for - unsustainable building

unsustainable building - See Preservation Green lab report cited above

Amy Westervelt und Kyle Pope fassen kurz und treffend die wichtigsten Desinformationstaktiken der Fossilindustrie zusammen: - Fossilindustrie als Garantin der Energiesicherheit - Gegensatz von Wirtschaft und Umwelt - Verbraucher:innen brauchen fossile Energien für ihren Lebensstandard - Fossilindustrien sind Teil der Lösung, nicht des Problems - Fossilindustrien als Wohltäterinnen und Sponsorinnen.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/climate-disinformation-explainer

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summary - Although Rick Ruben's field is music production, he shares his perspective on creativity

Hago alusión al perfil del profesor Andrés Lombana-Bermúdez, investigador, diseñador y educador que trabaja en la intersección entre tecnología, ciudadanía, y educación.

Su enfoque transdisciplinario y colaborativo, combinando métodos cualitativos, cuantitativos y computacionales lo pudimos apreciar en la clase de Métodos II, en dondese abordó de manera integral y colaborativa la complejidad de los ecosistemas mediáticos y las dinámicas digitales.

En este momento observo que al combinar métodos cualitativos, cuantitativos y computacionales, se puede obtener una comprensión más profunda y holística de fenómenos como las desigualdades digitales, los procesos de datificación y los nuevos alfabetismos.

Los Métodos cualitativos: Permiten explorar en profundidad las experiencias, percepciones y significados de los individuos en relación con los medios de comunicación y la tecnología digital. Estos métodos pueden incluir entrevistas, grupos focales, análisis de contenido y estudios de caso, entre otros.

Los métodos cuantitativos: Ofrecen la posibilidad de analizar grandes cantidades de datos y identificar patrones y tendencias en el uso de medios y tecnología digital. Esto puede incluir encuestas, análisis estadísticos y modelado de datos.

Los métodos computacionales: Permiten el análisis de datos a gran escala y la aplicación de técnicas avanzadas de minería de datos y aprendizaje automático para extraer información significativa de conjuntos de datos complejos. Esto puede incluir análisis de redes sociales, análisis de sentimientos y modelado predictivo.

Autores como Donna Haraway y Fernando Flores, junto con Andrés Lombana, mencionan que al integrar estos métodos, se puede obtener una comprensión más completa de los ecosistemas mediáticos y las dinámicas digitales, lo que a su vez puede informar políticas, prácticas y estrategias para abordar las desigualdades digitales y promover nuevos alfabetismos digitales en la sociedad.

Zwei neue Studien aufgrund einer genaueren Modellierung der Zusammenhänge von Erhitzung und Niederschlagen: Es lässt sich besser voraussagen, wie höhere Temperaturen die Bildung von Wolkenclustern in den Tropen und damit Starkregenereignisse fördern. Außerdem lässt sich erfassen, wie durch die Verbrennung von fossilen Brennstoffen festgesetzten Aerosole bisher die Niederschlagsmenge in den USA reduziert und damit einen Effekt der globalen Erhitzung verdeckt haben.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000208852/klimawandel-sorgt-fuer-staerkeren-regen

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Studie: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj6801

Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45504-8

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Der grönländische Eisschild verliert aufgrund der globalen Erhitzung 30 Millionen Tonnen Eis pro Stunde und damit 20% mehr als bisher angenommen. Manche Forschende fürchten, dass damit das Risiko eines Kollaps des Amoc größer ist als bisher angenommen. Der Eisverlust ist außerdem relevant für die Berechnung des Energie-Ungleichgewichts der Erde durch Treibhausgas-Emissionen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/greenland-losing-30m-tonnes-of-ice-an-hour-study-reveals

Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06863-2.epdf?sharing_token=iqz0ns4_X6P1af3896jdntRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Pcew_aMz7qHMDjrF_9OLTexA24mQs8ERV-259eCQry-G1-OcR886jfHOICrWGcm8cGg2VLBlaWiYSzX6VygthHh72iiwkk1tHZcLD1G1oJIqdPha0A1oTMHLlfMAnTQrtd8PDFsj4xKAmTnOSL-6mrcbTbHbswhJaFji9IbAnyGW2pLAYwREeh-QWIL9xUFdsDBojJhNYWYoijtYUQx5YCyfzCJPGOEtlLO_PeIU9Tip8BaF24vqXfHcmad2_vz5eg0jcny8HHzO0uvDtSh_Bhym1eC8D25wZM6uZZ5vH9BA%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.theguardian.com

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"snowflake yeast," was able to evolve multicellularity over 3,000 generations.

reference - https://ratclifflab.biosci.gatech.edu/current-projects/

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• comment

  • in some sense, life is the ultimate potential laboratory and the labs in science are variants of the laboratory of life.

By the way this an example of an excellent lab website/research section with different pointers for different scientific fields and general public also!

• for: synergies

-comment - already many groups with same idea. Let’s converge then all.

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Lihit Lab Smart Fit Carrying Pouch - A6 - Olive<br /> $21.50

• potential progress trap

  • in vivo, an animal body has a mechanism to turn off stem cells when they are growing in the wrong place in the body. This regulates the body to grow properly.
  • in lab grown meat, an artificial in vitro environment is created for the stem cells and they are encouraged to keep growing continuously (some critics compare this to cancerous growth)
  • for UNKNOWN REASONS, FSB seems to prevent the mechanism from turning off cell growth, no matter what animal food species.
  • the worrying thing here is that the scientific community does not know why FSB has this behavior.

• Question

  • What are the views of the regulatory agencies that have passed Lab grown meat on this subject?

• potential progress trap
  • FBS
    • Fetal Bovine Serum

• This is used for the growth of all kinds of stem cells, not just those from cows

  • We do not know the full implications of mixing FBS from cows with all other species

• Question

  • What are the views of the regulatory agencies that have passed Lab grown meat on this subject?

• FBS volumes needed for a single lab grown burger are impractical
  • an estimated 50 liters of bovine serum is needed
  • a single cow fetus can yield between 150 and 550 milliliters of serum
  • this means that to create a single burger you need the blood of between 90 and 333 cow fetuses until a synthetic or plant-based alternative to fbs is found

• potential progress trap
  • if the seed stem cell has some unknown problem
    • it will potentially be inherited by all descedents

• Title
  • Lab grown meat
• Author
  • Real Science
• Publication
  • Youtube video

• Question
  • where are the progress traps?
  • It's already meeting approvals in SIngapore and FDA in USA.
  • Where are the hidden problems? -
  • This article highlights some of the issues
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Flab-grown-meat-has-a-big-problem-very-few-people-know-about&group=world

• target volume for lab grown meat in USA
  • 40 million pounds of meat across USA

• Title
  • Eat Just To Scale Up Cultured Meat Production On Gaining New Regulatory Approval In Singapore
• Author
  • Douglas Yu
• Publication
  • Forbes

• Date

  • Jan 18, 2023

• Description

  • This story updates what is happening in the lab brown meat industry.

• Comment

  • What progress traps might present themselves here?
  • Immediately, one presents itself
    • Centralization of global meat production to a few technological silos
    • Significant job loss in the meat industry

• The researchers say that
  • it would make more sense to invest in increasing the efficiencies of existing livestock farms
    • to limit their environmental footprint,
  • which may provide greater emissions reductions sooner that this fledgling industry of lab-grown meat can.

• sustainability life cycle assessment impacts
  • University of California, Davis (UCD), Holtville researchers performed a life-cycle assessment of current meat-growing processes
    • has not yet been peer-reviewed
    • findings are that cultured meat production could emit between four to 25 times more carbon dioxide per kilogram than regular beef and all its hidden costs, depending on the techniques used.
    • Pros
      • cultured meat uses less land than herds of cattle or flocks of sheep,
      • cultured meat uses less water and antibiotics,
    • Cons
      • laboratories to extract growth factors from animal serums,
      • growing crops for sugars and vitamins.
      • energy required to purify all of these broth ingredients to a high standard before they can be fed to the growing meat lumps.
        • energy-intensive, extreme level of purification is needed to prevent introducing microbes to the culture.
          • "Otherwise the animal cells won't grow, because the bacteria will multiply much faster,

