Das U-Blog by Prashanth

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 ...

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...

Recently, I happened to come across articles online [ LINK ] clarifying that there are some competing explanations for why the climate of Eu...

For many years when and since I was in college, I wondered whether it might be possible to consistently represent contravariant & covari...

As a follow-up to a recent post [ LINK ], I've been able to somewhat comprehensively catalogue & categorize climates of different po...

I recently read an article in The New Yorker magazine [ LINK ] about how the stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj significantly exaggerated or co...

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...

This post is essentially a follow-up to a recent post [ LINK ] about the Köppen & Trewartha categorizations of climates; that post was i...

I've recently read the book How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg. As the author states in the introduction, it is an exposition of s...

The previous post in this blog [ LINK ] went over my rough intuition of climate, primarily in middle latitudes like those of the US. Most of...