Most smartphones not only have cameras, but will attach GPS coordinates to the EXIF file, readily used for mapping. But the camera quality is varied.\ My iPod Touch 4th gen camera is not very good (5th should be much better)...
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A link to my other blog, The Scholar's Survival Manual, a post on Interpreting Statistical Evidence, from Stevenson and Wolfers by way of Alex Tabarrok. See 2 May 2013 post....
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Intelligence and US Foreign Policy, Paul Pillar War and Decision, Douglas Feith What was in Donald Rumsfeld's mind when he demanded that the Iraq war would be launched with a much smaller number of troops than recommended by General Shinsheki?...
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While economic ideas have come to pervade much of the discussion in planning, ideas from FINANCE have not. The basic idea in modern finance theory is hedging risks, modeling uncertainty by a random walk, insisting that the market does not...
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I started another blog, The Scholar's Survival Manual, http://scholarssurvival.blogspot.com a propos of my new book due out this coming Fall. I will be posting my more general observations there, while putting my observations on planning and ideas here....
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I just saw that amazon.com is offering my Scholar's Survival Manual for $16.50 rather than $25.00. I believe it will prove useful for undergraduates and doctoral graduate students, all the way through assistant professors, deans, and even provosts. It's practical,...
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City planning is a vital part of modern society. The problems and intellectual challenges we face are wonderful. But if you read the journals in our field, however you conceive of them, you will find them wanting when compared to...
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I am now splitting up my blog into two threads. I have a book coming out this coming Fall, The Scholar's Survival Manual, from Indiana University Press. Those concerns, much as they dominated this blog, will now be transferred to...
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I was reading a survey on congestion pricing of roads. Help me understand why the following analogy is inappropriate. In some fields the number of strong papers submitted to the main journals is larger than they can accommodate (given the...
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I am ashamed to admit that I have no idea what people mean by SUSTAINABLE. I know technically what they might mean: ongoing action that does not have any built in self-destructive killers. Hence, sustainable energy production would presumably involve...
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