tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137266812012-02-01T21:54:21.561-05:00"All great truths begin as blasphemies." G.B. ShawUmludhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09975670307431521495noreply@blogger.comBlogger9901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13726681.post-57608515406684255812012-02-01T09:00:00.001-05:002012-02-01T09:00:09.264-05:00

O.M.G.! LeBron James rode his bicycle to the game that he was playing in? He did what?!?!?!? Rode a ... bicycle? ESPN "reports": Word trickled out during Sunday's game that LeBron James rode his bike to AmericanAirlines Arena. Traffic was backed up because of a nearby marathon and LeBron decided to take another mode of transportation. The ride took 40 minutes and he safely arrived at the

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I hold out hope that winter will actually come; a real winter that dips the thermometer down to the single digits (in Fahrenheit, of course; double negative digits in Centigrade). A winter with snow, dry air, and (if I can wish) clear, bright, and frigid days. You know what I'm talking about: winter in Michigan. I'm not asking for huge amounts of snow. (In fact, I would prefer not to have too

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A short story that makes rather fun use of the random Captcha words that we often see online. Captcha from Gabrielle de Vietri on Vimeo. Via The Dish. Listening to the story and watching the Captcha images (to confirm the nonsense word is actually a nonsense Captcha-generated word), it's interesting to cogitate upon the "flavor" of the word - how the author uses these words to so perfectly

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Hopefully, no one is naive to the fact that this winter's temperatures have been far above the long-term average. In fact, although we reached a low of 10F (well below the mean temperature for the night of Jan 29/Jan 30), the trend for most the entire previous week was that of above-average daytime and nighttime temperatures (and 20 of the previous 30 days in January have been above average, too,

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A little while ago, I learned about Playing for Change. This group, this mission, this music is truly internationally bound, uplifting, and moving. The mission of the PfC Foundation is "to connecting the world through music by providing resources to musicians and their communities around the world." The foundation does some great filming and mixing of musicians from around the world - to play "

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Sometimes, when I listen to songs from the deep depths of my childhood, tears start to come. These aren't moving arias. These aren't symphonic miracles. These don't have mind-blowing powerchords. These are - I must admit - almost all folk songs. Many of them written generations ago and now seem to be almost nothing more than distant memory for an aging generation. However, perhaps because I was

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The above image is also available at 8000x8000 resolution. Pretty awesome! Also, there is an "expanded" version of Earth: NASA Goddard has more photos of Earth on its Flickr page, too.

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As a closing question in an interview with Tim Maudlin, there was this question (and response): I recently came across a paper about Fermi's Paradox and Self-Replicating Probes, and while it had kind of a science fiction tone to it, it occurred to me as I was reading it that philosophers might be uniquely suited to speculating about, or at least evaluating the probabilistic arguments for the

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From PhysOrg comes a news blurb about mapping climatic changes to the Chinese "cultural calendar" of the 24 solar terms. According to Wikipedia's entry (because the description on the PhysOrg blurb wasn't too enlightening) on solar terms: A solar term is any of 24 points in traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars that matches a particular astronomical event or signifies some natural

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Although Beijing has started to release its fine-particulate (PM2.5) data, there is an additional point of concern: Beijing's current classification system currently classifies "light pollution" at the same level as the US classification for "hazardous." This raises a point of concern about grading scales. If two groups are using two different scales to measure the same thing, then it is not

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Well, the numbers are in: according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), 2011 was globally the 9th warmest year since 1880, and 9 of the 10 warmest years have happened since 2000, with temperatures +0.92F (+0.51C) higher than the mid-20th century, which is used as a baseline for comparison. Oh, and remember that 2011 was supposed to be a La Nina year (and that La Nina years are

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Several months ago, I saw this rather humorous sign: Very cute (but unfortunately without attribution). I saw this other tribute to Lionel Richie's song: Hello from ant1mat3rie on Vimeo. For those of you who are not familiar with the song, here is the original (with lyrics):

