- Are we losing interest in the Eurozone crisis?
- Visualizing the US drought from satellite gravity measurements.
- How and why some folks are opposing the Keystone XL pipeline.
- A123 Systems battery maker for the
Chevy VoltFisker Karma has filed for bankruptcy. The assets and operations will be acquired by Johnson Controls. - I thought this article about life in Damascus was very interesting (if sad). This is what it's like to live through a social breakdown.
- Extraordinary: "And the findings were sobering: Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes."
- Jim Hamilton does the energy fact check on the presidential debate. Personally, I found it dispiriting that energy issues could take such a high profile while being discussed in a way that almost completely ignored the real factors in the situation.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
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Satellite gravity measurements to detect groundwater? Amazing. I wonder how large a deflection in GRACE orbits is generated by a difference of a few centimeters of groundwater?
"Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes."
Classic over-interpretation of statistics. Especially the emphatic word "single" -- every SINGLE hour of tv. There's some big cloud of data points, somebody does a linear regression and reports a coefficient. Then along comes a journalist to construe this as a direct linear relationship.
Here's the 'linear' relationship I worry about: every SINGLE time a journalist tells this simple minded linear causation 'story' in a news article, 10 more people decide "science is such BS" and tune it out.
"This is what it's like to live through a social breakdown."
Not to be snarky, but I would submit that this is more like what it is to live through a social breakdown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse
The fact that it's exactly the same neighborhood simply reinforces the point.
Michael: I readily grant that was worse.
LG Chem makes the batteries for the Volt, not A123. A123 was in the running, but lost the bid.
Mike - my bad - I wrote that from memory and forgot to double-check. Corrected above.
If one couples sedentary behavior with remaining indoors and as a result becoming Vitamin D deficient the outcome is a heck of an indictment of the Industrial lifestyle of working in an office and sitting front of a computer.
I like our use of "dispiriting" to describe the presidential grasp, or presentation, of energy.
I am going to use that description early and often.
Greg: "indictment of the Industrial lifestyle...": no kidding.
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