These are painful times for those hoping to see an international consensus and substantive action on global warming. In the US, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said in June 2011: “The…
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What do iPhones, Twitter, Netflix, cleaner cities, safer cars, state-of-the-art environmental management and modern medical diagnostics have in common? They are all made possible by Moore’s Law. Moore’s…
Assessing risk is something everyone must do every day. Yet few are very good at it, and there are significant consequences of the public’s collective inability to accurately assess risk. As a first and…
THE STATE OF SCIENCE: Fraud is the exception not the rule in science, but it happens, as one recent high-profile case showed. How does this occur, and what can mathematics bring to the equation? Jon Borwein…
Let’s talk numbers for a moment. The moon is approximately 384,000 kilometres away, and the sun is approximately 150 million kilometres away. The mean distance between Earth and the sun is known as the…
During a lunch in the summer of 1950, physicists Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller and Herbert York were chatting about a recent New Yorker cartoon depicting aliens abducting trash cans in flying saucers. Suddenly…
While adding up your grocery bill in the supermarket, you’re probably not thinking how important or sophisticated our number system is. But the discovery of the present system, by unknown mathematicians…
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Assistant Professional Researcher in Transportation, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern/South Asian Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis
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Daniel Sperling is a Friend of The Conversation.
Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
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Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Communication, University of California, Davis
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Research Affiliate in Human Ecology, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
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Co-director, STEPS (Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways), University of California, Davis
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Research Affiliate in Legal and Political Philosophy, University of California, Davis
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Senior Development Engineer, institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis
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Doctoral Student and Provost's Research Fellow, University of California, Davis
