Monday, January 28, 2019

900 year New England temp record meets Shannon's sampling theorem

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A post in Phys.org claims to have used a new method to find and plot the temperature recorded in the bottom of a deep Maine lake.  They perf...
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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Microbrewers hung up by the Shutdown

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According to today's Wall St Journal, micro brewers need approval from some federal bureau or other before they can market new brews or ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Drug Pushing Robo Callers and the Opioid Crisis

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I am getting a phone call every other day now.  It's a robocaller who starts out asking if I am feeling any pain, and goes on to point m...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Near Money and the federal deficit.

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Money goes back to King Croesus of Lydia, 595-547 BC.   In his time money was precious metals (gold or silver, sometimes copper) stamped int...
Sunday, January 6, 2019

"Technology" in place of a real wall

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We tried that once.  I was in Thailand back during the war.  We tried to close the Ho Chi Minh trail.  It was a real foot path, running from...

Beat the Press goes up against the Shutdown

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Host Chuck Todd spent much of his hour ait time wailing about the government shutdown.  Strange.  They have been shut down for two weeks and...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

The Last Kingdom 2015

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It is a TV series for 2015.  I netflixed the first disk.  It is a historical drama, Vikings vs Saxons in 900 AD England.  I watched episode ...