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Chapter members honor our nursing profession in countless
The original Alpha Kappa Chapter was chartered on January
15, 1966, at the University of Colorado School of Nursing. In
January 1982, the chapter was re-chartered as the Alpha Kappa
Chapter-at-Large with the addition of Loretto Heights Nursing,
housed at Regis University since 1989. We celebrated
our chapter's 40th anniversary in 2006 with a gala event
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Licorize as a low effort GTD tool
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Licorize is not associated in any form with Mr. David Allen or its company, http://www.davidco.com. When referring to the GTD book, we will refer to Piatkus edition 2009.
Here we consider Licorize as a tool which can help in using the Getting Things Done methodology. We also briefly introduce the methodology.
Getting Things Done, also abbreviated as GTD, is a popular time management productivity method created by David Allen. It is presented in this book, though I find Mr. Allen's presentations through video or podcast to be more accessible for a first approach. See for example this "Do lecture":
http://www.thedolectures.com/speakers/speakers-2010/david-allen .
Personally I am quite skeptical of any "personal coaching" ideology, but Mr. Allen seems relaxed enough not to be in danger of generating "cults" or delusions about self training that may actually be more damaging than useful. See this old Wired biographical article about him.
Licorize is not just a GTD tool: it is basically an idea collector that is compatible with several GTD practices. Our hope is that Licorize supports a quick & short cycle of "collect – organize in actions" thanks to its integration with the web worker' online activity without loosing too much information even when collecting is a quick action.
GTD's methodology is a way to make an agreement with oneself, about managing "ideas overload" – not to be confused with information overload: the overload GTD wants to relieve is internal, self generated, not due to external sources.
I now try to summarize how one proceeds when following GTD (this is a very personal interpretation with no pretence of neither correctness nor completeness).
My summary of GTD
Everything that comes to your mind about things to be done, thought, plans etc. must be written down ASAP somewhere, actually in the same specific place if possible: this place is the bucket (more than one bucket is possible, but let's stick to the basics). Then each item in the bucket must somehow be processed. You must find some quiet moment in which to process the bucket's content – it is not sufficient to collect. List making is not by itself a way to have things under control. Processing means that you have to go mercilessly through each item in the bucket and decide whether it can be made actionable, i.e. it can be restated / transformed in something clear that can be done, or not. If not, it is not relevant, at least not yet. If it is actionable, it may be you doing it or somebody else, and you may be doing it now or at a fixed future moment. That's the normal activity, to which a great help is to ritualize a moment "the weekly review" where all items, from the basket and including all those already actionable and planned are reviewed. This ritualized check is a way to keep a "completely emptied my mind" standard.
GTD's flow and Licorize
We will now follow closely GTD's flow (as per the GTD workflow diagram – page 36 of the GTD book) and see how Licorize can help at each step.
In basket
While true that the main problem is your internal psychic stress, it is true that meeting many many external information sources and not having a quick way to "put it in the bucket" will contribute to such psychic stress.
Licorize facilitates putting everything that you are taking a mental note of in the basket. That is why we expanded Licorize so that with it you can collect not only bookmarks but all sorts of information, also much that is presented in other means (Tweets, RSS, DMs, e-mail, Evernote, DropBox etc.). This also facilitates keeping the set of baskets to a minimal number – possibly one.
Clearly having Licorize always with you is linked to availability on mobile devices – see these FAQ's 1 2, and different mobile clients are already in beta.
What is it?
The fact that Licorize asks you to do a minimal classification of any information entered through types, even if you ignore tagging, is just in line with the GTD idea of asking of any incoming information: "what is this?".
The first classification – idea, to-do, note, reminder, plain bookmark etc. is really quick but helpful.
Is it actionable?
Of the various possible classification of "in", GTD considers asking "is it actionable" the most important one. This because "in" information tends to be vague, and as long as it remains vague, unsolvable and burdening.
Notice that both possible answers to this question, yes and no, require some further action. In this perspective, you should try to avoid adding unclassified strips in Licorize. Anyway now the weekly review in Licorize warns you about such entries.
Not actionable
If something is not actionable, probably the best idea is to simply trash it.
GTD also offers the possibility to classify it as a "Someday / Maybe" entry, and Licorize supports just this.
if you tag any strip with the special tag "somedayMaybe", this will disappear. It will not be in your timeline, nor in your projects and neither in your search results.
But if you filter by the tag "somedayMaybe", all those strips will be listed and it will be possible there to transform them into actionable items.
Yes: What is the next action
So if the information collected is "actionable", you should somehow transform it so that it is very clear what is the action to be taken. Licorize' ease of type transformation, and the fact that information is preserved when transforming makes it a help also in this phase.
In our opinion information transformation is at the core of GTD, and also of Licorize: it is what makes it a practical (and not simplistic) solution in the long run – we hope.
Also useful the fact that information collected with a client, or say sent as a "remind me later" from a client to Licorize can then easily be edited and transformed.
Single step actions: next actions
The actions to be taken "generated" from the incoming item may be single, quick, personal, or not: GTD considers various cases.
2 minutes: do it
If something is really quick, it is probably more practical to do it immediately than dragging it around.
Delegate it
Of course it may be that it is not you the one that has to take action; Licorize is a powerful tool for distributing actios in teams and projects, strip-by-strip, via bulk actions, or even using a Kanban-like drag-and-drop interface.
Defer it
To-do items in Licorize may be deferred to a date.
Multi step actions: projects
At page 37 of the GTD book some example projects are listed:
R&D joint-venture video project
August vacation
Publish book
All these are multi-step projects, that may involve several people, each with different set of actions. All this is perfectly supported by Licorize projects.
More GTD inspired considerations
"No more daily to-do lists"
In the GTD book Allen writes under "No more daily to-do lists":
daily to-do lists… such lists don't work, for two reasons: … constant new input and shifting tactical priorities reconfigure daily work so consistently … trying to keep a list that must be rewritten on another day if items don't get done, is demoralizing and a waste of time.
(Chapter 2, page 40)
I think many will identify in this kind of frustrated attempts. The point is having the actionable items list, and not trying to over-formalize work generating more wasted time and frustration. This is why adding Licorize to-do management just as an addition to an activity that you already do – surfing – could be the simplest approach.
The weekly review
You need to be able to review the whole picture of your life and work at appropriate intervals and appropriate levels
(GTD book, Review section, page 45)
A consistent use of reviewing is key for keeping a focused set of next actions and priorities. GTD suggest to review frequently, actually weekly. Licorize has a specific section for reviewing strips.
Licorize's users most frequent misunderstanding of the weekly review is to consider it as an occasion to "put things in the bucket", but the point of it is is not to add entries, but to review every item in the bucket. All your items should already be in the bucket – and hopefully Licorize's integrations should have facilitated that.
In order to make the weekly review even more attractive, we used some gamification techniques: see here.
