Last week I watched a special live broadcast by the PBS show Nature titled American Spring. It was a three night event with the first episode discussing birth and rebirth, the second covering migration. and the third was on connections. You can see episode 1 above. The series chronicled the efforts of citizen scientists inContinue reading “Citizen Science”
Tag Archives: Global Warming
Global Data Competition Winner
Three weeks ago I posted about our submission to the Global Data competition Phase 2. There were 9 teams from all over the US and Asia. Projects were scored on a through scale on a topic related to global warming. I am very grateful for my teammates Jim Lohse, Jackson and Nikki Pontsler, and NimeshContinue reading “Global Data Competition Winner”
Global Data Competition Submission
I have been busy last week working on the analysis of climate data and air quality data for Utah in 2013 for the Global Data Competition. Above is the document I submitted and my team put together in this graphical display (Thank you Jim, Nikki, Jackson, and Nimesh), The first page in the embedContinue reading “Global Data Competition Submission”
Facebook Experiment Update and Global Data Competition
Post Type 11-Oct 18-Oct Friend/family 2 2 Friend/Political 2 0 friend/share 2 2 Post from group 1 3 Post from page 2 1 promoted post 1 2 I looked at the types of posts from the first 10 posts I saw in my news feed on Facebook. Though some of the counts are different fromContinue reading “Facebook Experiment Update and Global Data Competition”
What Shaq can teach us about Climate Change
This week the UN is holding it’s 17th annual climate change conference, COP 17, in Durban, South Africa with the US not in attendance (with the possible exception of famous climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe R-OK who may address the conference by video). Last year I posted one of my all time most popularContinue reading “What Shaq can teach us about Climate Change”
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science | Mother Jones
Chris Mooney at Mother Jones magazine gives a good review in a long article of the research into why some reject out of hand science that contradicts their beliefs and cling to studies that give support. I would love to write that I am immune to this bias but I am not. That is whyContinue reading “The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science | Mother Jones”