Daily Archives: November 27, 2010

University Land Use – Part II (Columbia, NYU, Stanford and UC-Irvine)

One would normally distinguish between a Land Use Plan (LUP), which involves zoning issues, occupancy densities, building heights and green space, from the universities’ policy on what to do with the development that accompanies it.

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Doubt is our product

In a recent book, “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming”, US historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway take on those they say have sown doubt about … Continue reading

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Love in the age of algorithms

  “Is Math replacing independent thought”, screams the front page of today’s Globe and Mail (the title has been mercifully changed since this morning!). It is simply hard to believe that such a silly article can be written and published. … Continue reading

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