Out of GTD: the imperfections of human nature
A large number of GTD practitioners do not apply GTD by the book. Instead, they take what they found as the most useful parts of the GTD system and adopt it to suit their own needs. Licorize's flexibility let's you do this. For example, consider this simplified view of GTD: http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/practicing-simplified-gtd-335269.php . It is definitively sustainable when using Licorize.
We also added some "non standard" features to Licorize weekly reviews: a button "refill review" which adds all open todos and all readitlater and all books of last seven days. Also now at the end of the weekly review you review also all the open projects.
But… do you use it?
Do I use GTD? Well, I use Licorize, I use all the tools that it provides for GTD, I take note ASAP of whatever comes to my mind, I do a weekly review and try to turn things into actionable items. For both the "taking note quickly" and the transformation phase, I do find Licorize to be a naturally useful tool. Licorize is a fantastic tool to empty your head – the first productivity idea at the core of GTD.
In terms of personal management, I found that Seth Godin's ideas about "shipping and quieting the Lizard brain" also have had quite an impact on the way I handle my production habits – and they combine nicely with my personal version of GTD.
See here Godin in action.
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I've reviewed our amazing condo separately, so I'll reserve this space just for the resort itself. We had very little issues with Hanalei Bay Resort. Granted, they are still rebuilding the restaurant and bar from a previous fire, but we planned to visit bars and restaurants on the island itself anyway. Plus our condo had a great kitchen that allowed for meals and drinks to be consumed in privacy. The pool was awesome and well maintained. The only downfall I had with this resort is the fact that you have to park in the main lot and then hike/walk to your unit. There is an option to call the front desk and have a golf cart brought to you, but we never wanted to hassle with that. Depending upon where your condo is, the walk/hike might not be that bad. Also, I wouldn't recommend this resort for honeymooners. There are a lot of families with small children. Takes away from the romance a little bit. Overall, the resort was everything we were looking for.
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Translation of cereal in Spanish:
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- The inclusion rates of finely ground feed should be kept to a minimum (for example, ground cereals, maize gluten).
- The higher inflation levels as observed in November were largely attributed to rising food prices especially mealie meal, maize grain, cereals and cereal products, meat, fish and kapenta.
- Prepared from germinated and sprouted grain and cereals, their food is rich in various nutrients, vitamins and enzymes and also helps in curing constipation, acidity, piles and skin diseases.
- Maize silage and whole crop cereals (eg triticale) are two such alternative forages.
- Agriculture includes livestock-rearing, viticulture, and crops such as cereals, sugar beet, and potatoes.
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Hong Kong-based attorneys often work in tandem with our attorneys in Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, the United States and Europe to serve our clients in Asia, handling matters in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, among others.
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There are three opportunities to enter the Equinox events: online registration through September 13, onsite/online registration at early bib pickup on September 15-16, and onsite/online registration at the UAF Patty Center on race morning.
Online registration opens early in the calendar year and continues through 5:00PM on the Tuesday prior to the Equinox events. Early discounted registration fees are available. Entry fees increase to the standard fee one month prior to race day. When registering for the relay, a single person registers the entire team and pays a single fee. It is up to the person who registers the team (the "team captain") to ensure that the names, genders and dates of birth for all three team members are entered into the registration data.
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The longest serving female inmate in the United States has been released from prison.
Betty Smithey has spent the past 49 years – or two-thirds of her life – behind bars after she was convicted of murdering a toddler in 1963, the Arizona Republic reported.
The 69-year-old was granted parole by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency on Monday, ABC News reported.
According to Fox News, Smithey walked out of the Perryville State Prison later that day with the aid of a cane.
"It's wonderful driving down the road and not seeing any barbed wire," Smithey was quoted as saying.
"I am lucky, so very lucky.
"Like I told the (parole) board, I know it's going to be a big adjustment, but I'll take it and I'll make good."
USA Today said members of the parole board voted 4-1 to discharge Smithey from prison and free her from community supervision, noting that she was no longer the "troubled woman" who murdered 15-month-old Sandy Gerberick on New Year's Day 1963.
Smithey was the family's live-in babysitter and had "psychotic tendencies," according to Fox.
"I really see no value in keeping you in prison any longer. I really see no value in keeping strings on you any longer," Parole Board Chairman and Director Jesse Hernandez was quoted as saying.
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Pumpkin S'mores Dessert Lasagna
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SweetenTheSeason #CollectiveBias
Impress your party guests with this pumpkin s'mores dessert lasagna with layers of pumpkin marshmallow filling and graham cracker. Easy to throw together and can be made in advance!
S'moreo French Silk Pie
What's better than a French silk pie? One that's been s'more-ified! With a s'mores Oreo crust and marshmallow creme topping, this pie will not disappoint.
Coke Cupcakes with Marshmallow Frosting
Share a coke with your friends in cupcake form with these chocolate coke cupcakes with marshmallow topping and a coke glaze.
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S'mores Pumpkin Pie #PumpkinWeek
Pumpkin pie meets s'mores in this adventurous rendition of a classic recipe. Graham cracker crust, a layer of chocolate, classic pumpkin filling, and toasted homemade marshmallow topping.
Hi and welcome to day 3 of #PumpkinWeek hosted by Terri from Love and Confections. We are celebrating our love of the season with a whole week of pumpkin goodies, leading up to National Pumpkin Day. 17 Food Bloggers have come together to share over 65 recipes with you. In addition to homemade pumpkin puree, pie, and cookies, we are also sharing savory pumpkin dishes like hummus, chili and pumpkin corn chowder. Come back every day for #PumpkinWeek recipes. You can also find these great recipes and more on Love and Confections' #PumpkinWeek Pinterest Board!
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When it comes to Thanksgiving recipes such as pumpkin pie, there's a reason why the classic recipes are classics – because they are just good. However I cannot resist the chance to try new things, especially when I can use the same recipe as the base. Last year I took a baby step by adding a brown sugar walnut topping to one pumpkin pie and the made a second without. Despite everyone's protests, the pie with the crumble topping disappeared first.
Taking that experience into mind I jumped off the deep end with this new pumpkin pie rendition. Pumpkin pie meets s'mores. A graham cracker crust with a layer of chocolate sits beneath a classic pumpkin pie filling, which is blanketed by a thick layer of homemade marshmallow topping. Don't have a kitchen torch to toast the marshmallow? Throw it under the broiler but keep a close eye on it. Or do what I did and use a real, full-sized blow torch O:-).
One year ago: Cheddar-BBQ Turkey Meatloaf Muffins
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No-Churn Fluffernutter Ice Cream
After falling in love with marshmallow creme in my no-churn s'mores ice cream I had to try it again. Check out my recipe for no-churn fluffernutter ice cream, shared today over on Kayle's blog The Cooking Actress!
Two years ago: Pizza Quinoa Casserole
Source: Ice cream adapted from my No-Churn S'mores Ice Cream. Shell adapted from Nutella Magic Shell.
No-Churn S'mores Ice Cream #IceCreamWeek
Welcome to Day 5 of Ice Cream Week 2014! This year the event is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen. We have teamed up with 25 amazing bloggers to share some amazing ice cream recipes with you. I hope you belong to a gym. We'll all need it by the end of the week!