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I was curious about the amount of calories in a Hostess Twinkie. Turns out that it's 150 calories per Twinkie - which is a lot of calories, but how does it break down? Calories: 150 Calories from fat: 41 Total Fat: 4.5g (7%) Saturated Fat: 2.5g (13%) Trans Fat: 0.0g  Cholesterol: 20mg (7%) Sodium: 220mg (9%) Total Carbohydrate: 27.0g (9%) Sugars: 18.0g Protein: 1.0g Vitamin A: 0% Vitamin

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The latest YouGov poll has some interesting things about the viewpoints of potential voters about the candidates (from the GOP as well as about the President). Interesting thing about that poll's results (go to page 25 of the report): 30+ year-old, White, women with high school or less education, from the Midwest or South, and with a family income of less than $40k/yr are the most likely to

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Matt Alt and others (aka: Néojaponisme) try out some "third category beer": The men continue with highballs: Who'd've thunk it? I'd like to try and make a video cast for Michigan beers... but maybe there are already some people who did that. (And plus, I think that I really like most of the MI beers that I've tried, much unlike the tone of these vids seem to me.)

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I normally wouldn't watch this ad ... ... and go, "OMG, that is SO sexualizing yoga!" I wouldn't say that partially because I wouldn't actually use those words, but also because I watched it and didn't see it as sexualizing. Tiring, yes. Acrobatically proficient, yes. Beautiful to watch, yes. Sexualizing, no. And yet, some do. From The Dish: Yoga advertising has been trying for a while now to

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Today, if you go to the main page on Google.com, you will see this: At the same time, if you go to any page on the English Wikipedia pages, you will see this: Why the censorship Google banner and (English) Wikipedia black-out? Well, according to (English) Wikipedia's only working page (at least for today): Wikipedia is protesting against SOPA and PIPA by blacking out the English Wikipedia for 24

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Sometimes we forget about how much help the Clean Air Act is doing for our air in the US. Sometimes we might need a reminder, and Beijing has recently given us a demonstration as to why we want it. Via NASA: Beijing without smog: Beijing with smog: From the NASA website: Fog and haze blanketed the North China Plain on January 10, 2012, making travel difficult. The Beijing airport cancelled

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Sitting right now in Dallas/Ft Worth airport, waiting at gate C14 for my eventual flight to Detroit. Yesterday, I woke up in Valparaiso, Chile, and now I'm headed back to (apparently) rainy Ann Arbor.

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No doubt that many people in the world (at least in the West) are going to get hyped up over the end of the world that is - according to some people - going to happen in 2012. Already there was the blockbuster (and hilariously crazy) 2012, and there is the film The Darkest Hour (which is also another end-of-the-world story). Way back in 2004, there was The Day after Tomorrow (a

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I didn't know this, but apparently up to 1/3 of vehicular fuel consumption is wasted on friction. Yep, based on estimates of European drivers in a story over at PhysOrg: There are 612 million cars in the world today. The average car clocks up about 13,000 km per year, and in the meantime burns 340 litres of fuel just to overcome friction, costing the driver EUR 510 per year. What's more, here's

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To continue with a theme that started in December - India to ban "offensive material" from the Internet - PhysOrg presents the next stage of the farce that now seems evermore likely to happen: India is going to try to censor offensive material from the Internet: India's government authorised on Friday the prosecution of 21 Internet firms including Facebook and Google in a case over obscene

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As if it weren't too terribly obvious from that much-maligned common sense, a new global study of 29,000 people from 52 countries in Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and the Middle East has shown: mild to moderate physical activity at work, and any level of physical activity during leisure time reduces the risk of heart attack, independent of other traditional risk factors

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No... as much as I like to take photos, this one's not about me, but about Jeff Harris's project (starting in 1999) to take a photo of himself each day. Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting from We Know Music on Vimeo. From Time: In an effort to record the year of his life leading up to the millennium, Jeff Harris began a project in which he used his trusty Olympic Stylus 35mm film

