Paul Mirel
Instrument Systems Engineer. Remote Sensing of Earth systems. Enabler of science by anyone curious about the world. Ally. Feminist. Wearer of respirators, wary of COVID. Evidence-based is best.
"Facts are useful in emergencies."-- The Talking Heads
- How about at Cat of Holding? Anything you give to it, it can store, but it’ll only retrieve items it feel like retrieving, and will sometimes retrieve items for no discernible reason.
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- Quite a lot of programming is not programming.
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- Beware big seatbelt! 80%* of all people who die in car crashes are wearing seatbelts! No more seatbelts! Be free, and don't die in a seatbelt-related car crash! *a statistic I just made up!
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- Excellent. I love to learn these gems!
- I like to learn about EVERYTHING, so I am VERY glad that BlueSky is taking off! I once asked an ENT, "If I were from Mars and had just gotten this body, what are your top recommendations for taking care of it?" "Don't smoke, and keep your teeth clean." What knowledge would you like to share?
- Superb infographics by Tufte on the efficacy of vaccines.
- Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
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- Reposted by Paul MirelMāori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
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- For #BlackHistoryMonth: mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! 🐡🧪👩🏾🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! 🧵1/n
- New phrase: "Just because you can calculate it, that doesn't mean that you can implement it." #AerospaceEngineering
- Astonishing panel on MSNBC: Nicole Wallace, Claire McCaskill, declaring themselves mystified by Trump’s plan to use the “weak president” tool of recess appointments. “He doesn’t understand how power in Washington works.” My god. Talk about not understanding how power works. -- @JeffSharlet
- We've crossed 1.6ºC. At about 1/3ºC/ decade, so ~2ºC in mind 2030s.
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- Reposted by Paul MirelBluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.
- Reposted by Paul MirelEarnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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