Our sponsors for the event have provided us with some great prizes. A huge thanks to Cake Boss, Anolon, Microplane, WÜSTHOF, Page Street Publishing and Quarry Spoon. Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Susan of The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen have tossed in a bonus prize of a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker because they think everyone should own one! After checking out the recipe, be sure to enter using the Rafflecopter widget located at the end of this post.
Ever stress yourself out so much you teeter on the verge or vomiting or crying? Yea I'm there. Ever since this part-time adjunct teaching opportunity came up I have been freaking out both in excitement and nervousness. The reason it has been such a challenge deciding whether to accept or not is not a matter of wanting the job, it is a matter of feasibility due to being in Memphis while I currently reside in Knoxville.
Pros: Related work experience, extra money (albeit small), keep current part-time job and free rent with parents in Knoxville, stay at a friend's while in Memphis
Cons: Only one class for 6 hours a week, driving 11 hours a week (hence the income increase being small)
It is also only for 10 weeks which could be either a good thing and a bad thing. Setting the monetary gain aside (since it is basically negligible) it comes down to one question – is it worth driving 11 hours a week to get experience teaching one class? Maybe I should wait until next term to see if they would have more than one class available? Unfortunately this kind of decision cannot be riddled out by making lists or asking others' opinions, it's a gamble. Experience is good to snatch up when you can but sanity is also important.
It's time like these when I look to food for solace, specifically dessert. Enter in this no-churn s'mores ice cream. I thought for certain that upon freezing the marshmallow creme would cause the ice cream to be rock hard. In fact the exact opposite occurred creating the fluffiest and creamiest ice cream I have ever made. To make things even better, it tastes just like a s'more with plenty of milk chocolate and graham cracker bits. Let your worries drift away for a few scoops-time.
S'mores Lasagna for One
Don't worry about sharing with this s'mores lasagna for one. Made with layers of graham cracker, chocolate sweetened Greek yogurt, and graham crackers.
Happy National S'mores Day! Today is yet another fun food holiday that landed on a Sunday which means this dangerous little guy comes to you in single serving size.
The idea for this came from my chocolate peanut butter cup lasagna which was a huge hit. This s'mores version is a tiny bit healthier being made with Greek yogurt that has been sweetened slightly with cocoa powder and powdered sugar. The rest isn't quite as healthy with marshmallow creme, graham crackers, mini marshmallows and a chocolate drizzle.
If made for a crowd this would great presented in a tall clear glass, better defining the layers. But since I know you're just going to eat this while standing over the kitchen counter there's no need to get all fancy.
Three years ago: Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwich with Au Jus
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Gluten-Free Caramel S'mores Bars
Still waiting to hear back from one last committee member to finalize the date for my dissertation defense. And still stressed out of my mind. So let's talk about sinful desserts. If you want a crazy gooey and delicious dessert that might require the use of a fork or spoon to eat, then these bars are for you. Calling them bars is a loose term because they are so gooey that after cutting, the insides will start to ooze out if you let them sit too long and will create more of a pudding. But regardless of how you eat them they are worth the mess. This is just another way that adding caramel turns something delicious into something awesome.
I made these gluten-free but of course you can easily make them with regular flour and graham crackers. I think part of the reason they were so soft was due to the fact that they were gluten-free though. As proof of their gooey-ness, pictured is three bars stacked in alternating directions – notice how they are already starting to become one. Guess that means they have to be considered one bar and thus one serving ;-).
Two years ago: Butterbeer Ice Cream
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Twinkie Truffles
Step aside Twinkies, these truffles have you beat! You won't need to hunt down the remaining Hostess cakes left in the world once you bite into one of these beauties. After yesterday, I decided to not even try to share something healthy today. It would just look like a joke seeing those two recipes side by side on my homepage. So I present to you, Twinkie truffles!
The truffle base is similar to a cake ball, but instead of frosting I mixed the cake crumbs with marshmallow creme. Then to take them over the top and get into Twinkie-character, a marshmallow creme filling is piped into the middle before being dipped in yellow chocolate coating. Do you see the resemblance?
One year ago: Thai Chicken Pizza
Two years ago: Grilled Steak Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
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Baked Purple Sweet Potato Doughnuts with Marshmallow Glaze
The purple sweet potato is back for round #2! I told you that thing was huge and would result in more than one recipe. In fact, I still have plenty leftover even after making these doughnuts! The purple color was not nearly as vibrant in these as it was in the gnocchi, but I think that is due to a larger flour to potato ratio. No matter, they still taste wonderful.
My favorite part was actually the marshmallow glaze. I had a little extra after I topped off all the doughnuts and found myself dipping them into the glaze repeatedly while eating. Don't tell anyone, but I totally double-dipped! Seriously though these doughnuts are like sweet potato casserole, but dippable. And they are for breakfast.
One year ago: Gluten-Free Cake Batter Pancakes
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THIBODAUX — The football team at E.D. White Catholic High first made it to the Superdome 28 years ago, and the outcome of tonight's game will determine whether 2009 will be its second shot at a title in the 'dome.
Students, teachers, parents, coaches and other fans are ready to cheer the Cardinals all the way to the Superdome.
Support for the team can be seen across town. From hand-painted posters to professional banners, signs have been popping up all over Thibodaux.
The fans are going to "paint the town red," said Brittany Chaisson, a 16-year-old junior on the E.D. White cheerleading team.
Whether the team makes it to the championship depends on tonight's matchup against Parkview
Baptist. The No. 3 Cardinals will face off at 7 p.m. against the No. 2 Eagles at Parkview in Baton Rouge.
E.D. White Athletic Director Preston LeJeune said the team will make it to the championship if they maintain the level of play they've displayed lately.
"Friday's game against Independence was our best game of the year," LeJeune said. "We're going to have to play our
The winner of tonight's game will advance to the Class 3A State Championship game, scheduled a week from today at 8 p.m. in the Superdome. The opposing team at the championship will be the winner of the game between Catholic of New Iberia and Notre Dame of Crowley.
Dr. Mickey Jennings, father of Josh Jennings, a senior free safety on the team, said the team has played extraordinarily well this year.
"It's the first time we've gotten past the quarterfinals in almost 20 years," said the elder Jennings. "It's a chance to go to the Super Bowl of high school."
Allison Lyons, also an E.D. White parent, said she hopes the team makes it to the championship. Lyons graduated from the school in spring 1982, the school year in which the football team made its only previous Superdome appearance.
"We're the first and the only one," she said.
But though Lyons' son Philip plays on the baseball and basketball teams rather than football, she said she and the entire E.D. White community hope that this is the year the football team returns to the state title game.
"All my son's friends are on that team," she said.
Mallory Gros, another cheerleader and a 16-year-old junior, said support from fans, especially parents, has made a big difference. But her cheerleading teammate junior Jamie Chiasson, 17, said the spirit of the young men on E.D. White's football team is what will lead them to victory.
