John Perich wrote:
. . . here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn out,
making all research into sustainability and environmental / resource
economics a waste of time. . . .
Not a complete waste; the study will be useful toward
setting up ecosystems elsewhere.
--
Anton
JP wrote:
Actually, no, here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn
out,
making all research into stainability and environmental / resource
economics a waste of time. There's an obvious connection to entropy right
there.
-JP
As long as environmental and resource economics
Gustavo Lacerda:
You would think that smart employers would know to rate a B+ student
from a tough-grading school more favorably than an A- student from an
easy-grading school. But there are too many schools, and most employers
aren't using a national database of with statistics about each
It seems to me that an effective remedy to grade inflation would be
standardized exams on the subjects taught, prior to graduation. There would
be, for example, a standard exam for econ majors, similar to what is done in
grad schools. If many universities used the same exams, then that would
Because I don't agree with
that, I'm looking for
profound arguments against that costly influence.
From Jean Bricmont's essay Science of Chaos or Chaos
in Science in _The Flight From Science and Reason_,
ed. Paul Gross, et al:
As discussed in Penrose [R. Penrose, 'The Emperor's
New Mind'
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:10:59AM -0700, Fred Foldvary wrote:
Entropy says a closed system will dissipate into unavailable energy.
Entropy applies to open systems too. The way it works is, a given energy
source (the sun) and heat sink (outer space) allows you to remove so many
bits of entropy
It's a bad thing but one reason is maybe that Universities would not want
to be compared to each other in terms of test scores. Tests are hardcore
evidences of which school is good and which school is not.
At 09:00 AM 4/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:
It seems to me that an effective remedy to grade
--- Anton Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Perich wrote:
. . . here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn out,
making all research into sustainability and environmental / resource
economics a waste of time. . . .
But what is the present value of something 6 billion
It seems to me that an effective remedy to grade inflation would be
standardized exams on the subjects taught, prior to graduation. There would
be, for example, a standard exam for econ majors, similar to what is done in
grad schools. If many universities used the same exams, then that