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Via TreeHugger The hyper-real gold fish by Ryusuke Fukahori aren't actually real... They are painted in layers on acrylic, coming to artificial life with the clear acrylic. Kind of mesmerizing... For more information (in Japanese) go to: http://goldfishing.info/

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If you ever learned anything about water in the natural world, you've probably learned about the water cycle. You know, water evaporates from the oceans (or lakes, or rivers, or anywhere, really, but it's usually depicted as the oceans, since this is where most evaporation occurs in the world), condensates to form clouds, and then precipitates (either as rain or snow) to fall upon the land, where

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In my news feeds (Facebook and Google Reader) come two stories that point out some ways that you could passively lose some weight (i.e., lose weight without exercising). Now, whether this is good for you is a different question, but let me list them and then discuss them briefly: Make better decisions when eating out. Keep the temperature at 60F. The first comes from MedicalXpress. In a study

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A little bit of visual pleasure surrounding the book.

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One thing that I dislike about the cycling movement in the US is that it (still) seems to be dominated by what I would call "specialist" riders: road-bike and mountain-bike enthusiasts. By "enthusiast" I mean people who might drive their bike to a place in order to best utilize it for the purpose of riding smoothly and quickly on paved roads or race downhill and over rough terrain. These aren't

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The ticket price did play a part in my decision of flying on Dec 25 as opposed to Dec 23 or 24. It would have cost about $500 more to fly on the Friday or Saturday leading up to Christmas, and so it was a pretty simple choice for me, especially when one thinks about the problems of onward travel once I was to arrive at Santiago. If I arrived at Santiago on December 24 (having left on December 23)

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This has been going around the Internets for a while. However, I haven't seen (although I haven't looked hard) a site that commented on the placement of the points that come prior to the obviously misplaced 8.6% point. So I did it by making a graph in Excel and laying it over the FOXNews graph As you can see, there are a few points that are lying above where they ought to be, and FOXNews was

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Mid-December and 56F (14C)? In Ann Arbor? Woah. If that's the case, then it won't be very fun riding into town. (Screen capture from weatherspark.com)

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Today, I saw three stories on the benefits of increased amounts of bicycling. The first (on Treehugger) - Graph of the Day: Proof that Bike Lanes Attract Bike Riders - described the benefit of having a transportation manager who is partial to bike lanes: if you build them (bike lanes), they (bike riders) will come. What's interesting to my nerdy mind is that of the background trend

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I do realize that there is a little bit of snow on the ground this morning. I did, after all, cycle into town. However, with this being the very last day of the writing clinic this semester, it's a wonder that none of the students who signed up for it have actually shown up. It was the same last Monday, when there was some snow, and the Monday before that when it was raining (somewhat) heavily. I

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I didn't know that a hurricane hit Scotland last week. Where was that on the news coverage here in the US? (Hint: It wasn't, at least anywhere I saw.) According to the Wikipedia page: Hurricane Bawbag is the colloquial name given to an intense mid-latitude storm that brought hurricane-force winds to Scotland during the week beginning on 5 December 2011. The storm also brought prolonged gales

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Via PhysOrg: Tropical birds are moving to higher elevations because of climate change, but they may not be moving fast enough, according to a new study by Duke University researchers. The study, published Thursday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, finds that the birds aren't migrating as rapidly as scientists previously anticipated, based on recorded temperature increases. The

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From MedicalXPress: Research shows that feeling good about your country also makes you feel good about your own life—and many people take that as good news. But Matthew Wright, a political scientist at American University, and Tim Reeskens, a sociologist from Catholic University in Belgium, suspected that the positive findings about nationalism weren’t telling the whole story. “It’s fine to say

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One thing that I love about Japan is how it celebrates Christmas. As an almost completely not-at-all Christian country - one that doesn't even share roots of religion with Christianity, either, Japan is a very ... interesting ... national lens through which to view cultural displays and practices surrounding Christmas (especially living through FoxNews' "War on Christmas" segments). To that end,