"From the beginning of the season, they definitely had their mind set on it," Chiasson said. "They
really have the determination to do it."
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Let's Harness Economic Growth With Innovation And A Carbon Price
This is one in a series of viewpoints on the core question of growth — JR.
Should we try to limit economic growth? Given the dire straits carbon-powered growth has put our planet in, it's hard not to at least consider the possibility — but we shouldn't think about it too hard.
The situation is well-summarized by Ramez Naam in a recent blog post for Scientific American based on his recent book, The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet:
The world is facing incredibly serious natural resource and environmental challenges: Climate change, fresh water depletion, ocean over-fishing, deforestation, air and water pollution, the struggle to feed a planet of billions.
All of these challenges are exacerbated by ever rising demand -– over the next 40 years estimates are that demand for fresh water will rise 50%, demand for food will rise 70%, and demand for energy will nearly double –- all in the same period that we need to tackle climate change, depletion of rivers and aquifers, and deforestation.
All of these problems are tied in one way or another to economic growth. So, logically, if we want to stop the problems shouldn't we just stop or even reverse economic growth? Naam rejects this logic despite fully embracing the scale of the problems we face. His first reason is that stopping growth would not work morally or practically.
It would not work morally, Naam argues, because most of future growth will benefit people whose living standards are far below those in the developed world. To tell these people to forego the benefits of economic growth, when those in the developed world have already received those benefits, is grossly unfair. As Naam points out:
Roughly one billion people alive today on the planet have access to automobiles, air conditioners, and central heat. The other six billion do not. Two billion lack access to a toilet. One billion lack access to electricity. The bulk of the growth to come over the next few decades – in global GDP, in energy consumption, in CO2 emissions, in food consumption, in water use – will all come from the developing world. That growth isn't trivial. It isn't about building McMansions or driving SUVs. It is, by and large, growth that reflects the aspirations of billions of people around the world to rise to a level of comfort that nearly everyone in the rich world – even those we consider poor – enjoy. A path forward that doesn't allow room for billions to rise out of poverty and to at least this modicum of comfort is not a very appealing one.
And stopping growth would definitely not work practically. Even if we could stop growth in the developed world, how are we to stop those in the developing world who want to consume more from doing so? Short of enforcing austerity in the developing work, we can't do that.
Naam's second reason is that stopping growth is not necessary. The resources—water, food, energy, etc.–available to humanity greatly outstrip the potential needs of our population, not only today but in the future. The problem lies in accessing those resources in an economically feasible and environmentally sustainable way. That in turn depends on innovation, both technological and economic.
Take energy and, by extension, climate change. The price of solar energy is coming down fast; a watt of solar power today costs only 5 percent of what it cost in 1980. But it's still too expensive to out-compete fossil fuels, even setting aside, for the moment, the storage problem. The solution: massive investment in clean energy R&D (we currently invest only $5 billion a year in this, actually less than we invested in the 1980's) and a carbon tax to encourage clean energy use and accelerate innovation. As Naam puts it:
The fundamental driver here is economics. Consumers, businesses, and industry want energy. They need energy. That's true everywhere in the world. And they will buy whatever sort of energy is cheapest. Indeed, if a new source of energy is sufficiently cheaper than the old, consumers will switch their energy consumption from the old to the new.
If we want to win the race against climate change, one thing matters more than all others: make renewable energy (including storage) cheap. Dirt cheap. And do it fast.
Naam makes similar arguments about challenges in the areas of water and food: the solution is not to stop growth but to innovate and to do it fast. In this, he joins such "green growth" advocates as Ralf Fücks, President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and a leading member of the German Green Party, whose new book Smart Growth: The Green Revolution lays out a number of ideas similar to Naam's (see our post on the book here). Refreshingly, unlike libertarian promoters of technological innovation, both authors see the very important role government has to play in regulating, investing and generally getting the economics of innovation right. My hunch is that this kind of thinking will play an increasingly important part in our struggle to solve our looming environmental problems.
50 Responses to Let's Harness Economic Growth With Innovation And A Carbon Price
There is no need to put direct limits on growth, but we obviously do need to limit resource consumption and emissions to sustainable levels. A cap on co2 emissions is just one such limit.
For perhaps the next half century, these limits will not slow growth significantly – if at all. Eg, the CBO projected that cap-and-trade on co2 would slow growth by only 1% to 3% by 2050. Initially, it should be possible to come up with substitutes for other resources, just as it is possible to come up with substitutes for dirty energy.
But if you do the math and see the levels that the Gross World Product would reach in the next century or two if current growth rates continue, it becomes obvious that limits on resource supplies will slow growth significantly at some point.
Remember that maintaining a given rate of growth requires repeated doublings – which means
–growth of more than one-thousand fold in ten doubling periods,
–more than one-million fold in 20 doubling periods,
–more than one-billion fold in 30 doubling periods,
and so on.
It is impossible to sustain that indefinitely.
US GDP has gone up by about 50% since 2004. Do you feel 50% better off?
They are now predicting that by the end of this century there will be almost 11 billion people as growth rates in Africa exceed expectations. Does anyone seriously believe we have the resources for all 11 billion to live a Western lifestyle with modern conveniences? Such an aspiration makes no sense. As it is, almost all global ecosystems are in decline and a few are seriously failing. To believe people can innovate their way out of this mess seems to be largely wishful thinking and certainly has no scientific underpinning.
Define growth. Are we talking GDP — an utterly outdated metric that is almost completely divorced from human well-being?
As for growth and poverth, the New Economics Foundation has a study revealing that for every $100 of global economic growth from 1990-2001, on 60 cents went to pople below the $1-per-day line. Someone is profiting from economic grwoth, it would seem, but it isn't the world's poor.
Two of Naam's biggest errors
#1, even if the following is true, which I doubt
"The resources—water, food, energy, etc.–available to humanity greatly outstrip the potential needs of our population, not only today but in the future. "
if we preserve an economic system that requires nonstop growth FOREVER there is a single conclusion: someday, eventually, Naam's belief that resources outstrip need will become untrue.
Either need is greater than resources right now, or if we try to economically grow FOREVER, need will be greater than resources later.
In ecology, population studies show again and again that the hardest falls happen after the greatest overshoots.
Since hitting the growth wall is inevitable if we try to grow nonstop FOREVER, the lesson such studies hold for us is that it is only rational to try to rein in growth now, when the fall is less.
Big Error #2
Naam assumes that the only non-growth future is to halt the growth model with the developed world maintaining their current standards of "convenience everything and disposable anything", and that this is the standard to which everyone else will (indubitably) aspire. But in a non-growth world, there isn't much need for marketing and lots of room for replacing induced consumer wants with an emphasis on developing the human being.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say that this change in values is synonymous with nongrowth economics.
In sum, Naam's evaluation appears to lack much vision as to what a world could be like, once freed from its delusional and ultimately self defeating obsession with trying to grow the economy, nonstop, FOREVER while the resources of the planet are finite.
