A month since its release on July 6, 2016, Pokémon Go, the first widely known, phone-based, augmented reality game, has over 100 million downloads worldwide. During this short period, it has been both praised and blamed for its impacts on the larger world. Some players with depression and social anxiety claim the game has helped them…
The problem of lead content in U.S. drinking water extends beyond Flint. For examples: LAUSD and Los Angeles, CA see http://achieve.lausd.net/Page/3450 and http://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib08/CA01000043/Centricity/domain/135/pdf%20files/LeadAdvisory.pdf (This testing would tend to imply that all LADWP customers should have the same concerns.) Washington, DC see http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5312a6.htm Newark, NJ see http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/water-ban-30-jersey-schools-lead-fears-37520400 Sebring, OH see http://www.planetizen.com/node/83433/excessive-lead-drinking-water-spread-ohio Stockton, CA (maybe) see http://legacy.abc10.com/story/news/local/stockton/2016/01/21/erin-brockovich-weighs-recent-stockton-water-controversy/79146864/…
The press has reported a recent proposal voiced by William Shatner to import water from Washington state via an overland pipeline. The following is a link to a similar proposal dating from the 1970’s: Columbia River Water Import Proposal
A recent story in City Journal suggests that Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell accurately observes that local environmental activists in California are opposing hydraulic fracturing based more on emotion than reason. More needs to be known about the full lifespan of water related to hydraulic fracturing and its impact upon groundwater before decisions to allow…
Today, GDELT was down. A post dated 1/20/2014 obliquely explains. Update: This morning (January 20, 2014), I received the following email reply in response to my query about GDELT’s status: “Thank you for your query. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is not associated with G-DELT or any decisions about its status, however two faculty members…
Tornado Activity in the U.S. 1950-2007 from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Josh Lietz Related articles Tornado Myths Debunked
World Energy: Electricity, Oil, and Gas from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Eugene Poberezkin
Using the regression methodology of Ray Fair (“The Effect of Economic Events on Votes for President,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1978), I estimate a 51.78% Obama vote share in the Obama-Romney race.The election should be close, but Obama will probably be re-elected (note that Obama won 52.33% of the vote in 2008).