tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post5653412987435118921..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Thursday LinksStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-82345533142859892742012-10-19T09:57:43.430-07:002012-10-19T09:57:43.430-07:00Greg: "indictment of the Industrial lifestyle...Greg: "indictment of the Industrial lifestyle...": no kidding.<br />Stuart Stanifordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-29511816706188331992012-10-19T08:19:52.017-07:002012-10-19T08:19:52.017-07:00I like our use of "dispiriting" to descr...I like our use of "dispiriting" to describe the presidential grasp, or presentation, of energy.<br /><br />I am going to use that description early and often.A Quaker in a Strange Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15425198389944137571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-2608846278811776202012-10-19T08:17:33.571-07:002012-10-19T08:17:33.571-07:00If one couples sedentary behavior with remaining i...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.<br />A Quaker in a Strange Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15425198389944137571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-91835874737652480532012-10-18T17:03:29.255-07:002012-10-18T17:03:29.255-07:00Mike - my bad - I wrote that from memory and forgo...Mike - my bad - I wrote that from memory and forgot to double-check. Corrected above.Stuart Stanifordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-29852609349507856832012-10-18T13:44:38.036-07:002012-10-18T13:44:38.036-07:00LG Chem makes the batteries for the Volt, not A123...LG Chem makes the batteries for the Volt, not A123. A123 was in the running, but lost the bid.Mike Rosackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774736465957479799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-33504263478324455862012-10-18T13:39:10.966-07:002012-10-18T13:39:10.966-07:00Michael: I readily grant that was worse.Michael: I readily grant that was worse.Stuart Stanifordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-90498039122640853042012-10-18T13:24:45.271-07:002012-10-18T13:24:45.271-07:00"This is what it's like to live through a..."This is what it's like to live through a social breakdown."<br /><br />Not to be snarky, but I would submit that this is more like what it is to live through a social breakdown:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse<br /><br />The fact that it's exactly the same neighborhood simply reinforces the point.Michael Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045827917076142231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-24379647869049665022012-10-18T11:07:53.441-07:002012-10-18T11:07:53.441-07:00Satellite gravity measurements to detect groundwat...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? <br /><br />"Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes."<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486234948199900568noreply@blogger.com