Ramez Naam, let me begin with the tnaky yu for this brilliant view you included:
"All of these problems are tied in one way or another to economic growth. So, logically, if we want to stop the problems shouldn't we just stop or even reverse economic growth? Naam rejects this logic despite fully embracing the scale of the problems we face. His first reason is that stopping growth would not work morally or practically.
It would not work morally, Naam argues, because most of future growth will benefit people whose living standards are far below those in the developed world. To tell these people to forego the benefits of economic growth, when those in the developed world have already received those benefits, is grossly unfair."
Absolute common sense, and I mean this; give the poorest, very poor and the poor the equipment they need to prosper while we overweight and greedy northern hemisphere population scale down our carbon footprint to accommodate their reasonable increase in climate-forcing gases.
Lets see the big green weigh in on this.
BTW, Joe, an overdue thank you for this series re economic growth. I haven't been reading as regularly as usual (real life issues) and missed the Robert Kennedy piece…. a belated "wonderful post"!
From the article:
"by 2050, we will need to grow 70% more food than we do today to feed the world.
If food production doesn't rise by that amount, prices will rise further. Hunger – something we've made steady progress against for 40 years – may rise once more. Political unrest and global instability may follow.
Farm irrigation uses 70% of the world's fresh water
On current course and speed, the Ogallala aquifer will run dry before this century is over, and possibly much sooner. The North China Plain aquifer will run dry. The Indus River Valley aquifer will run dry."
So where do we get the water from, and it must be cheap water if you want to keep farmers in business, to increase food production by 70%?
Why innovation of course! That lovely word that harkens to the future, encourages our can-do spirit and sparks our imagination. Innovation: the techno solution, the efficiency solution, the favored solution of technophiles like computer scientists (Naam is a computer scientist).
Yeah baby, you just gotta believe, you gotta open your mind to the possibilities. We are going to grow 70% more food on the same amount of land used today and be able to supply water for that food from shrinking aquifers, rivers and lakes. We are going to have food and water for all the teeming masses at affordable prices…no food riots, no hunger, and certainly no famine. And this innovation is going to be cheap. The food and water will be cheap. Innovation is the cheap solution for all our problems.
Yes, growth in what? One thing we need to stop immediately is growth in inequality both within, and between, countries, ME
Hmmm….This guy really needs to read some Richard Heinberg (The End of Growth), Chris Martenson (The Crash Course, http://www.peakprosperity.com), Dmitry Orlov (The Five Stages of Collapse), and David Korowicz.
We are in for a non-negotiable contraction as rates of resource extraction peak and decline — e.g., (fossil energy, metal ores, fresh water, etc.). The contraction of the global economywill likely be non-linear, as complex system tend to fall apart faster than they were built.
Again…non-negotiable. Just hope/pray your local nuclear reactors and all their conbustible, grid-cooled spent fuel stay intact.
Innovation would have been nice, it could have been done last year and it should have been done a decade ago. Woulda shoulda coulda.
Still sitting here on what we need.
In constant dollars, US GDP has grown by about 15% since 2004 , and the population has grown by about 8%. Of course, as you imply all the net "growth" (and then some) has ended up in the hands of the top 1% of the population.
Sorry Mark, I have to agree with Mr Naam and disagree with you on this one. However you might package it, your vision of possible change will be seen by most of the "West" as averaging down. Ain't Gonna Happen without SERIOUS coercion.
Similarly, the rest of the World's population undoubtedly aspires to things like cars, refrigeration etc. that we in the West take for granted. Until those aspirations are met in some form or another, any attempts to prevent BAU progress in the 3rd world will generate a furious popular response.
The Science Fiction writer Jerry Pournelle put it in a nutshell back in the 1970's when he wrote in a non-fiction article 'that isn't conservation, that's DEPRIVATION' when considering some suggestions from conservationists after the Club of Rome report. (Please note that I totally oppose Mr Pournelle's general political attitudes, but I have to agree with this one.)
Economic growth has an expiration date. Maybe we aren't there yet, but we do have to start thinking about how we will eventually handle that truth.
So we have a lot to do. Billions to get out of poverty. Transitioning developed economies so the future residents can have a quality life, but also live sustainably. Plenty of work to do. But, we have to think and plan starting now.
ozajh: Your arguing from political feasibility, Mark from mathematical certainty. The trick is to try to bridge both truths, political feasibility, and the mathematical truth about limits and exponential functions. Within a couple of generations if not earlier, growth of consumption of physical resources will have stopped. We can pretend otherwise, and be unprepared, -or we can start thinking hard about how we are going to deal with it.
Health is wealth, not air conditioners.
Ecosystem knowledge is real value.
Living off this is obviously infinitely better than modern economic slavery.
We need to be careful how we define living standards; I believe they have been repeatedly and consistently stolen in the name of economic growth.
Clans will return (conveniently how humanity is best served) but it is going to be a painful process.
Hang on everyone and focus on what counts.
Its always been a race, can we get the developing world past the demographic transition (the effect that when wealthy enough birth rate drops), before the combination of population growth and resource depletion makes that impossible. Ruy is just propounding this long conventional wisdom. the problem is we have wasted far too much time, we humans get distracted by secondary issues, like war, religions, ideologies, etc. etc. We've probably lost this race -but maybe there is still time.
There is almost certainly no 'next half century' for humanity, certainly not if any type of 'growth economy' is aimed for. Already we are way past the planet's capacity to support the current extent of human depredation, and, consequently, ecosystems are in accelerating collapse. We urgently need de-growth, which can only be achieved by radical redistribution of the planet's wealth currently monopolised by the tiny, hyper-avaricious, parasitic and kleptocratic elites. In any case any 'wealth' produced by any type of 'growth' will be stolen by these elites, as ever.
The elite, those for whom your country is run, certainly ought to, since they have snaffled the lot, but, being insatiably greedy, they still want 'More' as Johnny Rocco might have said.
Absolutely. I put the chances of reaching eight billion as about 8 billion to one, against.
That's a good summary; and I agree that people in the growth-obsessed economies are unlikely to choose to adopt any other economic model.
I often say in these pages that global warming, as bad as it is, still constitutes a symptom of a much bigger civilization-busting problem: nonstop growth. It's one head of the mythical hydra; nonstop growth is the beast's heart.
We *must* slay the heart of this beast;
But I believe that we won't ever really try.
And that makes the human species no more "wise man" than the rabbit or elk populations when you remove all the predators. They breed, eat up all the primary foods, then the secondary foods, and then the tertiary foods, and then their numbers drop off "the cliff". Apparently, our species has a lot in common with arctic sea ice.
On the other hand, even though I think these things, I am only responsible for me. So the ultimate question is "Regardless what the world around me is doing, are my choices consistent with an alternative vision?" And then I carry on.
Tight or profound integration with natural systems; poor people first; net zero and net positive; whole system design are probably design philosophies that pretty much cover this here and now.
Nano technologies by mid-century may start to revolutionize the advance of civilization at rates faster than information and computer technologies (ICTs); where the built environment may have a lower footprint than natural systems.
