Hoar frost in Camrose county, Alberta, Canada: Zack Florence

Excerpts from from the weekly flotsam: January 1 — January 7, 2023

For the past several years I have archived whatever might catch my attention. Sometimes it was meant for specific information to fill in some blanks in whatever I was working on, sometimes, nothing more than a point in time that could possibly lead to a “fractal” of information: not unlike the branches of a tree. One branch becomes 2, then 4, and so it goes.

Here is the first week of my collection in 2023. I hope that you will find something that interest you.

January 1 — January 7, 2023

Animals are responding to climate change: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/animals-are-shape-shifting-in-response-to-a-warming-world-70869?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY_NEWSLETTER_2023&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=240352284&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9mGsL0KGuMILoVMmoxDFHklw_welWmZaDAOJNlylm91XDC9fW1X0SFahW2p12uUotDOUi4MFjaYsPZwIeqP_zzHLajw95cZGiAi5j1PBUnHmCqTk0&utm_content=240352284&utm_source=hs_email

Wood as a green electricity source: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/12/nano-wizardry-makes-wood-a-green-electricity-source/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nano-wizardry-makes-wood-a-green-electricity-source&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nano-wizardry-makes-wood-a-green-electricity-source

Grasslands rather than trees?: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/climate-change-tree-planting-preserve-grass-grasslands/670583/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-planet&utm_content=20230104&utm_term=The%20Weekly%20Planet

List of archaeological periods — — structures and inputs wrt energy/power prior to fossil fuels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archaeological_periods

What does CE mean?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

RE power laws from (a friend): You asked before about power laws. I was thinking of ones like the Kolmogorov spectrum for turbulence, derived from dimensional as well as physical reasoning. Then there are the often empirical power laws in social studies. I’ve been meaning to get hold of Geoffrey West’s book ‘Scale…’ ; citations and graphics: https://www.google.com/search?q=kolmogorov%20turbulence&tbm=isch&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQtI8BKANqFwoTCPCVzYGTr_wCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAG&biw=1536&bih=706&dpr=1.25#imgrc=uBbHbWcEvQ-kcM ; Kolmogrov’s…5/3 power law:https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085083 ; K-S test for normality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov_test

Extreme winter weather: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2353293-winter-storms-in-us-set-to-continue-while-europe-sees-record-warmth/

Expansion and Earth to moon: https://medium.com/@deep.space/if-the-universe-is-expanding-why-is-the-distance-between-the-earth-and-the-moon-not-changing-44606e794c1b

Symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634202-800-mysterious-symbols-in-cave-paintings-may-be-earliest-form-of-writing/ ; Cambridge Press original mss: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19

Good News Network: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/category/news/

1000 Words or More, I posted January 5: https://zack-florence.medium.com/some-of-my-favourite-images-311884079fe8

CDC variants, January 6: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?ACSTrackingID=USCDC_2145-DM96970&ACSTrackingLabel=1.6.2023%20-%20COVID-19%20Data%20Tracker%20Weekly%20Review&deliveryName=USCDC_2145-DM96970#variant-proportions

Human de novo genes and adding neurons: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01925-6

Canada’s Stonehenge: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220109-iniskim-umaapi-is-this-canadas-stonehenge

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