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2024-04-01
Transitioning from microscopic to macroscopic and quantum to classical regimes
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I recently read two things that were of interest to me having previously worked in physics. One was an article in The New Yorker magazine [...
2024-03-01
Progression of Winter Storms across the Contiguous US
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This winter has featured many winter storms over the contiguous US that have swept from the west coast to the east coast. In previous posts,...
2024-02-02
My time at the TRB 2024 Annual Meeting
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Last month, I attended the TRB 2024 Annual Meeting. The conference, which was held in DC, was a lot of fun. The graduate student researcher ...
2024-01-01
Variations of Coastal Monsoon Climates with Latitude
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I have learned about different aspects of the Earth's climate and shared what I've learned over 5 posts in 2022, including basic int...
2023-12-02
Myth of the Effects of the Gulf Stream on the Climate of Europe
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Recently, I happened to come across articles online [ LINK ] clarifying that there are some competing explanations for why the climate of Eu...
2023-11-01
Contravariant and Covariant Objects in Matrix Notation
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For many years when and since I was in college, I wondered whether it might be possible to consistently represent contravariant & covari...
2023-10-12
Where Different Climate Types Do or Do Not Occur in Middle Latitudes
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As a follow-up to a recent post [ LINK ], I've been able to somewhat comprehensively catalogue & categorize climates of different po...
2023-09-18
Stand-Up Comedy and Emotional Resonance
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I recently read an article in The New Yorker magazine [ LINK ] about how the stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj significantly exaggerated or co...
2023-08-06
Movie Review: Oppenheimer
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I should note that the last movie review on this blog was almost exactly 12 years ago, when I had watched the movie Source Code [ LINK ]; g...
2023-07-01
More on Climate Categorization
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This post is essentially a follow-up to a recent post [ LINK ] about the Köppen & Trewartha categorizations of climates; that post was i...
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