The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

The researchers had already shown that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period. However, despite the low energy cost of mental work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests. This represents a 23.6% and 29.4 % [...]

They take the computational fluid dynamics models and then test them against the real world. With good results. But what’s with the production?

http://www.celsias.com/article/energy-crossroads/http://arxivblog.com/?p=596 Implications: I think this might turn out to be the ultraviolet catastrophe of our era. It’s something which is entirely convenient to study in the lab so it should be highly replicable, and it’s weirder than all hell. Here’s hoping that it’s not some dopey measurement error due to something else which varies annually.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27grid.html Also discusses the nature, function and structure of the grid in interesting and relevant ways. Recommended reading for an overview of grid issues.

http://oddline.blogspot.com/2008/08/science-and-beer.html Looks like a legit study indicates that it might. Very interesting indeed.