1. Geographic map of Dutch first names; more interesting than you might think.
2. Bob Cottrell's favorite research paper.
3. The culture that is Japan, robot officiates wedding and here.
4. Scott Sumner talk on the Great Depression.
6. Survey of what's going on in Thailand.
I’d like to see a frequency domain plot of that temperature data.
In re the Chicken research paper: I fear that Mr. Zongker’s thoughtful analysis of the Chicken function may have overlooked an important Chicken–
If Mr. Zongker fails to specify a limit on the Chicken function in the feedback loop of Figure Chicken 1, then the loop could become unstable, allowing for unbounded growth in the value of C(K) in equation (2) of Section 3 Chicken.
The risk is that Perdue (or some other chicken farmer) might attempt a physical implementation of this Chicken model. The result might be characterized as “playing chicken with chickens.”
On the other hand, this could drive down the price of chicken at your local supermarket.
So the coldest months of the year are now a little bit warmer – as if you went from downstairs to upstairs in your house. WATCH OUT!!!
This being finals week at some schools, I’m reminded of a time or two at college where #2 would have convinced me I had completely lost it.
I am unconvinced by the third argument in the chicken paper. It does not address the robin paper from 2007 and is thouroughly rebuked by the ostrich paper published last month. That is not to mention the letters to the editor in the Feather Journal, which call into question the first two arguments as well.
I doubt the paper was thouroughly peer reviewed.
I call “fowl.”
To be fair to Big Mac-eating SUV drivers, warmer-than-normal temperatures are the expected result in an El Nino year.
Re 5: In the comments, I noticed that the author ridiculed one of his critics but did not at all address the commenter’s first paragraph, which I find interesting and would like to know how true it is:
“GISS and CRU temps are diverging. GISS has April 1st and CRU has it as 5th. How does that happen since they use essentially the same data? Lotsa answers! But look to the poles for a hint. One ignores them due to lack of data and the other ESTIMATES.”
That Zonger paper is a bit too mathy for my tastes… tho, in this case, it tastes like, well, Chicken.
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