Eden Effect:
High quality of life with a low cost of living.
Not any job, only Green Jobs can start to move the economies of the world out of the morass. As long as capitalism has the ability to profit, handily I would add, from polluting the commons, every "Black" job just digs the hole deeper. Only green jobs ADD VALUE to the economy and start to rejuvenate Earth's life support systems as well as the economy via energy from the renewable sector.
Corporations are "People" now for better or worse. Speaking as a "Real People", if I throw a paper cup out the car window, bingo, ~$100 fine. ($1,000 in Alaska.) Corpro/People can pollute the air, water, dirt, and oceans with Toxins and the dirtiest Corpro/People have become richest Corpro/People in the world. The foundation of Western Capitalism. Even the breast milk my Daughter-in Law feeds the Grand daughter is contaminated with their toxins. ,Still Corpro/People get rich and even subsidized with YOURS & MY TAX MONEY. And I cannot stop it. GOP don't fund abortion. Fine. A precedent. How come I must fund the Ecocide of Earth's life support systems? Go figure. Please help! Stop profits from the pollution of the commons…. PLEASE…
Unless we clearly define what we mean by "growth," this discussion is meaningless. It's obvious that economic growth cannot continue for very long if it's based on the conventional model of rampant exploitation and befouling of the planet's natural resources. Thus, the conventional model of growth surely must be discarded to secure the survival of our species. Whether in the developed or underdeveloped world, economic growth is simply impossible on a hot planet with rising sea levels, shrinking fresh water supplies and massive crop failures.
As for a new model of growth, this can only be based on very strict principles of environmental sustainability. In order to survive, humans must use our intelligence today to project the cumulative impacts of every one of our current activities many years into the future. This represents an extremely tough challenge, particularly given our short-sighted, material culture.
But the excellent work of climate scientists has opened a door to the horrific future we surely will face if we fail to change our current course. Our survival depends on marshaling a similar level of science and impact analysis with respect to everything we're doing today. We already have clearly established that business-as-usual represents a dead end for humanity. It's time to stop behaving as though our economic activities are inconsequential.
Reinventing Fire China with Amory Lovins
This report from China is very encouraging.
Redirecting a force of nature might include taking the electricity of a CSP system and grounding the electricity.
That would take surface heat and transfer it to the ground as electricity. What, though, would nature do with that redirected force of nature?
It is non-negotiable. It doesn't matter what people want; it's what they can have. People in the "third world" are a bit more adaptable than we westerners and don't need air conditioning (I can tell you as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Solomon Islands 20+ years ago.).
If the marginal cost of a barrel of oil (the highest cost to extract oil, e.g. Bakken) exceeds what a "growing" economy can bear in the next few years, then growth will be a mere wish. Good luck to the solar and wind entrepreneurs.
One final point: World GDP growth rising faster than debt seems to be a thing of the past.
Of course, another concept of redirecting a force of nature would be to have the CSP tower near an apartment area where the directing mirrors are on the roofs of the apartment buildings.
Agreed, the main factor is slowing both population and emissions may be climate change, as it is impossible to drive one's SUV on a freeway no longer above the ocean.
Bill D. wrote: "Unless we clearly define what we mean by 'growth', this discussion is meaningless."
There are concepts of economic "growth" that are as different from each other as the "growth" of a blastocyst into a fetus is different from the growth of a cancerous tumor.
Without the first type of "growth", you would not be alive.
Whereas with unrestricted "growth" of the second type, you won't be alive for long.
Yes, walls of concentrating mirrors on skyscrapers focused on the tops of the tallest ones with turbines . . . a terribly interesting vision of the future.
Or, even better, streets lined with fruit trees, vegetable gardens, watermelon patches . . . vineyards.
Yes, it is an interesting thought of the recessed line of reflectors rising up the wall of the building forcing the heat and light to one point of reception and collection.
I suppose that if the point of collection is close to the reflectors and the reflectors are above 3rd floor level, there would be a reduction of possible risk of interception of the stream of light and heat.
The numbskulls will try to do so, for a while.
Streets and buildings. Break up high-rise office buildings into multi-use structures. Some areas will be devoted to living, some to work (people can work and live in the same building), some to growing and processing food in multi-story greenhouses (remove the floors, which are non-structural in any case, for a couple of levels). Put solar power units on the top and the building becomes a more-or-less self contained living pod.
A total load of bollocks, if you'll pardon my French. Downsizing is going to happen any way, as the global ecosystems collapse. We can do it constructively, and most people will survive, with a more than decent sufficiency of life's material goods, (and increased non-material well-being, I would assert)or we can try to cling on to our SUVs, air-con, McMansions, Jetskis etc (much bought with borrowed money), and we will all go down together. What is absolutely required is a small decrease in material consumption and extravagance by the masses in the West (who, in any case are either suffering 'austerity' or, as in the USA, have endured decades of stagnation in median household income and wealth, and savage falls in the latter amongst black and Hispanic households)and a gargantuan redistribution of the immense wealth held by the tiny, parasitic, elites. Redistribution of wealth will allow material consumption to be decreased for the over-endowed, while the masses of deliberately deprived poor, can live without the fear of destitution and starvation. Such conditions have always led to the demographic transition to smaller families, another development that we absolutely require. Arguments against downsizing in the West are always, I have found, not so hidden assertions against equality and economic justice, and for elite privilege and power.
'Innovation' here is Newspeak for GE crops and other techno-fixes, controlled by Western capitalist corporations, which will impoverish poor farmers, lead to lower yields, the spread of 'superweeds' and vastly increased herbicide and pesticide use,all with the real aim of increasing the corporations' profits, and Western control over global food supplies. Once you have the world gripped in a deadly hold, through their bellies and those of their children, their 'hearts and minds' will surely follow.
I've had a lot of these discussions (some of them are available on my website), but after last summer's big Arctic meltdown I've concluded they are irrelevant. Anyone look at the U.S. Drought Monitor recently?
The negative economic effects of climate change are coming down much faster than the "growth" economy will be able to override them. Resilience and "mitigative adaptation" (e.g. increasing the number of mid-sized organic farms that both feed people and store carbon) will become the "growth" of the future.
Nanotechnology is all good and well, but we've let things get out of hand. If we're going to survive, we need to try to get ahead of the eco collapse curve by diversifying, conserving resources and sequestering carbon. The government, now a tool of the 1%, will be of little help — it will probably exacerbate the problems with regulations designed to enrich it's "donors."
You'd better learn to grow your own.
How do we get to the demographic transition when the world's wealth is being misappropriated by the elite at a rate unprecedented in history? Growth that only benefits the 1% is the exact antithesis of what is required. First must come redistribution and economic justice, the precise opposite of what the parasites and their MSM stooges insist on.
We have to hang together or we will all hang separately.
