Built infrastructure is essential. Muller, et al, 2015. Review

Berkeley, Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:00 PM Annotations from Muller, M., Biswas, A., Martin-Hurtado, R. & Tortajada, C. 2015, “Built infrastructure is essential”, Science, vol. 349, no. 6248, pp. 585-586. Muller et al (2015) interestingly challenged promoted benefits North to South of green-infrastructure in fast developing countries, for water and energy development, in contrast to pragmatic effects that […]

River Basin Development Planning and Management. Barrow, 1998. Annotations.

Berkeley, Tuesday October 23, 2018 11:30 AM Annotations from Barrow, C.J., 1998. River basin development planning and management: A critical review. World development, 26(1), pp.171-186. The practice of development and management of river basin started in the 1930’s. It has been applied in various countries in the world, and according to Barrow (1998), the results […]

Chapter 1: Defining the best. What the best college teachers do. Bain, 2004.

Berkeley, Wednesday October 17, 2018 10:55 AM Chapter summary of chapter 1 of the book Bain, K., 2011. What the best college teachers do. Harvard University Press, pp. 1-21 Chapter 1. Introduction: Defining the best My take-aways Bain evaluated defined the best college professors not based on their performance in class, neither in the course evaluations, […]

Getting things done

Berkeley, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:43 AM Planning and scheduling, while important things, are not enough, as determination is it and a non-stop motion of continue working until accomplish targets. Delaying things is absolutely bad. Once delayed a bit, those things could be delayed forever. Perseverance, consistency, and getting good rest per day, are important […]

Food intake behavior as guest

Berkeley, Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:31 AM When invited as guest to a meal, better to be moderated in food intake served at the table. It is fine to accept to bring food home, but only if I am asked. It is not good to request for it. It is often very good to bring […]

Humble and concise

Berkeley, Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:58 AM This week, I have learned two important things, both were advices, but the second one was part of experience. Yesterday, in a discussion with Joe McBride, a Emeritus Professor who I admire, a topic regarding the preparation to the qualification exams was in the table. Joe has traveled […]

Hey, please do not hit your head

Berkeley, Friday, October 5, 2018 12:30 PM I have not paid fully attention to all the risk of heating my head, although, of course I have acknowledged how important and sensitive is it, as the brain is there, until learnt about further details about concussion. On September 24, I was diagnosed a mild concussion, 2 […]