“What makes mosquitoes so dangerous? Despite their innocuous-sounding name—Spanish for “little fly”—they carry devastating diseases. The worst is malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year….”
Category: Curious things
One Fish, Two Fish, Sturddlefish
What is a struddlefish when it wakes up in the morning? A creature created by a mistake in a Hungarian fish breeding lab.
When a bird changes its song . . .
I like birds – big birds, small birds, common birds, rare birds – all kinds of birds. I have fed them in my backyard for years and watched then wherever…
Diamond Princess Mysteries
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach OK, here are my questions. We had a perfect petri-dish coronavirus disease (COVID-19) experiment with the cruise ship “Diamond Princess”. That’s the cruise ship that…
The Math Of Epidemics
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Watts Up With That is about more than just the climate. It’s also about interesting things in the world. So if you’re looking for just…
The Hot And Cold Of Space
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For those who enjoy mathematical puzzles, I’m putting this one out there for your pleasure. Suppose we have a 1 metre by 1 metre by…
Fun With Lunar Temperatures
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A while ago, I wrote a post called “The Moon Is A Cold Mistress”. In that post I discussed how the average temperature is not…
Rutan, Lovelock & Branson
Guest post by David Archibald, Burt Rutan is one of the most interesting men on the planet. He has designed 46 aircraft, six of which are included in the collection…
Self-Driving Uber Killed Pedestrian for Jaywalking
Guest “don’t you just?” by David Middleton Before we get to self-driving vehicular manslaughter, don’t you just love futurists? Sep 13, 2018Driverless Cars Will Dramatically Change Where And How We…
The “climate doom” timeline
Have you ever wanted a nice, compact image you could share on social media whenever you need to put some eco-worrier in his/her/its place? Well, one showed up in my…
Washington Winery releases wine called "The Denier"
I received this submission, which is interesting as well as business promoting. I have no objections, and check out their page on climate.~ctm Guest post informercial by Tom Davis and…
How’d They Calculate That?
News Brief by Kip Hansen There are two recent stories in the NY Times that bring up a curious seemingly inconsequential oddity of mathematical computing. They are both written…
Forcing and Burning in Coal Country.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A 2015 paper by Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira has come to my attention. Inter alia, the abstract says: For example, the global and time‐integrated…
California Super Bloom
This winter’s exceptional rain season is leading to stunning sites sights in California.~ctm From Space.com California’s ‘Superbloom’ of Wildflowers Looks Spectacular from Space! By Elizabeth Howell 3 days ago Science…
Heat “waves” detected moving through pencil lead
At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports From MIT: Exotic ‘second sound’ phenomenon observed in pencil lead The next time you set a…
What would happen to Earth’s Climate and Weather if we had no Moon?
A provocative hypothetical question: What if the Moon was not there? Video follows. This giant rock lights up the night and can even change colors. So what would we do…
Data analysis: Global temperature has not increased under Republican presidents, only Democrats
From the website Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science at Columbia University comes this hilarious but real bit of data analysis. Looking at short trends in the global surface temperature…
Claim: Climate Conscious Tesla Owners being harassed by ICE Drivers
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Quartz claims that internal combustion engine vehicle drivers are bullying Tesla owners by parking their ICE vehicles in Tesla charging station bays. Tesla owners are…
The Limits Of Uncertainty
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the comments to my post called “Inside the Acceleration Factory“, we were discussing how good the satellite measurements of sea surface heights might be.…
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