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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Monday Night Irish Class, November 18, 2013

Irish Class, November 18, 2013

Rang Gaeilge, 18 lá Mí na Samhna 2013

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Useful reference: Foirmeacha Táite Ghaeilge — Irish Synthetic Verb Forms

An fear a chaill fortún “The man who lost a fortune”

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The Doegen Records Web Project: Irish Dialect Sound Recordings 1928-31

Léigh tuilleadh

What pause?

Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated by Half

A new study by British and Canadian researchers shows that the global temperature rise of the past 15 years has been greatly underestimated. The reason is the data gaps in the weather station network, especially in the Arctic. If you fill these data gaps using satellite measurements, the warming trend is more than doubled in the widely used HadCRUT4 data, and the much-discussed “warming pause” has virtually disappeared.

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