Ortiz, A. (2026, March 3). British Columbia moving to permanent daylight saving time, changing clocks for the last time Sunday. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/canada/daylight-savings-bc-time.html
Archive for the '–' Category
Hook for 11am oped
March 5, 2026Should we all be “house burping”?
March 5, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/what-is-house-burping-luften.html
It may improve your home air quality.
February 18, 2026
The German practice of “lüften” is gaining traction on social media.
How wolves became dogs
March 4, 2026https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-wolves-became-dogs
your flexible friend economist
How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
March 1, 2026How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-whatsapp-took-over-the-global-conversation
What is Latent Dirichlet allocation | IBM
March 1, 2026LDA resources
February 28, 2026Ganegedara, T. (2025, February 2). Intuitive Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Towards Data Science.
https://towardsdatascience.com/light-on-math-machine-learning-intuitive-guide-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation-437c81220158/
some blogs
https://johaupt.github.io/blog/Topic_modeling_with_Gibbs_sampling_in_R.html https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/lda-gibbs/
RFA – MPI/PI NIH limit
February 28, 2026the answer… from OSP…
The NIH limitation is by council round, rather than submission date. Council rounds can be found on the NIH standard due dates page: https://grants.nih.gov/grants-process/submit/submission-policies/standard-due-dates
Here is the policy info on the limitation:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-132.html
Some additional guidance (including a table to show which deadlines fit into which year) can be found on the OSP website: https://research-support.yale.edu/sponsored-projects/office-of-sponsored-projects/proposals
Calendar Year 2026
| Advisory Council Dates | Application Due Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5/25/25-9/7/25 | Not included in the count |
| May | 9/25/25-1/7/26 | Included in CY 26 count |
| August or October | 1/25/26-5/7/26 | Included in CY 26 count |
Calendar Year 2027
| Advisory Council Dates | Application Due Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5/25/26-9/7/26 | Included in CY 27 count |
| May | 9/25/26-1/7/27 | Included in CY 27 count |
| August or October | 1/25/27-5/7/27 | Included in CY 27 count |
Receipt dates:
9/25/2025-5/7/26 6 max
Receipt dates:
5/25-2026 -5/7/27 6 max
see you today at 1 pm for ARPA-H
February 27, 2026We don’t have anything like this in Connecticut, but [useful].
NYTimes: What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals
February 26, 2026How Jane Austen revealed the economic basis of society
February 26, 2026https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/12/how-jane-austen-revealed-the-economic-basis-of-society QT:{{” These numbers would all have meant something to Austen’s original readers, argues Mr Copeland, serving as a useful “shorthand” for rank and station. £100 a year was required to afford a single maidservant—“a stout girl of all works”. At £400, a household could employ a cook, housemaid and perhaps a boy servant.
Roughly £700-£1,000 a year was required to keep a carriage. With the help of Highbury’s hypochondriacs, this prize falls within the sights of Dr Perry in “Emma”. The higher income target of £2,000 is eventually met by Marianne in “Sense and Sensibility” when she marries Colonel Brandon. That amount will cover a “proper establishment of servants, a carriage, perhaps two”, and horses for hunting. To satisfy the greater demands of a Mary Crawford, eager for a second home in London, would take at least £4,000 a year. “}}
