We were talking about this vid at the VILMA dinner last night. Heterogeneous nucleation (larger particles to "seed" aerosol formation) is needed for forming clouds. This is a not-well-understood factor that needs to be accounted for in climate models. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneD...
Not sure how far the migration has progressed yet, but just in case someone didn't see this on Ye Old Book of Faces, I have put the first part of Saturday's live stream up on Soundcloud. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/snoop-daub/s...
Starting an hour earlier than planned. Around 17:00-ish. See you there!
Cerebrolysis returns this Saturday! Dark and hard beats for dark and hard times... snoop-daub.mixlr.com/events/3990622
Hell of a fucking moment to discover this particular bit of Tacitus in my upcoming lecture slides
Cerebrolysis is back this Saturday! Come join us for a listen: snoop-daub.mixlr.com/events/3920032
We have raccoon dogs in Finland, not like some weird mutant hybrid, they are just called that! It's sort of like a coyote I guess.
I'm not sure how many items have to be in a "collection", but 4 seems on the low end of the range? Anyways, my article is part of this themed "collection" on Peroxy Radicals in the Atmosphere in Environmental Science: Atmospheres which has just been officially published. pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
A cartoon depicting a person (labeled “us”) poking an illustrated green dragon labeled "ANGRY BEAST" with a stick. The quote from Wally Broecker, "Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks," is included at the top.
Today, Wally Broecker would have been 93. He was obsessed with abrupt climate change that arrives suddenly and dramatically.
He likened the climate system to an "angry beast", and said we shouldn't poke it (i.e., keep emitting CO₂) because we don't know how and when it'll react.
We should listen.
Looks like we will be cancelling this one actually. But stay tuned for an X-Mess stream coming on Dec. 21st!
Come check out our next live stream, some combination of electro, techno, italo and house music mixed up according to the old ways in Kirkkonummi. snoop-daub.mixlr.com/events/3864918
When one of your favourite records starts to skip in the worst place. Vinyl... it's a love/hate kinda thing.
I think maybe I misunderstood. The two main brassica species we get broccoli, kale etc. from were 2 of the 3 diploid inputs for U's Triangle, which led to even more polyploid species. Still, shows off the remarkable propensity for hybridization of brassicas!
I’m a bad influence on my respectable colleagues.
Started out wondering what exactly "choi sam" is and ended up here! The original genetic accident leading to the hybridization of brassica species into all the varieties we know was less than 50,000 years ago... hard to imagine our modern diet without them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangl...
Para-environmentalism is no longer fringe; it's inside the walls of the academy. Something has gone wrong with the ability of paid experts to think, and the corrective systems, like peer review, are under strain. There is a version of this critique from conservatives about how universities are a left-wing monoculture that stifles open, substantive debate. But the problem isn't merely ideological. The problem is that universities began running their operations like private-equity and real-estate empires with education as a side hustle, and there are too many administrators and not enough tenured teachers. The non-tenured professors and aspiring professors are incentivized to convert social capital into a job by becoming scholar-influencer-activists.
Not the point of her article — The Rise of Green MAGA about the convergence of mainstream environmentalism with the MAGA movement — but here's @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social on why academics can't think anymore. 😳
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
Hey y'all! My name is Chris Daub, I do computational atmospheric chemistry in Helsinki, Finland. Expect occasional posts about my work and other science stuff, but also my two main hobbies, DJing and cooking. Like this great vid detailing all the cuisines of China. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTa_...
