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Flight to Vienna. Austrian Air goes in for scarlet in a big way. In aeroplane food horror desperation PTSD, James clicked ...

Wot's the probability of not getting poo'ed on if you walk under 19 pigoens? -- Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 4...

The first one isn't really a decadal prediction, but having finally got round to downloading the HadCRUT4 data and plotting it out, it ...

These days, my spoken Japanese hardly gets used beyond the "tall cappuccino" level (for which, should you ever find yourself need...

Last year the ume blossom was very late and the cherry quite late, but this year the cherry flowered very early. The magnolia like to wait u...

Ok, having got various things out of the way, on with the show. I liked this letter which appeared in Nature recently. Not just becaus...

Via Stoat , I find the Economist has been saying stuff about climate sensitivity . Somewhat to my surprise given my recent experience of t...

update - read the comments before clicking the links... Jules pointed me to this article . Someone should warn BEST :-)  (Yes, I kn...

Let's face it: pay-to-view scientific publishing is dead, even though its zombie corpse is still staggering around, thrashing around ai...

I've been meaning to write about decadal prediction for some time, but kept on procrastinating, and the number of relevant papers has i...