Leaks Happen

Mapping urban pipeline leaks: methane leaks across Boston.

Natural gas is the largest source of anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH(4)) in the United States. To assess pipeline emissions across a major city, we mapped CH(4) leaks across all 785 road miles in the city of Boston using a cavity-ring-down mobile CH(4) analyzer. We identified 3356 CH(4) leaks with concentrations exceeding up to 15 times the global background level. Separately, we measure...

How does consciousness happen?

Oc tober 20 07 How brain processes translate to consciousness is one of the greatest unsolved questions in science. Although the scientific method can delineate events immediately after the big bang and uncover the biochemical nuts and bolts of the brain, it has utterly failed to satisfactorily explain how subjective experience is created. As neuroscientists, both of us have made it our life’s ...

Making Security Awareness Happen

INTRODUCTION This article focuses on the first step of providing computer and information system security — developing and implementing an effective security awareness program. One might wonder why security awareness is not considered the same as training. The simple answer: because the desired outcome of each is different. The goal of a security awareness program is to heighten the importance ...

Making Things Happen

We explore some logics of change, focusing on commands to change the world in such a way that certain elementary propositions become true or false. This investigation starts out from the following two simplifying assumptions: (1) the world is a collection of facts (Wittgenstein), and (2), the world can be changed by changing elementary facts (Marx). These assumptions allow us to study the logic...

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