Environmental Informatics Tweets
Posted on August 15, 2010 | by Markus Stocker
I decided to start my first thematic Twitter account, on environmental informatics. You can find it @envinf. I’ll try to roll it out with regular updates on news, papers, books, journals, conferences, people, open positions, etc. around environmental informatics (and possibly related areas). However, the account is meant to be an experiment of group tweeting. [...]
To Bring News To A Boil
Posted on July 12, 2010 | by Markus Stocker
(And increase entropy along the way.) The pot was placed on the cooking stove shortly after noon with the brief announcement by NZZ that at 2pm CEST the Swiss justice minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will announce the decision regarding the U.S. request to extradite Polanski. Since, some French rejoice «Merci la Suisse! Bravo la Suisse!» while [...]
Twitter Is Not The World
Posted on July 1, 2010 | by Markus Stocker
Sunday I was back from three days without computer and any type of connectivity. Unusual circumstances, nowadays. I spent the days in a Finnish summer cottage that is built on top of a little rocky hill with a fabulous view on the Baltic sea located a good 30 minutes drive from the closest town where [...]
International Day Of Climate Action
Posted on October 24, 2009 | by Markus Stocker
Ahead of the UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen in December, today, is the International Day Of Climate Action, or 350, i.e. the “most important number in the world” aka the “safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” As far as I know we are now at 390 ppm carbon dioxide; guys, we need to [...]