• Title
  • Lab-Grown Meat Has a Big Problem Very Few People Know About
• Author
  • Tessa Koumoundouros
• Publication
  • Science Alert
• Date June 2, 2023

The = World Inequality Lab - is co-directed by Thomas Piketty,

reply to u/stjeromeslibido at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/10nlu4l/comment/j6bdgma/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I've used data from my own cards to create timelines before using the Knightlab's TimelineJS tool: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=18QD2-Kx0WdFBzqDv1sTkQWOJLGHGXsvr4NBLYNiX9FA&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650%27%20width=%27100%%27%20height=%27650%27%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20allowfullscreen%20frameborder=%270%27

You'll note that it's got a fun card-like flavor to its design. 🤩

Historically, while they had certainly done so much earlier, historians began doubling down on slip-based research work flows in the late 1800's. Many in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were heavily influenced by the idea of "historical method" or the German "Wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens". Primary sources going back over a century have included:

• Bernheim, Ernst. Lehrbuch der historischen Methode und der Geschichtsphilosophie : mit Nachweis der wichtigsten Quellen und Hilfsmittelzum Studium der Geschichte ... völlig neu bearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. 1889. Reprint, Leipzig : Duncker, 1903. http://archive.org/details/lehrbuchderhisto00bernuoft.
• Langlois, Charles Victor, and Charles Seignobos. Introduction to the Study of History. Translated by George Godfrey Berry. First. New York: Henry Holt and company, 1898. http://archive.org/details/cu31924027810286.
• Dow, Earle Wilbur. Principles of a Note-System for Historical Studies. New York: Century Company, 1924.
• Barzun, Jacques, and Henry F. Graff. The Modern Researcher. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1957. http://archive.org/details/modernreseracher0000unse.
• Eco, Umberto. How to Write a Thesis. Translated by Caterina Mongiat Farina and Geoff Farina. 1977. Reprint, Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2015. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-write-thesis.

A few prime examples of historians practicing this sort of card index method (though not necessarily in the same form as Niklas Luhmann) include:

• Thomas, Keith. “Diary: Working Methods.” London Review of Books, June 10, 2010. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n11/keith-thomas/diary.
• Pomeroy, Earl. “Frederic L. Paxson and His Approach to History.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 39, no. 4 (1953): 673–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/1895394.
• Aldrich, Chris. “S.D. Goitein’s Card Index (or Zettelkasten).” BoffoSocko (blog), January 15, 2023. https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/14/s-d-goiteins-card-index-or-zettelkasten/.
• Lustig, Jason. “‘Mere Chips from His Workshop’: Gotthard Deutsch’s Monumental Card Index of Jewish History.” History of the Human Sciences 32, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 49–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695119830900.
• Goutor, Jacques. The Card-File System of Note-Taking. Approaching Ontario’s Past 3. Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 1980. http://archive.org/details/cardfilesystemof0000gout.
• Margolin, Victor. The Process of Writing World History of Design, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxyy0THLfuI.

Margolin's short video is particularly lovely for its incredible depth despite its brevity.

Beyond this there is also a very rich history of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, and others in the humanities using similar methods.

Beatrice Webb has a fairly good description of how she created her "scientific notes" in the late 1880/1890s in a database-like fashion in the appendix to her memoir My Apprenticeship and expanded on some of the ideas in a more specific text a few years later.

• Webb, Beatrice. My Apprenticeship. First Edition. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1926.
• Webb, Sidney, and Beatrice Webb. Methods of Social Study. London; New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1932. http://archive.org/details/b31357891.

https://geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/

https://genizalab.princeton.edu/pgp-database/technical-history

Overview of the technical portions of the Princeton Geniza Lab operatioins.

https://genizalab.princeton.edu/about/history-princeton-geniza-lab/goitein-and-his-lab

https://genizalab.princeton.edu/about/history-princeton-geniza-lab/text-searchable-database

Mark R. Cohen and A. L. Udovitch made the arrangements for copies of S.D. Goitein's card index, transcriptions and photocopies of fragments to be made and kept at Princeton before the originals were sent to the National Library of Israel. This repository was the birth of the Princeton Geniza Lab.

