tingilinde

the brazen, almost psychedelic mendacity of the man

Ranking Trump with other Presidents.

 

rachel maddow's anthony fauchi interview

beyond pleasure

Why cats might be attracted to catnip..

 

max richter on tiny desk concert

arnold's advice

seriously - Biden should have ask him to be a vaccination ambassador 

 

my neighbor bernie

 

I'm not a Bernie person and the bernie meme is probably over .. but this one is perfect

debunking microwave myths

Greg Blonder does a great job explaining microwave safety and beyond on this Dave Chang podcast episode..  The interview starts about eight minutes in - I recommend going there directly unless you have an interest in drink pairings with fast food. 

 

 

trump's impeachment trial

An argument that it's less about Trump and more about white supremacy.

Is it time for the breakup?

 

 

albert and the xl pipeline

Alberta is the Canadian Texas - right wing politics in control and a big stake in oil.  Alberta's problem is the global demand for their oil isn't what it used to be and they are no longer the players they thought they were - even within Canada.  Some commentary by a resident.

 

 

a stoat on ice

some areas will have greater snowfall with global warming

One of the more noticeable increases in winter snow as the planet warms is the Great Lake region. A longer ice-free season is super-charging lake effect snow. When weather systems sweep across an ice-free lake they pick up extra moisture and dump it on the lee side.

 

amanda gorman

Anderson Cooper's interview.

 

just how much can biden undo?

Rule changes and conservative courts will probably get in the way of many.

snip

...

ome of the environmental policy changes, though, will be harder to reverse because the rules that implement key laws, such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Water Act, were changed.

“With the most damaging policy decisions and initiatives, the problem is when they have been done by rule-making and not executive orders and they have political support in the Senate, in particular, it can be hard to undo those things,” said Jim Lyons, the deputy assistant secretary for Land and Mineral Management at the Interior Department under Obama.

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yet another model

Of course some things like viral load and different virus mutation risks aren't known, but this one give a sense of what's going on in rooms as a function of number of occupants, activity types, ventilation, and so on- and roughly what masks might do.  CO₂ concentration is a good proxy for ventilation level. 

 

on yesterday

 

"A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.