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I was heading in to campus shortly after lunch, and once I pulled up to the gate at Liberty Road, I saw the UPS truck pulling in... with the package that I was waiting for! This is the third time that this sort of thing has happened (meeting either the UPS or the FedEx truck as I pull up to the gate to leave), and I don't have many things sent to Saginaw Forest by UPS or by FedEx. Heh. I know

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Yesterday I commented on a story about the thick smog that descended on Beijing to stop flights. Well, there's a follow-up story that speaks to another part of the Chinese experience: a lack of a public (physical) forum to protest. Protests are basically not allowed in China (almost certainly a response to the Tianamen Square riots and massacre... a topic which is also censored in China), and so

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Now I wonder how India is going to accomplish this: Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said talks with the Internet giants had failed to come up with a solution following complaints that he had lodged three months ago over "unacceptable" images. OMG! The Intertubes has images that someone finds unacceptable? SHOCK! HORROR! Please, quickly, tell me more! Sibal said the government supported

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There's a fun show on ABC called Once Upon a Time. Its scenes are split between the modern day (reality, or a TV facsimile thereof) and fairy-tale land (generally shown to be a medieval-esque fantasy version of Europe). The scenes of the modern day are -- I assume -- pretty easy to mock up in the studio, but the fantasy lands...? Where are you going to get those sorts of landscapes that are not

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The environmental problems in China due to their fast industrialization of recent years has manifested in many different ways. The most recent one - that hit the PhysOrg newsfeed - is "Hundreds of flights cancelled due to Beijing smog." Yes, the city that hosted the Olympic games (and had to ban driving in the city, shut down factories, etc., in order to actually have decent air quality during

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From the annals of the science of "Well, duh!", we have another study to add to the overwhelming evidence that... wait for it... abstinence only sex eduction does not reduce teenage pregnancy, and is - in fact - correlated with increased teenage pregnancy. Via Physorg: States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and

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Via Copyranter: 11HP/29" Snowblower Price $900.00 Address Moncton, NB, Canada Do you like shoveling snow? Then stop reading this and go back to your pushups and granola because you are not someone that I want to talk to. Let’s face it, we live in a place that attracts snow like Magnetic Hill attracts cars, only that ain’t an illusion out there. That’s 12 inches of snow piling up and,

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The desktop weather adviser warned of a mix of rain and snow as I was leaving the office. However, by the time I had shut everything down and peeked out of the window, what might have been rain and snow had changed to just snow. (A wet snow as it turned out.) I put on my coat, cap, and helmet, and headed out to my bicycle - now back in studded-tire mode. The ride to the Kroger was pretty

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During one of my office hour sessions, I taught about the use of "a" and "an" in non-standard cases. The thing that (apparently) a lot of national curricula fail to teach about English to their students is that English - as much as it is a written language with thousands upon thousands of books - is a spoken language, and that parts of grammar are based on this point. There really is no

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Times, they are a changin'. And not only with fashion, music, and communication technology. Times are also changing in terms of vast social trends, including acceptance of multi-racial marriages (and - presumably - the children from such marriages), homosexuality, marijuana use, etc. One more thing that is changing is the perception of how the US should act militarily. In a recent Pew poll,

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It's raining (a lot) today, so when I saw the news that 2011 is cooler than 2010 and is only the 10th warmest year on record, I thought of the news hitting the denialist camps and them bouncing it around, saying, "Yeah! See? The world's cooling! It's cooler this year than it was at any year from 2002 through 2010 (save for 2008, which was a La Nina year, so that's anomalous)." But wait... 2011

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In response to yet another post over at SocImages, I delved even deeper into the coining of the term BMI and how it became used in the health world. I have previously written about BMI (here, here, and here), but I never really delved into how this unit had become a part of looking at population health (specifically obesity). Well, it was because I like participating in the commentary in

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While a majority of Republican voters as well as representatives and senators consistently align on the side of global warming denial, they also tend to be the side of the political spectrum that demands that good government "listen to the generals" and "hear from the experts" and "be concerned with national security." However, what happens when "listen to the generals" isn't actually what they

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Having spoken with many non-US graduate students in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, it's clear that there are many people hold a different conceptualization of what "the environment" is. Furthermore, the distinction between "Natural Resources" and "Environment" (or "Natural Environment") is rarely clear, either (at least among the Koreans, Chinese, and Taiwanese grad students).

