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SUBMISSION DEADLINE MAY 1, 2018 The upcoming Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference (FUR 2018) is being held at the University of York, UK from Monday 25 June to Thursday 28 June. FUR conferences were started in Oslo in 1982 by Ole Hagen and Maurice Allais, and have been held every two years since. It is a highly prestigious conference with many […]
ACROSS ALL TIMES, DAYS, AND PLACES We were up at Yale the other week guest lecturing for Shane Frederick, who always hits us up with trivia questions. Here’s one question he asked us: What’s the average temperature on the earth? That is, what’s the average surface temperature over all places on the earth (inhabited or […]
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HOW DIGITIZATION CHANGES BEHAVIOR AND BUSINESS There will be a pre-conference on Digitized Behavior at Boston University, right before the 2018 BDRM conference. Each talk examines how digitization changes behavior and business. Speakers: Adrian Ward, University of Texas at Austin Alix Barasch, New York University Andrey Fradkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Avi Goldfarb, University of […]
1.6 MILLION SQUARE KILOMETERS OF GARBAGE IN PERSPECTIVE This Nature Scientific Reports article gives an update on the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is estimated to be four to 16 times larger than previously estimated: 1.6 million square kilometers. While the article does show the patch along with latitude and longitude lines […]
