Friday, January 18, 2013

[jules' pics] ice age cycles

It is astonishing the extent to which Americans wear their hearts upon their sleeves.
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Only the Yakuza have tattoos in Japan, to the extent that people with tattoos are generally not welcome to bathe in the public baths.
[Lisiecki&Raymo benthic stack of the last 7 ice ages]
 信じられない!

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 1/18/2013 01:33:00 PM

4 comments:

crf said...

Why's his tattoo in French? Probably he's Canadian.

jules said...

Wrong on both counts, I believe. :-) But there is no point trying to guess who she is, since all American climate scientists have tattoos (assuming the sample of 3 that I went to the bar with is representative)... My, how the world has moved on since we moved to Japan...

David B. Benson said...

jules --- That is an old & famous problem in statistics (Due to LaPlace I think). I suspect you stopped checking far too early.

:-)

Steve Bloom said...

Er, maybe that really is a Yakuza member, and it's going to cost us all a pretty penny if we want get our next glaciation back in one piece. Oh wait...