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It has been cold and snowy here in Minnesota, but ….
2013 Is the Fourth Hottest Year on Record
Believe It Or Not, Last Month Was One Of The Hottest Januaries Ever Recorded
While the United States of America is a big country, its total extent is only about 2% of the Earth’s total surface area. Our local fluctuations do not mean much for the overall global totals.
The dirty secret behind ball lightning ….
This shows the role of luck in scientific discovery:
a team of researchers serendipitously observed ball lightning at a time when they had the right equipment to study it. Jianyong Cen, Ping Yuan, and Simin Xue were in the field measuring the properties of ordinary lightning when they happened to catch ball lightning with both their high-speed cameras and their spectrographs
Comparing Temperatures
Coping with the Cold
It has been cold here in Minnesota, and Monday will be even colder, with an expected high around -15oF/-26oC. All K-12 public schools will be closed, per an order from Governor Dayton this morning. So a lot of Minnesota parents are going to be stuck at home (even the zoo will be closed) with their kids. How to cope…..
At 3:25 PM The Four Firkins, a local specialty beer store, sent out an email which included:
It’s cold. School is closed on Monday. Will you be prepared for being locked in the house with the kids all day? Alaskan Brewing is to the rescue!
Hop°thermia is brewed using Amarillo, Citra, and Centennial hops to create a juicy citrus fantasy explosion of hopcellence. The malt base is nice and toasty, and balances perfectly to the hop aromatics. Being a double IPA, it weighs in at a very warming 8.5%.
While I do not have this particular scheduling problem, I do want to try the beer. It sounds quite interesting.
A different weather story
Thinking Globally
We have had some chilly months here in Minnesota, but ….
Earth had third warmest May on record (tie with 1998 and 2005)
The global temperature has been above average now 339 straight months (more than 28 years). The last time global temperatures were below average (February, 1985), the Chevrolet Celebrity was among the top selling cars.
Monday Night Irish Class, March 11, 2013
Irish Class, March 11, 2013
Rang Gaeilge, 11ú lá Mí na Márta 2013
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[Missed class because I fell on some ice and broke a rib. However, here are my notes on the homework]
The Cold and the Dark
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On December 8 Metro Transit added a new express
bus line to downtown Minneapolis, where I work. The northern
terminus of this bus line is about 1¼ miles from
my home. This is well within normal walking distance for me, and there are sidewalks along Rice Street, where traffic can be quite serious. So
I decided it was time to leave the car at home and do my normal commuting entirely by walking and public transportation like
mia_mcdavid and I did in Chicago until 1987. I have been doing so ever since.
This has both pros and cons:
Experiment in Steam Bending
A cold day in Minnesota, -4oF/-20oC. I had the day off, but it was too cold to go anywhere. So I did a woodworking experiment. I had this homemade cane, about a yard long:
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