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... but not like you're likely to ever see it in person. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

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When we are talking about the problems of adapting to climate change, and the problems of the current climate bringing about weather that we haven't seen before, we have to stop and think about a small but crucial point. We have no experience of the weather patterns experienced of our forebears. True, we can rebuild the climatic conditions, and -- where weather data exist -- we can reconstruct

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I came across a comment at a blog entry on Soc Images about government censorship. The author of the comment (in addition to other grammatical faults) apparently didn't know the difference between censure and censor: I don't think "state" is the  correct judge for ads, especially since it could allow them to censure political contents for example. But having an independant organ of regulation

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This has been a pet peeve of mine for a LONG time: people mistaking cavalry for Calvary (it rarely goes the other way, though). In recognition of Veterans Day (aka Armistice Day and Poppy Day in the British Commonwealth), I'd like to point out that there is a big difference between the divisions of the military that we refer to as "cavalry" (in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and NZ, for instance)

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To some, the idea of 111111 is, well, amazing. However, it only works in the 12-month, Gregorian calendar and using the reference frame that has become commonplace in the world. However, if we used the Proleptic Julian date, today would be 2455876. The Julian calendar date of 2222222 occurred on February 11, 1372. This makes us remember that year and day and month are rather arbitrarily

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The BEST project was looking at trying to debunk the existing climate predictions by re-analyzing all the data. However, what they found was this:

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The other day, as I was cycling home after dark, I noticed the flashing lights of a police car pulled off to the side of the Liberty Road, just west of Scio Ridge. Hopefully he's ticketing a speeder or a DUI, I thought to myself. The thought that it could have been an accident did briefly rear itself in my head, but since there wasn't any traffic diversion going on, I figured that it wasn't such

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Like so many other videos, I happened upon this via another video. In Japan, the art of origami (which literally means "fold paper") is something that all Japanese children are introduced to from an early age. It's an integral part of the culture. Although it's purportedly quite old, the mathematical theory of origami is only a few decades old. Before the discovery of its mathematical theory, it

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Standing at SFO, trying out a Samsung Chromebook at a Google Chromebook kiosk. Pretty fast, pretty cool... so long as you have an Internet connection.(Also, it says that it's a "series 5"... where did the first four go?)

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Andrew Sullivan links to a Gallup post discussing the changing trend in the acceptability amongst Black and White respondents to the question of marriage to a member of the other race. With only slight word changes (that went from "colored people" in 1958 to "non-whites" from 1968-1978 to -- presumably -- "blacks" in subsequent surveys), there has been an ever-upward trend in both populations.

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Over at AltJapan, there's a story about a video that shows that Shinto Shrines act as a visual code to show the break line of tsunamis along the coast! WOAH! A tsunami hit Fukushima... and none of the shrines got destroyed?! That's got to be some major divine mojo working there! 20110820　原発建設　警告は無視された？ by PMG5 ... or it's just Shinto shrines being built at the location where historical tsunami

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I often forget that I don't really do hands-on mathematics anymore. By "hands-on," I mean doing it step-by-step; possibly by hand! A few years ago, I had a go at long division, but after several tries, gave up for a bit in frustration, had a coffee, mulled over it some, and then finished what should have been the operation of just a few minutes (if that). Today, it was trigonometry.

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Occasionally, my news ticker happens to serendipitously have stories aboutrelated topics (or topics that seem related in my head). This time, as I was scrolling through the day's updates, I saw one story about how smoking bans encourage female smokers to quit: The new study uses data from a national survey of 7,610 women who work outside the home, 81 percent of whom said they smoked daily.

