Tempest Over Mexico. A Personal Chronicle

Personicle: Personal Chronicle of Life Events

This paper presents an overview and early results of our project to build a framework for integrating, aggregating, and analyzing heterogeneous personal data streams to build persona and use it to recognize evolving personal situation. Using increasing volumes of heterogeneous personal data streams, we recognize first movements and personal situations for providing individuals actionable inform...

A Scientific Tempest

Black carbon over Mexico

Black carbon over Mexico: the effect of atmospheric transport on mixing state, mass absorption cross-section, and BC/CO ratios R. Subramanian, G. L. Kok, D. Baumgardner, A. Clarke, Y. Shinozuka, T. L. Campos, C. G. Heizer, and B. B. Stephens Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO 80301, USA Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI 9...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Scientific realism is dead, or so many philosophers believe. Its death was announced when philosophers became convinced that one can accept all scientific results without committing oneself to metaphysical existence claims about theoretical entities (Fine 1986, 112). In addition, the inability of self–proclaimed scientific realists, despite recurrent demands, to distinguish themselves from thei...

Tap water tempest

You know the news isn’t going to be good when the report of a new study cites sources in City Hall rather than the scientific literature. That’s exactly how the story broke in February, reporting a link between tap water and miscarriages in a California study. On February 10, the Los Angeles Times warned its readers in a front page report that “drinking five or more glasses of cold tap water pe...