Todd Hoff

"This article introduces features to simulation code presented in previous articles: Now, bodies immersed within the fluid float or sink depending on the mass of fluid the body displaces. This new feature augments how visual effects have a two-way interaction with physical objects in the simulation." - Todd Hoff

"England’s traffic in intoxicants between 1580 and 1740, both domestic and international, can be best traced through port books. As such, me and my fellow Research Associate Tim Wales have spent the last six months – and will spend the next two – trawling through the relevant collection (E 190) at The National Archives for our respective case studies (Cheshire and Norfolk), doggedly on the trail of intoxicant-related commodities for our first research strand, and associated dataset, on the Economy of Intoxicants and Intoxication." - Todd Hoff

How cool is that? - Todd Hoff

"On the flip side of the coin, climate contrarians have predicted anything from minimal warming to rapid global cooling. Their predictions have generally been terribly inaccurate, and yet the same people who have made these wrong predictions are still treated as credible experts by certain segments of the media. It seems as though their history of inaccurate predictions has no effect on their credibility. When scientists with a history of inaccurate predictions are treated with the same credibility as those who have made accurate predictions, that’s a problem." - Todd Hoff

Guess funds Dana Nuccitelli ? http://www.bbc.com/news... - Eric Logan

I personally think arguing over what the climate is or is not doing because we have such a little ability to change it is like a crust of bread fallen on a stove arguing with another crust whether the stove is getting hotter or colder. What to me the real issue we can do something about is responsible living on earth. - RetiredTeacherD

When it is financially viable which may be sooner than many expected if oil prices continue to slide. We will transition to something other than fossil fuels because it will be a real economic imperative. All the hand wringing and warning won't change anything globally because the majority of the world is energy impoverished. - Eric Logan

"One of the names they invoke most often is Wei-Hock Soon, known as Willie, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims that variations in the sun’s energy can largely explain recent global warming. He has often appeared on conservative news programs, testified before Congress and in state capitals, and starred at conferences of people who deny the risks of global warming. But newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon’s work has been tied to funding he received from corporate interests. He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work." - Todd Hoff

"ustralian farm yard, Ovens River. 1870. Photograph of an early Australian farm scene. Shows bushland in background, a woman with two small children, haystacks, a man operating a horsedrawn plough, a bullock team and a second man watching l.r. From State Library Victoria Collection." - Todd Hoff

Good luck! - Stephen Mack

Thanks. It doesn't do that much, it's a first try type of thing, so I'm hoping they are gentle :-) - Todd Hoff

"Sculptor Beth Cavener Stichter carves dramatic, expressive human-size animals from clay which exhibit the extremes of human characteristics and emotions. She has goats, wolves, lambs, snakes and rabbits display acts of greed, betrayal and jealousy. Using the malleable nature of clay, Stichter produces wonderfully sensitive pieces loaded with drama and theatricality." - Todd Hoff

i can't decide if i like them or find them kitsch. a bit of both, i guess. - grizabella

Same for me - Todd Hoff

"January 2015 was the second warmest January since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Thursday. NASA also rated January 2015 as the 2nd warmest January on record, behind January 2007, which had the warmest departure from average of any month in recorded history. January 2015's near-record warmth continues a trend of very warm months for the planet--December 2014 was the warmest December on record, and 2014 was Earth's warmest calendar year on record. Global ocean temperatures during January 2015 were the 3rd warmest on record, and global land temperatures were the 2nd warmest on record. Global satellite-measured temperatures in January 2015 for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the 7th or 5th warmest in the 37-year record, according to Remote Sensing Systems and the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH), respectively." - Todd Hoff

"SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA—What do the Sahara desert and the Amazon rainforest have in common? Until recently, archaeologists would have told you they were both inhospitable environments devoid of large-scale human settlements. But they were wrong. Here today at the annual meeting of the AAAS (which publishes Science), two researchers explained how remote sensing technology, including satellite imaging and drone flights, is revealing the traces of past civilizations that have been hiding in plain sight." - Todd Hoff

Scientists have known for a while that Sahara is a fairly new desert, though. And the Garamantes have been known since they were out there doing the damn thing. - Eivind

"Solar power technologies are the focus of voluminous research efforts, and now a team of scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. are developing a prototype 3D printed “tree” which also uses a novel gravure and screen printing process to collect solar energy. The trees are capable of harvesting solar energy indoors or outdoors, storing it and creating enough electric power to run small devices such as mobile phones and LED lighting." - Todd Hoff