Also, put in some windows that can be opened and show people how to stay cool without air con. And, get people organized into self managing groups so they can cooperate willingly to make the joint work. It won't if they are structured on the military model, ME
Growth can be vertical, focusing on quantity, or horizontal, focusing on quality. For too long, "progress" has assumed vertical growth. What is required is the realization, not grasped by this article, that the world needs a much greater emphasis on horizontal growth in quality (life, human rights), and much less emphasis on vertical growth with emphasis on quantity (money, population.)
And so if the point of collection on the adjacent was a mirror, then I guess the point of light could be reflected back to a point on the building with the recessed collectors. Would there be some overshoot of heat and light surrounding the mirror that could be transmitted through the building for lighting and to heat water. Thanks for holding the mirror so steadily. With the heat and light coming back to the starting building at one point, what could be done with it. Could the heat and light be separated to separate forces?
Hi TH, there seems to be an inconsistancy between the GDP Growth plot from the World Bank and their GDP plot http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?display=graph
Or, buildings as giant Zeer "pot-in-a-pot(s)" using heat of vaporization cooling known by ancient East Indian and Egyptian civilizations.
Profound use of natural capital where human capital is the most important component.
The economics and efficiencies of profound integration with natural systems are totally positive disruptive.
Evolution has had billions of years to work this stuff out.


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Yea mushrooms are my favorite vegetable that cucumbers and mashed potatos
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I have I was served a cold mushroom one time it was really gross. I wasted my money on that mushroom.
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I'm a vegetarian so I use vegetables in my stuff. Also I'm making vegetable soup sometime this week.
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On Jewish Pitchers – And Some Departed HeroesTuesday, June 7th, 2011
career victories. Pitching for the Washington Nationals this year, Marquis (pronounced Mar-kee) earned his first big-league win ten years ago by beating the Mets at
Shea Stadium while pitching for the Atlanta Braves. Jason, who'll turn 33 on
August 2, has also pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and Colorado
Jason had a smattering of Hebrew school and a bar mitzvah. When he collects
his 108th career victory, he'll pass Steve Stone to place third on the all-time
Jewish pitcher career win list. Sandy Koufax, who won 165 games, is in second
place and Ken Holtzman is first with 174. Holtzman also leads all Jewish
pitchers in losses with 150 (Koufax lost just 87 games).
93 losses when he won his 100th game.
Jersey, when Koufax was in his prime in his last couple of seasons and he was
the main topic of conversation when Jewish soldiers schmoozed.
enough to have met Duke Snider and Harmon Killebrew several times on the baseball
beat. Both were real gentle men and gentlemen. They played in the pre-steroid
era when home runs weren't tainted.
22-year career with the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City
Royals. He grew up in Idaho playing on the grass at the family home. When his
mother complained to his father about the boys using the lawn for their playing
field, Mr. Killebrew responded, "we're raising boys, not grass."
Dodgers and was the favorite player of many a Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the
1950s – including Rabbi Paysach Krohn.
home runs in his 18 seasons (1947-1964) with Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers,
New York Mets and San Francisco Giants. Snider was at the top of his game with Brooklyn as he topped 40 or more home runs for five consecutive years (1953-1957).
average. The Duke, fittingly, was the last player to hit a home run in the
history of Ebbets Field (1957).
Marty Marion were familiar names and faces.
infielder, died at age 82. A .276 lifetime hitter, he was a valuable member of the
Yankees, helping the club to eight World Series trips during his time in New York – all under manager Casey Stengel.
his entire l3-year career in St. Louis (11 with the Cardinals and two years with
the Browns of blessed memory). Marion also managed both St. Louis teams and the
Chicago White Sox.
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I have created an archive page.. where i wanted to display which archive month is displaying.. how can I display the month name?
To display the Month, place this in your template where you want the date to show:
That will show the full month name and the day. If you just want an abbreviation of the month like Aug. you would use:
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Here's a complete example using it with the title:
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Kristen Stewart spent her Friday night snacking on sushi at Bond St, and according to New Moon director Chris Weitz, Stewart said the most on-set curse words of her castmates. But he also noted that her outtakes won't be included in the film's DVD set, as "that blooper reel would take us into NC-17 territory." Tom Cruise wants to socialize Suri by giving her a baby brother, and though Katie's not following the Scientology detox to promote conception, the couple could be expecting "as early as summer." Three-year-old Shiloh Jolie-Pitt rocked a skullcap and toy gun holster in Venice. Padma Lakshmi and Mark Sanchez watched the Knicks lose, but not together. And after wrapping Passion Play with Megan Fox, Mickey Rourke is sporting an elaborate arm sling.
As President Obama was busy passing health-care reform, Michelle, Malia, and Sasha were busy frolicking around New York, acting (almost) like regular tourists. The trio stopped by Dylan's Candy Bar, a performance of Blue Man Group, Magnolia Bakery, and had a private tour of the Empire State Building. Chace Crawford and Jessica Szohr buzzed around L.A.'s Crown Bar, where Crawford "wasn't shy about flirting with any girl he was talking to." Kellan Lutz, Anna Kendrick, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler partied at Hollywood's Coco de Ville with Lance Bass, who got a special shout-out when the D.J. played "Bye Bye Bye." While Kim Kardashian was filming in Miami, Reggie Bush offered table dancers lemon-drop shots at Avenue, launched a 2 a.m. dance-off, and partied with Lindsey Vonn. He also hit up Greenhouse with Michael Strahan and a slew of women. Courtney Love wrote her cell number on United Entertainment founder Jason Weinberg's Facebook wall with the message, "Call me. I hope to God you're in NYC tomorrow. Love you and see you on set." And after Julia Roberts stopped by West Hollywood's Yogurt Stop for a mango fro-yo, "a man burst into tears then bought the mango just like Julia had. Then he fished her napkin out of the trash." Clearly not an L.A. native.
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"Even with the switch to turbocharging, the new Porsche 911 is still the sports car to beat."
One of the longest-running models of sports car in existence, the latest Porsche 911, which Porsche calls the 991, features a lower roof, more bulbous headlights and sharper rear lights. It's faster and more composed than ever, yet it also boasts impressive efficiency and surprising practicality. Although the Porsche 911 is bit of an institution, rivals like the Jaguar F-Type, BMW i8 and the latest Audi R8 means competition in this rarefied field is stiff.
The biggest changes to the 911 have taken place in the engine bay. If you go for either the Carrera or Carrera S, you now get a 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged flat-six engine. This is the first time that the 'normal' 911 models have come with turbochargers, abandoning natural aspiration after 52 years of the model's production. Make no mistake; this is a major development.
The entry-level Carrera now gets a 365bhp version of the all-new 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged flat six, while the more expensive Carrera S gets a massive 414bhp – the same as a mid-nineties 911 Turbo. This means the new cars are considerably faster than their forbears, with 0-62mph coming up in 4.3 and 4.6 seconds for the Carrera S and Carrera respectively. These figures are thanks to a wide spread of power across the rev range, giving more performance at lower revs.
