Climategate: The future in the past

SoCal Sam — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:43:56 GMT

In a Dec. 1970 article titled: “Polar Ice and the Global Climate Machine” in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, page 40, author: Joseph O. Fletcher, the concern was that there was no model for the vast thermodynamic engine that was the atmosphere and oceans. That there appeared to be a potential influence by CO2 and other chemicals on the atmosphere, this was 40 years ago.

I would recommend that you take a look at this article (and the Bulletin of Atomic Sci if you are interested in the Climate modeling, it appears to me that it is the paper that asks the questions we are attempting to answer.

Interesting though that the article was written during a time where scientists sometimes would make recommendations that use engineering solutions.

ESP: Extra-Sensory Perception or Embodied Social Proxies?

SoCal Sam — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:51:00 GMT

WTF? ESP? Satellite people? Is this a Coast to Coast show with George Noory for long haul truckers and insomniacs?

No, Embodied Social Proxies, this isn’t a problem that my team suffers from, even though we rarely meet in person, none of us work together in person or are collocated.

Embodied Social Proxies are for teams that are mostly collocated, and this article is certainly worth taking a look at if you are thinking about developing a system to support teams that most work together and have one or two people who are working remotely.

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Climategate: The future in the past

ESP: Extra-Sensory Perception or Embodied Social Proxies?