Via Powerline’s Week in Pictures
or Any Other Earth/Life Science, but I’ve been considering a few things I’d like to open up for discussion. The small brown tree frog population has exploded and I just don’t know enough about amphibian reproductive biology to say this with any authority but I think it has something to do with the lack of
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I received a THIRD– 3rd– polling call today just moments ago, at 8:19pm. I understand that in a state with a population of fewer than 3M people our phone number is bound to come up more frequently in a “random” survey of voters than in, say, Ohio. But Dude. Three calls in one day? I didn’t
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You probably think a good soaking rain shower cools things off a bit on a hot summer day, don’t you? Well, I’m here to testify that’s not always the case. When cold water hits a hot surface the properties of both the water and the surface change. Or as we like to say here in
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As you know, I like numbers. Numbers are welcome here at the Farm. Some of us like them more than others, but we all like numbers to one degree or another. (Recall, Tiger’s highrise is 412 1/4… and we’re still adding on: 412 3/4 is bound to be a destination.) Every now and again an
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In the last few days some so-called “conservatives” have informed me that collecting meta-data is nothing to worry about. No biggie, you libertarian-contitution-loving-reason-reading dears- bless-your-pea-pickin’ hearts. The Government just wants to keep you safe! The Government isn’t really listening to your silly phone conversations or keeping track of what looney-tune web sites you visit on
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Just kidding– but I am going to Memphis! Mr. Big Food just walked in and asked, “What is the probability of drawing at least one ace and at least one ❤ in two draws from a fair deck.” And I asked, “With or without replacement?” “Without,” he said. Forget flowers and candy and jewelry, this is the
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I would have been all about Victory Gardens and seeds and Martin Luther the original, MLK, Sr., and Jr. and a bit of history this weekend. But I was busy (re-)learning stuff. Check it out! “L” axes. It only took me three days to figure that out. Surprisingly, memory on data structure came back much quicker
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Miss M and I really did go to Our State Capital the other day, but we didn’t stay. Daughter C and Mr. Big Food really did go to Hotlanta. Oh! What stories they brought home. (They showered upon their return, ensuring that stories were the only things they brought home.) But that was last week.
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Life is pretty amazing, isn’t it? On any given day in May, June, July, August, September or October the ambient air temperature can be 98 °F or greater in Mississippi. Take a look at these 48 data points. Consider different pairs of monthly high & low records: -5 & 85 (Jan.); 54 & 107 (August).
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I read somewhere that between one-third and one-half of American Colonists were either actively sympathetic to the Rule of The Crown and the status quo, or were such low information subjects that they weren’t even paying attention to Thomas Paine. How one would go about gathering data on the attitudes of folks in the 1770s
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From the Preface to Junior Business Training by Frederick G. Nichols (American Book Company, New York, 1923) a text book for “boys and girls in junior high schools.” The book has two parts, the first aimed at every one, “regardless of his vocational aim.” Page 16: Cash Account. The task, as illustrated above, was to
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Daughter C sent me a link to an article with some photos of crappy old stuff — no, “crappy old stuff” is reserved for stuff I like. There was nothing to like about what was pictured. The article, by one Brian Galindo, begins: Last week, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down Section
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via Instapundit.com: BIG DATA: Study: Facebook Likes Can Be Used to Determine Intelligence, Sexuality. Simply by delving into volunteers’ Likes, the researchers could determine in 95 percent of cases whether a person was Caucasian or African American and in 88 percent of cases whether the person was heterosexual or homosexual. They could determine whether the
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For your amusement, via Breitbart: Full image here Wonder what becomes of the other half?
via NRO’s The Corner. It’s probably going to rain for the next couple of days and there’s only so much rain-watching a body can do. How much fun am I going to have looking at these data? First thought? Moving from Ohio Oiho Oihi to Mississippi That Landmass was a very smart move. Second thought?
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Mr. Big Food and I put up 12 pints and three quarts of four different kinds of pickled things this afternoon. It took about four hours– we are experienced and efficient picklers. Music was playing in the background and we seldom run out of extraneous things to chat about, e.g., poor Randy. We guess he’s
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Over a month ago, I realized I didn’t know where my Little Orange Book was. I looked, I asked, and yes, I accused. Who would have stolen my Little Orange Book from me? Today, I am pleased to report that my Little Orange Book has been found and retrieved from behind the bookshelf thanks to
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Read this: Math Is Hard “Most people killed or wounded in stray-bullet shootings were unaware of events leading to the gunfire that caused their injuries, and nearly one-third of the victims were children and nearly half were female, according to a new nationwide study examining an often-overlooked form of gun violence,” according to a
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The average American, who should consume about 2,000 calories a day, eats out six times a week. The second real sentence in an article by Margo Wootan at The Hill, “Eating in the dark can be dangerous.” Reading sentences like this automatically causes me to go into statistician geek mode. (Haha. That was a statistics
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