Zinger, Oded. “Finding a Fragment in a Pile of Geniza: A Practical Guide to Collections, Editions, and Resources.” Jewish History 32, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 279–309. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10835-019-09314-6.

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An overview of sources and repositories for fragments from the Cairo Geniza with useful bibliographies for the start of Geniza studies. Of particular interest to me here is the general work of Shelomo Dov Goitein and his 27,000+ card zettelkasten containing his research work on it. There's some great basic description of his collection in general as well as some small specifics on what it entails and some reasonable guide as to how to search it and digital versions at the Princeton Geniza Lab.

Much like earlier scribal errors, there are textual errors inserted into digitization projects which may have gone from documentary originals, into handwritten (translated) copies, which then were copied manually via typewriter, and then copied again into some digital form, and then changed again into other digital forms as digital formats changed.

As a result it is often fruitful to be able to compare the various versions to see the sorts of errors which each level of copying can introduce. One might suppose that textual errors were only common when done by scribes using manual techniques, but it is just as likely for errors to be inserted between digital copies as well.

S.D. Goitein's index cards have been imaged and transcribed and added to the Princeton Geniza Lab as of May 2018. Digital search and an index are also available.

https://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2023/

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/this-is-the-year-of-the-rss-reader-really/

meh... there's nothing new or nuanced here... Nieman could have done better on this topic.

A good list of tactics to communicate about innovation. For example,

• publish blogs, guides, videos with concrete tips,
• create a pool of champions
• basic education programs that help solve problems on the job

One could also think about a "virtual innovation" lab approach ...

• Government policy innovation
• Public services innovation (including service design and digital)
• Science and technology — governments employ thousands of scientists, engineers and researchers. Labs can think of ways for them to become more effective.
• Management systems innovation — “innovate” how government innovates to build skills, capacity and culture.

The article speaks about that "Management systems innovation" -- the way howe we build skills, capacity and culture -- is a key element for successful attempts for governments to innovation.

Concentrating on these aspects -- howe we work together, how we develop skills and capacity -- might be the key ingredients for a future for the OpenLab -- and the future of the innovation activities.

Maybe we could start offering "services" from the "OpenLab" to managers and teams ...?

This seems to be the key element here: systems-thinking approach and thinking about our role within our departments.

So while something like an OpenLab can create value, it's not sufficient to bring in more innovation.

One could also put it this way: Instead of trying to become "the innovation lab" in our organization, why not use the group as a room where we can discuss how we bring innovation individually to our groups.

https://genizalab.princeton.edu/projects/books

https://genizalab.princeton.edu/pgp-database/about

https://genizalab.princeton.edu/about/history-princeton-geniza-lab

Keyword for this entire letter. The FDA finds no adulterants per this consultation and report provided by Upside Foods.

For Upside Food's report see: https://www.fda.gov/media/163262/download

Barnes, O., & Payne, S. (2021, October 15). Covid testing suspended at private UK lab over potentially inaccurate results. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/bee7bdde-e37b-4411-afd5-1e8ceacfa5f8

Beecher, J. (2021, October 30). I raised an early alarm on PCR test scandal but authorities ignored me. OpenDemocracy. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/i-raised-an-early-alarm-on-pcr-test-scandal-but-authorities-ignored-me/

Cohen, J. (2021, August 27). COVID-19’s origins still uncertain, U.S. intelligence agencies conclude. Science. https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-s-origins-still-uncertain-us-intelligence-agencies-conclude

https://evictionlab.org/

Beatrice Webb studied the effects of the British "principles of 1834" and how they were carried out (differently) from area to area to see the overall effects through 1907. The result of her study apparently showed what a poor policy it had been to the point that no one mentioned the old "principles of 1834" again.

How might this sort of sociological study be carried out on the effects of laws within the United States now in terms of economics and equality for various movements like redlining, abortion, etc.? Is anyone doing this sort of work?