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(H/T: The Dish)

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I don't know if it's because I grew up in East Asia, surrounded by examples of small houses (and small apartments), or if it's because I find the idea of highly efficient space allocation to be intriguing, but I've gone ga-ga over many of the postings about small buildings at various (non-architecture) blog rolls to which I subscribe. While waiting for a student to show up to office hours (and

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Let's first lay down some basic assumptions: The physical environment follows physical laws. Biological systems are affected by the physical environment. Humans are part of the biological systems. Humans can affect the physical environment. Humans create and work within social realities. Human social realities intersect with the physical environment. Humans create social laws that help govern

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I really do like reading SocImages, since it often brings up issues that are not relevant to my own area of study. However, many of the topics are germane to everyday life as well as perspectives on it. Furthermore, because of this, it's quite interesting to look at the reactions that people (including myself) have about their interpretation (and -- inevitably -- the interpretations of others).

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Where is that fresh flush of life? Wherefore stolid complacency stagnant in my gut? Where went the cold edge pulled from a sheath, Shining proud in the sun, ready to cut? How dull it is now, tarnished red with age, Unoiled and unsharpened, naked to the sky? How much cold iron is left below the rust? What mettle is held in that core? Shall we burnish it and see; Rasp the edge until it is once

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Thanks to a battery cover that is breaking on my camera, I've been rather remiss about uploading photos to Flickr (since I taped up the cover, and peeling off the tape to get to the memory card is annoying). However, this photo group (and the June and July ones) should get people "caught up" to the random photos taken around town. Repair crane sitting on a pontoon on Barton Pond. A

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Sandhill cranes (shot at maximum digital zoom, thus the pixelation) Roughly 1 quart (~1 liter) of raspberries, picked near the campfire ring in Saginaw Forest. Jiffy mixes in Chelsea A 19XX Ford at the Rolling Art car show in downtown Ann Arbor. A huge luna moth decided to spend some time hanging out on the gate post to Saginaw Forest A sampling bucket from the "frog guy".

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Chopping down one (more) of the elms. Massive branch from the dogwood tree takes out the electricity line in Saginaw Forest. A gorgeous peony Morning dew Ripening raspberries

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Over the past thirteen months, I've been using a Garmin to track where I've been cycling. No surprise that I'm focused mostly around the university... Colors range chronologically from red (July 2010) to yellow/orange (August 2011).

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A reader requested this one, and I happened to be cycling by that location a little while ago, so...

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If you've done work in rivers in the US, you will quickly learn that names for those flowing bodies of water smaller than a "river" are given different names in different places in the country. Some EFL individuals may think that there is a hierarchical nature to the relationship between a "stream", a "brook", a "run", a "wash", etc. Often, though, there isn't; all these things are similar to

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According to the Sitemeter tracker and the Blogger tracker, most people who come to my site find it by doing a search for "unit conversion" or "conversion table" or something similar. A number of years ago, I had written about a fun site that does unit conversions from standard units into more fun units. So, for example, you could know how far 500 miles was in units of "Great Walls of China" or

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This looks quite fun!

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A few years ago, I saw a video of a mime of Natalie Imbruglia's Torn: Later, I saw some other mimes of songs done by Johann Lippowitz (aka David Armand). Recently, I found some more... And a 14-minute compilation of his interpretive dances done for the Fast and Loose show on the BBC. Two more. Human Man in the Mirror <p></iframe><br /&

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The evolution of dance  The evolution of rap    The evolution of computers     The evolution of Final Fantasy chocobos    The evolution of Harry Potter    The evolution of the mobile phone (1985-2008)    The evolution of the TV (1920-2008)    The evolution of the car (1908-2008)    The evolution of the touchdown dance

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There's been some interest in a recent Gallup report from the Abu Dhabi Gallup organization that investigates the viewpoints of Americans on different topics, splitting them out based on stated religion. The survey also had questions about perceptions of Muslims, splitting these out also by stated religion. This report has been discussed at The Atlantic magazine, and it was nice to see many of

