How to Critically Look at a Simple Graph Source: US Department of Education. Let’s pick this apart, shall we? Not in a snarky, negative way, but in a way to keep my brain in practice and to give you a few pointers on how to critically look at graphs. While I find it somewhat unbelievable
“Pardon me, Marica,” Missy began, “Do you have a moment?” “Why certainly, girl,” Marica replied, “What’s up?” “Ruff?” Rocky asked. “What are your thoughts on in me-dI-us rez?” “Ruff?!?” Rocky scoffed. “What?” “Me-dI-us rez. Surely you know that term, Marica,” Missy answered. “It’s a literary devise meaning ‘to being in the middle of things’.” “Ruffruffruff,”
A while back, Mr. Big Food forwarded to me an email he’d received from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. “For ‘Phen?” Mr. Big Food queried, “He needs to add some cell biology to his current educational regime.” I couldn’t agree more. I am not kidding– and this has been independently confirmed in the flesh by
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I do! Really, I do. I have a few minutes among the returning from travel day to the preparing for the next tailgate days to the preparing to travel days to just sit and think. Here are a few random thoughts, which technically speaking are not all that random as they are all mine. I
I get the sentiment. The gulf coast is a lovely location for a wedding. The sand is firm, the water is blue, there’s a breeze. But. There are spectators from conferences. Makes the whole spectacle sort of sacreligous.
I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of elementary textbooks. C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, 1944 I share this concern, but I have a question. Who is “we?”
How did this happen? How could I possibly have written over one thousand posts with no category? Here’s how. First, I wrote a post and forgot to categorize it. Then I did the same thing with another. After seven years of doing this, they start to add up! I don’t so much mind that I
That white stuff you see is snow, folks! And before the snow was freezing rain. 🙂 We stepped out to go to breakfast this morning and turned right around and ordered to go from the hotel restaurant. Fortunately, we have taken to traveling with out handy dandy mini electric kettle. And our own coffee, a
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This was Daughter C’s idea. We had, up in the workshop, a perfectly nice old enamel topped segment of kitchen cupboard that we brought with us from Cincinnati. It was in the basement in Cincy and we thought enough of it to tote it to Miss’ippi. Daughter C suggested that it might find purpose in
Over the next few months we– collectively all of us and our distant relatives, there is a wedding, afterall,– are going to be doing a lot of traveling. Kat just forwarded to me her American Airlines receipt email. It said Menu: Food for Purchase The first airplane ride I ever took was a short flight
I am over-run with books right now. And I have not, regrettably not, finished Spring Cleaning. That’s essential. That and the list for Daughter C. But Daughter C has caught the gardening bug. And so I am thinking about the garden, and trying to supplement Daughter C’s reading with some experience. Here we go. Miss
No animal has been subjected to a more careful study within recent yea than than the house fly. The reason for this is that the house fly distributes the germs of various diseases, thus causing the death of thousands of human beings every year. Practical Zoology. Robert W. Hegner. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1915. And
How long does it take to charge up the charger? https://www.ravpower.com/16w-foldable-solar-charger.html It boasts that it can convert ~25% of the sun’s energy onto electrons your devices want to devour at lickidy smart speed. The sun. Hahahaha. But how much sun does it take to charge the charger? This is measurable stuff. In my clime– Mississippi-
is, and has been, controversial. I think there’s an argument to be made for a government funded census. Further, if the government, as an entity, collects information– for whatever reason– that information ought to be publicly available. Amazingly, the IRS keeps pretty good records of aggregate data down to the county level. I remind you
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so I could read to him. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/ I’m just a country mouse but this cracked me up There is something called eigenvector centrality, which my friends in Natural Philosophy tell me is a bit of mathematics unlikely ever to have any practical application in the wider world LOL. Haha.
of Mr. & Mrs. Beaver’s lodge. So I thought I’d stop by and start up a conversation. … ” There are a number of ways to enter into this conversation. For example, if you hold a piece of paper, or your hand, over what is obviously neck, you will see a rabbit. For example, the