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Posts Tagged ‘recommendation’
Apple’s Green Thing
In green technology on December 3, 2008 at 3:36 pmThere is much to improve on. Keep up the good work, Apple.
Talk on LHC @ NUS
In Uncategorized on November 25, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Speaker: Prof. Bruno Mansoulie (CERN)
Date: Tuesday, 9th December 2008
Venue: NUS Faculty of Science, LT27
Time: 1800 hours
Do come early. The turnout is expected to be enormous
UPDATE:
Sorry, but the talk has been cancelled due to the speaker not being able to come to Singapore on that day
The Gardens’ Talk Series (Dec 08) – Adventures in Collecting & Studying Beautiful Rhododendrons in South-East Asia
In Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Forbes Magazine on the Fifth Fuel
In Uncategorized on July 26, 2008 at 1:22 pmby Lloyd Alter, for treehugger.com, 17th July 2008
Forbes Magazine has produced a special report on a subject dear to our hearts, efficiency, the fifth fuel. Amory Lovins kicks it off with The Case for Efficiency:
“Using smarter technologies, more brains and less money to wring more work from less delivered energy–what energy experts call “end-use efficiency”–is the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest, fastest, most diverse, least visible, least understood and most neglected way to provide energy services.”
Its photo essay with ten efficiency bangs for your buck include green roofs, building orientation, but surprisingly, from a business magazine known as “the Capitalist Tool” and owned by a right wing perennial presidential candidate, such un-American ideas as bicycles and following the speed limit.
Another article looks at the ten most fuel efficient neighbourhoods in America, which turn out to include Brooklyn Heights and Koreatown in Los Angeles.
We are thrilled to see such a mainstream and relatively conservative publication making such a big deal about the best and cheapest energy source we have- efficiency. ::Forbes : The Fifth Fuel
TreeHugger on Efficiency
Poor Energy Habits Slug Households $300 Million a Year
Graphic Of The Day: USA Residential Energy Consumption Outpacing Population Growth
It’s The Efficiency, Stupid: New York Times Gets It Right This Time
Beating the Energy Efficiency Paradox (Part I)
Superconducting Cables Beat Back NIMBY
Good Reads II
In Uncategorized on June 17, 2008 at 6:19 pmSix Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas
Six Degrees, I tell you now, is terrifying
-Sunday Times
A book about global warming has won this year’s Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
Mark Lynas’ Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales. The book explains how Earth will change for every degree rise in temperature – from droughts to mass extinctions.
Mr Lynas was presented with the winner’s £10,000 cheque at a ceremony hosted by the UK academy of science.
The award is one of the major publishing events of the year in the UK. Previous winners have included Bill Bryson, Stephen J Gould, Roger Penrose, and Stephen Hawking.
Six Degrees uses published scientific data and interviews with leading researchers to illustrate the changes we could witness in a warmer world.
Professor Jonathan Ashmore, the chair of the judges, described the book as “compelling and gripping”.
“It presents a series of scientifically plausible, worst-case scenarios without tipping into hysteria,” he said.
“Six Degrees is not just a great read, written in an original way, but also provides a good overview of the latest science on this highly topical issue.
“This is a book that will stimulate debate and that will, Lynas hopes, move us to action in the hope that this is a disaster movie that never happens. Everyone should read this book.”
-BBC News
Just to feed your curiousity…
The six books shortlisted for the Royal Society’s General Prize were:
and the Junior Science Books Category…
The Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do, written by Rebecca Gilpin & Leonie Pratt and designed and illustrated by Josephine Thompson
Go check all these out if you have the time. 
Good Reads I
In Uncategorized on May 8, 2008 at 10:32 pmThis is the inaugural post of Good Reads. A new feature I would like to introduce to my blog that recommends good reads, almost entirely non-fiction. Hope you like it, and make comments as well.
Climbing Mount Improbable
by Richard Dawkins
Review:
A very illuminating book. Dawkins adopts the analogy of mountains, or any highland for that matter to describe epitomes in evolution, such as the eye, the wing etc, whilst showing how natural selection can climb such precipices relatively easily in a series of progressive steps without seemingly having to scale such heights in a single bound. The sheer cliffs of these mountains are not the only way to climb. There are gentle slopes to be found. Dawkins explains and shows where these gentle slops may be. This is the book for anyone interested in the origins of apparently inconceivable evolutionary wonders such as the wing, spiders’ webs, the eye, fig wasps etc. It would put the Argument from Design to the natural complexity of life into the trash.
In Search of Superstrings: Symmetry, Membranes and the Theory of Everything
by John Gribbin
Review:
The perfect place to start for the quantum mechanics layman. By personal opinion, I feel that John Gribbin is much more clearer in expanation than Brain Greene (The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Elegant Universe), in that he chooses very carefully the scope and depth of his content. As a result, you know only what is needed to understand the next point, and so on. However, it might have a reverse effect. Certain concepts aren’t easy at all (for e.g. renormalization, gauge theories), so in a sense, Gribbin allows for difficult concepts to enter with clearer and more control over the depth of coverage. This would allow the reader to know fairly more about everything, rather than just know the gist very well.
For individuals who already know a fair bit about QM, geeks, semi-geeks, concerned “sciency” people who await the data from the LHC, this book surprisingly elucidates difficult QM concepts even further (for example, field theories, uncertainty principle etc). A very, very good read.
Treehugger
In Uncategorized on April 8, 2008 at 12:57 pmCame across this website. Its highly informative, packed with guides on how to go green, green news in Science and Technology, Food and Health etc, gift ideas, great external links. Do check it out and get it bookmarked.
Enjoy!
The Unforeseen
In Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Gavin Smith, Film Comment
“Laura Dunn’s The Unforeseen is a rare gift. Plainspoken yet urgent, it makes the wrist-slashingly depressing topic of real-estate development somehow transcendent. The Unforeseen is the movie An Inconvenient Truthwanted to be.”
and also, independently….
Lim Jun Ying, Film Comment
“Ah well, I’m an environmentalist. However, I like looking at things from different perspectives. So here’s the perspective of a real-estate developer who struggled to make things happen, and his dreams happen despite all the friction with the local community. All I’ve seen is the trailer, and I’m now pretty curious as to what the movie has to offer.”
Here’s the link to the synopsis,
http://theunforeseenfilm.com/blog/about/
and the trailer,