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I saw this posted on the Daily Dish: and I wanted to put in my tuppence: If you divide the amount spent on booze for each group by the groups median annual income, you’ll get a slightly more informative number: Less than HS: 0.88% of median annual income.  High School: 0.95%  Some College: 1.02%  Associates Degree: 1.03%  Bachelor Degree: 1.33%  Advanced Degree: 0.90%*  Still, this doesn’

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I love time-lapse films, and many of them have a sort of serene quality about them; gliding and elfin. Today, though, I present a time-lapse film that has a different feel: it looks a lot more like stop-motion animation using really high-quality models and miniatures. (The train and highway traffic starting at 0:45 really look like that to me. As do many other pieces there.) Perhaps this is

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The weather is perfect for all the biting flies that are buzzing around throughout the forest in the late afternoon. It makes maintenance annoyingly "piquant", and it makes me not actually want to do things outside, despite the lowered temperatures.... and that's a bad thing, since I have noted several clumps of purple loosestrife around the lawn (near the lake) as well as in the wetland on the

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Although I doubt that it was done in response to Eat, Pray, Love, this series of three short films are incredible. From Rick Mereki's Vimeo page: 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully

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I saw a clip of Matt Damon being interviewed by a free-market-will-save-the-world reporter about why job security should be based on a desire to make money (comparing her perception of Matt Damon's incentive to work hard as an film actor to the motivations that teachers "ought" to have). I saw that clip earlier today with very little context as to where it took place, and why he was being

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I often read the blog entries over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars each day. Ed usually posts four or five short posts in the morning, and I almost always find the posts interesting, and I enjoy reading (and sometimes contributing to) the commentary; the other commentators there are (usually) civil enough. There was one entry today -- "Those Scary Muslim Words" -- that was one of those posts

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For example, while I liked School of Rock, I don't like Tenacious D:

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This piece is one of my earliest memories of classical music: The Marriage of Figaro: I fell in love with it an an early age; the sounds are so emotive, the composition just so perfect to my ear. I cannot say how much I love this piece. And now I love it even more:

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"I have a theory on global warming," he announced. "I have a theory about why people think it's real." Oh, really, I thought to myself. This ought to be rich, coming from a shock-jock who has proven -- time and again -- to be a global-warming denier. What, exactly is your "theory" then? "Go back... thirty, forty years." Uh, huh.... "When there was much less air conditioning... in the country

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As part of the cultural gulf between the US and Japan -- something that is topical for today's Women's FIFA World Cup final between the US and Japan -- I present the following clip about what baby names Rosie Pope likes and dislikes: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Now, I know that Rosie Pope probably isn't an American (her accent sounds British), but

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If this all works out, then I will have connected this blog with my Facebook and Twitter feeds. We'll see how that works, though. The "need" for connecting various communication platforms is something that -- in a multi-platform world of greater communication (but perhaps diminished actual contact) -- is becoming increasingly necessary (well, if you've hooked in already). Thus, the wonder of

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Okay, so it's not a century in the true sense (i.e., 100 miles in one day). However, my bike ain't a road bike, so with a relatively heavy bike, I think that it's pretty good (especially if I'm working during the day, and all the miles are commuting miles). Basic stats: Distance: 101.68 miles Time: 7.35 hours. Average speed: 13.83 mph I'd say that it's not too shabby.

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I'm just getting over my allergies -- that were causing me troubles for much of the springtime. It was with this in mind that it made me very happy to see a story about building a cheap air purification system. To avoid indoor allergens, many doctors recommend using an air purifier with a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter. The cost of these machines can run from $75 up to $800 for

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I'm reading Changing Planet, Changing Health, and I came across a mention of increased number of more intense storms:Studies over the last five years have shown that hurricanes are getting stronger. In a 2005 paper in Nature, meteorologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology described a new measure, the power dissipation index, that captures the amount of energy that flows

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In reading books and articles written about a future in which we have to adapt to a certain amount of climate change, one is struck by the consistency of using New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina as an example that illustrates many of the social considerations that future planning must incorporate. This make sense, since we wouldn’t care about the effects of climate change if it were happening

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