There is an example of the Eviction Lab at Princeton has some of this sort of data and analysis. https://evictionlab.org/map

"Labs should be a beacon of insight and knowledge". And: a(ny) "normal" team can work like a lab.

Page to order Wetlab ware from France, shipping within one day.

Are they really the ones pushing the progress and innovating, or are they benefiting from filtering out only the highest level potential producers and simply supporting them?

Would we get more overall benefit from raising the level of the ocean so that all boats rise instead of a select few?

Another example, how was Hungary able to produce so many Nobel Prize winners?

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Orent 10.28.2021, W. (2021, October 28). Why I Still Believe Covid-19 Could Not Have Originated in a Lab. Undark Magazine. https://undark.org/2021/10/28/opinion-why-covid-19-could-not-have-originated-in-a-lab/

Lib-Lab : a member of the British Liberal party in the late 19th century belonging to or supporting the trade-union movement

Talking about the 1820s. Early origins of giving watches to long time employees.

Maxmen, A. (2021). Divisive COVID ‘lab leak’ debate prompts dire warnings from researchers. Nature, 594(7861), 15–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01383-3

Young people demand vaccination requirements for reopening—Axios. (n.d.). Retrieved May 29, 2021, from https://www.axios.com/vaccination-work-school-reopening-poll-7e8c2e4e-54b4-4831-8e51-146f13a26ca3.html

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2021, May 17). this is important because it means that lab based studies looking at this tell you meaningful things about real world efficacy—And the lab based studies are much quicker than real world ones. [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1394276693335019525

Mathot, Sebastiaan, and Jennifer March. ‘Conducting Linguistic Experiments Online with OpenSesame and OSWeb’. PsyArXiv, 10 February 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wnryc.

Shih, G., & Rauhala, E. (n.d.). After Wuhan mission on pandemic origins, WHO team dismisses lab leak theory. Washington Post. Retrieved 10 February 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-who-china-investigation-wuhan/2021/02/09/2af3c44c-6a79-11eb-a66e-e27046e9e898_story.html

American Psychological Association. (2020). Adapting your research methods in response to COVID-19.

to read

Yeolekar, M. (2020, April 30). The Digital Migration: Lessons About Open Science Arising from the COVID19 Crisis. The Official PLOS Blog. https://theplosblog.plos.org/2020/04/the-digital-migration-lessons-about-open-science-arising-from-the-covid19-crisis/

Mickes, L. (2020, April 2). A recipe for moving your physical lab to the online lab. Psychonomic Society Featured Content. https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/a-recipe-for-moving-your-physical-lab-to-the-online-lab/

About us. (n.d.). Retrieved May 5, 2020, from /wps/wcm/connect/Site/CovidCrisisLab/Home/About+us

Imperial researchers develop lab-free COVID-19 test with results in less than an hour. (n.d.). Science|Business. Retrieved April 20, 2020, from https://sciencebusiness.net/network-updates/imperial-researchers-develop-lab-free-covid-19-test-results-less-hour

Very interesting way to validate correlative phenotypes in communities

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reaction mechanisms

maybe discuss this chapter in the beginning of the semester would be helpful for the lab

As per the linked post:

Using Snow’s essay as a jumping off point, I want to consider a problem that’s been on my mind a great deal since joining the MIT Media Lab five years ago: how do we help smart, well-meaning people address social problems in ways that make the world better, not worse?

Not to defend Ethan, but he’s typically quite explicit about such thing. At least, he doesn’t evade responsibility.

From his about page (also in narrative version in the Do Not Track doc):

Those annoying pop-up windows? My fault, at least in part. I designed a vertically-oriented popup window that included navigation tools and an ad for inclusion on webpages at some point in late 1996 or early 1997. It was intended to be less intrusive than inserting an ad into the middle of a user’s homepage. I won’t claim responsibility (irresponsibility?) for inventing the damned things, and I disclaim any responsibility for cascading popups, popups that move to the top, and those annoying “bot” windows that open different popups every few minutes. Still, the fault is at least in part mine, and I’m sorry. :-)

My paper!