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Voting analysis for the 19th Chopin Competition
Ben Laude made a YouTube video in which he interviewed Eugene Chan about his analysis of the voting of the 2025 19th Chopin Competition. I have thought a little about voting systems and the…
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- Thought, action and social-system models
- Consumption value and asset value
- Aphorisms and over-simplifications
- On prescriptive and normative statements in academic research papers
- Enough responsibility to go around
- Income inequality and climate damage: Relative impact on utility
- Addressing market failures in energy technology deployment and discovery
- Hydrogen production from curtailed generation
- Replenishing the wind
- High Energy Planet: Interview transcript
- Podcasts aimed at professionals in other professions
- Ocean acidification: A career journey from curiosity-driven science to a search for solutions
- Wagner scores on YouTube
2020
2019
- Comments on allocating resources to fusion-energy research and development
- Who is controlling who? The curious case of the algae and the sea anemone
- On learning to see the glass as half full
- Consumerism as addiction
- Carl Sagan Lecture by Ken Caldeira at the 2018 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting
- A proposal for recommending and ranking scientific literature
2018
- On choosing problems to work on
- What do you do when a poorly expressed idea is quoted out of context by people with a political agenda?
- Steps to writing a scientific paper based on model results
- How much ice is melted by each carbon dioxide emission?
- Looking for postdocs wanting to help facilitate a transition to a near-zero emission energy system
- Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States
- MZJ hydro explainer
2017
- Ocean heat flux and open ocean wind energy
- Imagine it is year 2100 and the world is a good place to be.
- Larsen C and solar geoengineering
- Red team, blue team
- Trump, climate, and energy
- Learning curves and clean-energy R&D: Follow the curve or try to leap?
- Will using a carbon tax for revenue generation create an incentive to continue CO2 emissions?
- Climate of risk and uncertainty
- Scientific reproducibility, communication of uncertainty, and the US House of Representatives
- Dark ages: Do you know what to do?
- Where do the winds come from?
- 2016 is Earth’s hottest year on record: A glimpse behind the Washington Post story
2016
- Time, books, and nice words from Mr. Gates
- Coffee and climate: A common problem
- Solving the coffee and climate problems
- Comment on the Dakota Access Pipeline
- Seeking money, asking to help
- What inspired you to get into the field of geoengineering?
- A comment on the proposal to close Indian Point nuclear power plant
- Bridging the urban-rural divide
- Managing Earth’s future: Self-restraint for the common good?
- Ordinary miracles
- Helping the oceans help us
- Writing an OpEd piece on ocean acidification for the Sydney Morning Herald
2015
- Statement at COP21, December 4, 2015
- Am I capable of not rejecting nuclear power?
- The Arctic is becoming warmer, and the ocean is becoming more acidic
- From an email to a friend, skeptical about the reality of human-induced climate change
- Play and hypothesis testing: From a note to my research group
- Reversal of radiocarbon flux into the ocean
- Do open discussion journals provide a service to the scientific community?
- What’s one initiative, project, or change in human behavior that’s crucial for fixing our planet?
- Advice for college undergraduates …
- Conspiracy trails …
- Fast, cheap and easy … and very dangerous
- On Alan Robock’s comments regarding the CIA and climate intervention
- Email to David Perlman for ‘Megadroughts’ story
- Getting nasty …