Gathering data at the calving front of the Ilulissat Glacier, GreenlandDenise Holland, CC BYCurious passersby press their faces up to my lab’s window in lower Manhattan as our rotating table swings into action.
The author at his NYU New York Environmental Fluid Dynamics Lab, street level.Denise Holland
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Be nice.Office workers via www.shutterstock.com.We experience rudeness and incivility all the time. From simple insults and offhand remarks to purposely excluding others from groups, these behaviors are largely tolerated in our daily lives and in the workplace. The question is, what effect do these behaviors have on us?
It’s pretty clear that...
In bank stress tests, what's worse: runs or lemons (the other kind)? Lemons via www.shutterstock.comAt the height of the financial crisis, in February 2009, US authorities announced an innovative policy designed to restore confidence in the financial system: the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, better known as the stress test.
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Wind farms: the public likes them, Tony Abbott doesn't.Alan Porritt/AAPIf Bill Shorten and his climate spokesman Mark Butler can’t sell Labor’s proposal for Australia to have 50% of its electricity provided by renewable energy by 2030, they should probably vacate the political persuasion game.
They start with the advantage that...
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