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2026-01-03

Subtleties of Wind Patterns Affecting Precipitation

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Last year, I wrote a long post on this blog  giving the most general intuitive explanations possible for the existence of different climate ...
2025-12-20

Structural Incentives for Abusing PhD Students in Experimental Sciences and Engineering

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When I was in graduate school and then for a few years afterwards (even though I had changed fields), I found it strange and fascinating tha...
2025-10-02

FOLLOW-UP: Learning and Making Sense of Differential Geometry in General Relativity

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This post is a follow-up to the previous post [ LINK ] in which I tried to make sense of the mathematics of differential geometry, especiall...
2025-09-14

Learning and Making Sense of Differential Geometry in General Relativity

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I have been out of the field of physics for over 5 years, didn't get to make use of my training in quantitative analysis too much in my ...
2025-08-02

Disability, History, Wilderness, Natural Parks, and Urban Spaces (Part 3)

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This post is a follow-up to a post [ LINK ] explaining my mindset toward the notion of "wilderness" and appreciation of natural sc...
2025-07-01

Different Types of Wet Summer Climates in the Plains of the US

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As I have cataloged climates of places around the world, starting with the contiguous US, in order to categorize them according to the clima...
2025-06-01

Warmer Middle Latitude East Coasts than West Coasts in South America

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Even though I published a post on this blog a few months ago [ LINK ] about my intuitions about climates of the world that do a much better ...
2025-05-01

Posting Less Often on this Blog Going Forward

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Since I started this blog in 2009, I have been almost perfectly consistent in posting at least once every month on this blog, and even at ti...
2025-04-17

Green's Functions and Violin Making

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A few years ago, a friend of mine, who is a very accomplished player of the violin & viola and who is an amateur builder of violins ...
2025-03-03

More Quantitatively Founded Intuitions About Climates

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My last post on this blog [ LINK ] about my intuitions for climates was over 1 year ago, in 2024. Since then, I have continued to read more ...