Back in April, while still at LLNL, I was working on a proposed project to improve methods and observations for fossil fuel emissions verification (FFEV). AB32, California’s landmark climate change legislation, requires fossil fuel emissions verification, as well as including mandatory source reporting. Part of FFEV is modeling where emissions are transported by winds. [...]
The Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF) is launching a new peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal — the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: Research, Education, & Practice. The first edition is scheduled for August. As co-chair of the MTF’s Best Practices Committee, I submitted a 33 page paper to the editor today covering the committee’s work [...]
My last post quoted from Siegfried Hecker’s testimony on 30 April 2008 before the Water and Energy subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Hecker’s statement on risk aversion reminded me of a Science editorial by Harold T. Shapiro, “The Willingness to Risk Failure”. Shapiro opened the editorial, drawn from a prior commencement address, with:
Let me [...]
