of scale is difficult.” Similar problem for solar. Too many varied regulations from state to state, region to region.

Drones doing inventory.

2 nuclear plants to close in Illinois.

Soft costs make up 60% or more of the cost of installing residential solar panels.

Robots taking Chinese jobs.

Solar plants on reservoirs.

I think we should stop defending against vending machines, too. Though I’m a little worried about the talk of getting rid of NOFORN. Do we really trust the Kiwi’s enough?

Cool GIFs of word-of-mouth spread of solar power.

Human flypaper? Oh Google.

Get your wind turbines built in time!