Several papers name the New York Community Trust as the grant giver. Is there a significant increase in grants for research ? That would be an clear indication of a turning point: more grants, more and better research, more exposure, more credibilty.
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > All of the pre-prints were distributed on a flash card. I will upload them > when I return. Krivit has already done so, I see. > > I don't see why you say "sheesh" about him. He is being helpful. > > Krivit did not attend the conference. > > This was a well organized conference. The organizers demanded that authors > turn in a preprint before the conference. I have never seen them do that. I > approve of the idea. In the past some have been a year or two late. > > They gave the authors another month to write a final version. > > I was the only one who failed to turn in a pre-print, because they only > asked me a week or two before the conference. They included me on Friday in > the "commercialization" section. The other papers presented then were pretty > good. A lot more technical, detailed and less speculative than previous > presentations on this subject. > > I quibbled with Kleehous because they did not take into account the dollar > value of embedded energy, which exceeds the direct cost. I.e.; it takes 1 or > 2 liters of gasoline to produce 500 g of meat (depending on the type of > meat). > > - Jed >
