climate, photos, miscellany
Some articles about the recent election in British Columbia: What happened in B.C., and what to do about it Why the B.C. polls were wrong: voters aren’t like the rest of us I was hoping the NDP would win and immediately kill the Northern Gateway pipeline. Regardless of the outcome, the fight against fossil fuel [...]
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I picked up a library copy of John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War because all my own books were in moving boxes, and to begin re-habituating myself to intensive reading in the lead-up to my comprehensive exam in August. The novel is what you would expect from le Carré: not sensationalized, conveying a sense [...]
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The Harvard Crimson has a piece on the school’s tenure program and what is necessary to succeed in it. It probably gives a flavour of what tenure committees throughout academia are looking for: “It is necessary to become a world expert in your field, publish great papers in good journals, develop a healthy funding pipeline, [...]
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Major Motoko Kusanagi – Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – SE02E14 “Poker Face”
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1) Keeping masses of batteries charged 2) The incompatibility of various wireless trigger systems (PocketWizard, Paul C. Buff, the proprietary system in the new Canon 600EX flash) 3) Finicky hotshoe adapters, for the majority of flashes lacking miniphone or PC connection ports 4) The ludicrous expense of cables required to connect radio triggers to flashes
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Here’s the actual abstract from “Acceleration of snow melt in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core during the twentieth century“, published in Nature Geoscience: “Over the past 50 years, warming of the Antarctic Peninsula has been accompanied by accelerating glacier mass loss and the retreat and collapse of ice shelves. A key driver of ice loss [...]
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Presumably after considering the consequences of doing so, Google has become a sort of unusual executor of the digital estates of users who opt in to their ‘Inactive Account Manager’ feature. They are given the option to set how long a ‘timeout period’ must pass before the system kicks in. They are then allowed to [...]
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Bonus: a demonstration of why I can’t just hand my camera to passers-by to take a picture After 32 years as the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, climatologist James Hansen is retiring (New York Times, Nature). He now intends to devote more of his time and energy to pushing for action on [...]
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