Not only are the latest 911s more powerful than their predecessors, they're also more efficient and cheaper to run. When fitted with the standard with the seven-speed manual gearbox, the Carrera and Carrera S will return 34mpg and 32.5mpg respectively. This equates to respective CO2 emissions of 190g/km for the Carrera and 199g/km CO2 for the Carrera S.
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As well as changes to the engine, the latest 911 boasts an interior that has received a major makeover inspired by the Porsche Panamera saloon. All 911s get leather upholstery as standard, with some of the more powerful models featuring some suede-like Alcantara fabric for a sportier look.
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On Navel Lint and Other Scientific Triumphs
The world scarcely needs any more medical journals. The National Library of Medicine already indexes some 5,200 of them, from Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology to Gut.
But based on the dozens of studies that pass my desk every day, I think there should be two more scholarly periodicals: I'd call them Duh!, for findings that never seemed to be in doubt in the first place, and Huh?, for those whose usefulness remains obscure, at least to lay readers.
Duh!'s first issue could include findings such as these, which ran in prestigious journals or were presented at scientific conferences recently:
•Toddlers become irritable when prevented from napping.
•Cats make humans do what they want by purring.
•TV crime dramas inaccurately portray violent crime in America.
•People with high IQs make wise economic decisions.
Huh?'s first issue could contain these head-scratchers:
•Men are better than women at hammering in the dark.
•Young orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos laugh when tickled.
•Neither alcohol (in him) nor makeup (on her) effect a man's ability to guess a woman's age.
•The more abdominal hair, the greater the tendency to collect belly-button lint.
Not surprisingly, the researchers involved in each of these studies maintain that their work is neither obvious nor silly when understood in the proper context. (Having an advanced degree also helps.)
"What makes you think that it was common knowledge that laughter has a pre-human basis?" Marina Davila Ross, a primatologist at the University of Portsmouth, U.K., wrote in an email. For their study in Current Biology last month, she and colleagues compared "tickle-induced vocalizations" from four types of great apes and human infants and determined that the sounds share a common evolutionary ancestry, going back at least 10 million years.
Karen McComb, a University of Sussex behavioral ecologist, was equally protective of her cat-communication study, which ran in Current Biology last week. "Of course pet owners know that their cats and dogs have particular ways of getting their attention," she emailed. "The interesting thing about our study is…WHY they do this."
After having 50 humans rate solicitation and non-solicitation purrs from 10 different cats, the researchers found that particularly urgent purrs have the same sound frequency as a meow, similar to a baby's cry. Thus cats may be tapping into the intrinsic human compulsion to nurture offspring. "Even cat owners are surprised to find what is going on," wrote Dr. McComb.
(Listen to solicitation and non-solicitation purrs on the University of Sussex Web site: http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/cmvcr/Domestic%20cats.html )
Sometimes things that uninformed readers think are obvious aren't at all to people who know more. When I suggested to Stephen V. Burks, a behavioral economist at the University of Minnesota, Morris, that it wasn't surprising that people with high IQs make wise economic choices, he said, "If you think so, you knew more than a lot of economists did." His multiyear study of 1,000 trucker-trainees, funded in part by the MacArthur Foundation and reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, is the first strong evidence that cognitive and noncognitive skills are linked, he said. On one level, it could help explain why some people are poor; on another level, it shows that even in service jobs, such as trucking, that don't require a college degree but do require a lot of self-management, those with greater cognitive skills are more likely to succeed.
Some studies attempt to show that a correlational relationship is actually causal (that is, two things don't just go together; one thing causes the other). That was the case with the study finding that 2-to-3-year-olds get more worried, anxious and cranky when deprived of naps. Monique K. LeBourgeois, an assistant professor at Brown University's Center for the Study of Human Development, explained that the study, presented at a sleep-research conference last month, is part of a larger research program looking at pathways to mental illness, and with some schools eliminating naps in all-day pre-kindergarten programs, "hard science is needed to inform public policy."
At times, a seemingly obvious research finding serves a secondary point. Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Timothy Lineberry says he and the two medical students who compared the murder situations depicted on six seasons of "CSI" and "CSI: Miami" with national crime data weren't surprised that they didn't match. They were emphasizing the point that alcohol plays a larger role in such crimes than the public may realize. The study was presented to the American Psychiatric Association in May.
In the same vein, the report in the British Journal of Psychology in April that alcohol and makeup have little effect on a man's ability to judge a woman's age served, in part, to refute an oft-heard excuse given by male sex offenders for picking up underage women in bars.
Interestingly, the more participants drank, the less likely they were to rate the women as attractive. "This seemingly flies in the face of the commonly held notion of 'beer goggles,' " said lead researcher Vincent Egan, a forensic psychologist at the University of Leicester, U.K.
Several of the researchers I contacted expressed frustration with the way their work had been characterized in the popular press.
"What the media glommed on to was the difference between men and women hammering in the dark and the logical question was, 'Why do we care? We'll never hammer in the dark,' " said Duncan Irschick, an associate professor of human biomechanics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His study on hammering, presented at an experimental-biology conference last month, is part of a five-year $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how humans, from infancy to adulthood, learn to use tools under different conditions. "On the most profound level, it really addresses something about why we are human," he said. "Animals don't use tools."
When reminded that the press release for his study had highlighted the hammering-in-the-dark aspect, Dr. Irschick noted that press releases often focus on something simple to attract media attention.
Indeed, in an effort to attract media coverage, academics—and their publicists— often underestimate the ability of the public to understand and appreciate what they are studying and why.
Huh? and Duh! would attempt to bridge this communication gap between academic researchers and the popular press. Phrases such as "novel empirical construct" will be replaced by "which nobody has done quite this way before." Words such as "whilst" will be banned.
Given the current push for "evidence-based medicine," we may well see more studies attempting to confirm the previously only suspected, providing ongoing fodder for Duh! (As editor-in-chief, I'm thinking of tapping Gordon C.S. Smith, a University of Cambridge obstetrician, who wrote a classic paper in the British Medical Journal in 2003 noting that he could find no randomized controlled trials testing whether parachutes prevent death and injuries in response to "gravitational challenge" —i.e., jumping out of aircraft.)
Like Dr. Smith, a few academic researchers are having a bit of fun, which we will certainly encourage in Huh? Georg Steinhauser, a chemist at the Vienna University of Technology, said it was the surprise of his career that the journal Medical Hypotheses accepted his study entitled "The Nature of Navel Fluff." Inspired by a question posed in the 2005 book, "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" Dr. Steinhauser theorized that belly-button lint is largely the result of abdominal hair channeling loose shirt fibers. To test his hypothesis, he collected 503 pieces of his own belly-button lint over three years, wearing different shirts. Then he shaved his abdominal hair and found that no more lint collected.
"Many people nominated me for an ig-Nobel prize," Dr. Steinhauser wrote.
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"To model an engine is algebraic simple.
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After reading "They call me Mr 500" by Andy Granatelli about 25 years ago, his vivid description of this amazing motor has always stayed with me and I would love to hear (read) about someone's experience being near it.
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