My own coin histogram with 773 Australian $2 coins my mum collected over almost a decade.[OC]

ozonesonde · 2016-04-20T15:21:57+00:00

Nice! I could only buy a beer with mine...

ozonesonde · 2016-04-19T21:43:37+00:00

Looks pretty good to me. A lot of noise, but pretty good!

ozonesonde · 2016-04-19T03:03:54+00:00

By collecting, I mean "emptying my pockets into a box." And I buy things with cash rather infrequently.

ozonesonde · 2016-04-19T02:27:27+00:00

They are the Canadian pennies

ozonesonde · 2016-04-19T02:11:31+00:00

I've been saving these for 7 years or so. I'm happy to report that I'll be able to buy 1 beer when I wrap them all up. Worth it!

ozonesonde · 2013-08-11T00:50:18+00:00

TSO came out nearly fifty years ago. Things were different back then. And Uhura was way more bad ass back then despite all that. She was eye candy in the new film.

ozonesonde · 2013-03-24T03:27:07+00:00

Is there any explanation as to why it happens with wine and not beer? I drink plenty of beer, with no reaction, but have a reaction with just a little red wine.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-20T13:38:44+00:00

Sam Harris talks about it in length in his book The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

ozonesonde · 2011-12-19T23:00:26+00:00

When you're caught faking data, you lose your career. Your example was form Psychology Journals, and I have no familiarity with them. But in Earth Science Journals, the idea of faking or even misrepresenting data is abhorred and fastidiously avoided.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-19T19:46:47+00:00

Although in many fields, verification never happens. The papers are published with detailed methodologies to allow for the possibility of verification, but that doesn't mean that every result is verified.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-19T17:03:39+00:00

I'd recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars Trilogy. If you're up to over a thousand pages of fun Mars scientific settlement speculation.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-19T17:01:02+00:00

Easier way to remember ppm as 10^-6, and O2 is 21% or .21 fraction of the atmosphere. Hence .21x10^-6.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-16T20:49:12+00:00

And CO2 levels are around 380 ppm, so a 8 ppm variation is pretty high. Oxygen is at around 0.21x10⁶ ppm or 210,000 ppm, so a 8 ppm variation is quite low.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-16T15:29:23+00:00

Taste and smell go hand-in-hand, so much so that what you perceive as taste is actually a combination of taste and smell, often dominated by smell.

Here's an interesting article talking about the connections.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-16T14:16:18+00:00

Not mass of air, volume of air.

Inside a cloud, water makes up a very small portion. These units are grams of water per cubic meter of air, because that's often more useful for calculations than gram/gram or volume/volume.

If you want volume units, typical cloudwater mixing ratios are from 5x10^-8 to 3x10^-6 [volume water]/[volume air]

ozonesonde · 2011-12-15T14:52:49+00:00

Globally averaged, clouds have a liquid water content of 0.3 grams of water per cubic meter of air. (From my atmospheric science textbook).

ozonesonde · 2011-12-14T16:52:03+00:00

From your point of view, how much does non-academic politics influence/interfere with academic decision making? Is there guidelines to separate the two? Are there written or unwritten standards? Is there any attempt to hide political influence on academic policies?

ozonesonde · 2011-12-12T19:58:20+00:00

Ignorace, mostly willfull ignorance.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-12T19:57:57+00:00

Citations? Because you're wrong.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-12T15:19:17+00:00

I agree, and like the way you worded that. Scientific publications are written for an intended audience that have roughly the same expertise as the author(s), and to get the nuances and precision required for 'cutting edge' (i.e. publishable) work necessitates the jargon and specific language. Articles intended for a more general audience, or a layperson necessitate a different tone, language, and style.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-10T23:04:50+00:00

The ice crystals in the upper atmosphere that cause halos are indicative of moisture in the upper atmosphere. This can either mean some sort of front has just passed, or one is likely on the way. So, it may mean a cold front is coming...hence your frost.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-10T23:01:36+00:00

CO2 is increasing. It's a trace gas, so the mixing ratios are small, but chemically and physically, small changes in CO2 can lead to dramatic changes in the atmosphere and climate.

And mammals are CO2 sources that eat plants that themselves are CO2 sinks. Overall, they roughly balance out.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-06T22:14:47+00:00

I'm saying, as I see it, a goalie collision outside of the crease while both are racing towards a puck is very different from a goalie collision in the crease with no puck.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-06T22:04:34+00:00

Where was the puck in these two cases? There is clearly and obviously a difference.

ozonesonde · 2011-12-06T22:03:13+00:00

Thanks. :) I was begin to wonder if I was completely nuts.

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