"Ten years ago, Fristrup set out to measure an important natural resource - the amount of silence in national parks. He eventually realized it would take forever to actually make recordings throughout all the parks, so he used a computer program to model loudness across the country. He uploaded all the audio he already had (over a million hours of sound from 546 recording sites) along with environmental data - proximity to roads, the type of vegetation, any nearby topographical features that might act as sound barriers etc. The computer “learned” how all these factors interacted to create a specific sound level, and then predicted loudness everywhere." - Todd Hoff

"As if we weren’t functioning well enough with high-tech progress in our 2D world, along came 3D design and 3D printing as we outdid ourselves—and continue to do so—with a multitude of inventions and indeed, a new world of technology and a revolution ushering in a new industrial age. That’s not enough though. And as we head into the fourth dimension, science lovers can certainly only give thanks for infinity and the possibilities for a never-ending platform of dimensions. And what innovations will they usher in?" - Todd Hoff

#фитюльки #свет - Maхx Tee

This hurts my brain. Mapping stereographic projections doesn't make a lot of sense to me. - Todd Hoff

I would think your carpenter would request Tim Hardin. - Greg GuitarBuster

"Finally, after a multi-organ transplant gave her a new liver, pancreas and small bowel when she was 15, Smith tentatively ate a banana. The slight 24-year-old has since become a "bottomless pit" for food, according to her mother, Ann. Even with a working digestive system, it took a long time for hunger to develop. She only started feeling it in the last six months. With only a few months' experience of hunger, she's not always sure what the feeling is. (She has also struggled with cutlery, having never learned how to use it as a child, the concept of time—with no clear mealtimes as anchors—and chocolate, because of its texture). Her story is told in one of the exhibits and she was on hand at the show's opening." - Todd Hoff

"The three stone fire is used in most kitchens in Cameroon, both urban and rural to prepare daily meals for the family. In Cameroon 73.5% of the population are using wood as fuel for cooking?  Only 16% use improved cook stoves. (source: http://www.cleancookstoves.org/countri...) I have had many conversations with women who wish to use a better stove; the barriers I saw are: large, heavy pots that are commonly used don’t get enough heat and are poorly supported on readily available energy-saving cookstoves even when a gas stove is present, these large pots are inefficiently heated and therefore this option is too costly women are not familiar with improved cook stoves" - Todd Hoff

"Scientists pinpoint how penguins may have lost their ability to sense sweet, umami, and bitter flavors." - Todd Hoff

"How warm? So far this month, there have been 4,074 records set for warm temperatures —- mostly in the West — and only 236 records for cold temperatures, the NCDC reported. Records for warm temperatures have been set in Seattle, San Jose, Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City and Butte, Mont. In Salt Lake City, the average temperature in February is a whopping 16.4 degrees above average, AccuWeather said. Other warm spots include Boise (12.2 degrees above average) and Phoenix (8 degrees above average). The lack of cold and snow is exacerbating California's severe drought. California's snowpack (snow water equivalent) is currently only 27% of normal, according to the California Department of Water Resources." - Todd Hoff

Same. - Eivind

"The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it." - Todd Hoff

I look forward to the next article: What ThinkProgress Gets Dangerously Wrong About The Atlantic - Todd Hoff

"Schoolboys forget their books, lose their pens and laugh at dirty jokes. This was true even in the rigorous atmosphere of the Anglo-Saxon classroom." - Todd Hoff

Years ago I would have attended a CB Radio Workshop. - Mike Nencetti

It's a little tacky, but not bad. - Todd Hoff

Theatre of the Mind, they have lots of different shows. I'll be listening to many of them. I've always loved old time radio. - Todd Hoff

They used to play old time radio shows on the Armed Forces Radio station when I was a kid. I liked the detective stories the best. "The Shadow Knows....." - DB, Lil LB's Dad

"First, starting with the first moment, we find that average earnings growth over the life cycle varies strongly with the level of lifetime earnings: the median individual by lifetime earnings experiences an earnings growth of 38% from ages 25 to 55, whereas for individuals in the 95th percentile, this figure is 230%; for those in the 99th percentile, this figure is almost 1500%.3 Second, turning to the third moment (postponing the second moment for now), we see that earnings shocks are negatively skewed, and this skewness becomes more severe as individuals get older or their earnings increase (or both). Furthermore, this increasing negativity is due entirely to upside earnings moves becoming smaller from ages 25 to 45, and to increasing “disaster” risk (the risk of a sharp fall in earnings) after age 45. Although these implications may appear quite plausible, they are not captured by a lognormal specification, which implies zero skewness. Third, studying the fourth (standardized) moment, we find that earnings changes display very high kurtosis. What kurtosis measures is most easily understood by looking at the histogram of log earnings changes, shown in Figure 1 (left panel: annual change; right panel: five-year change). Notice the sharpness in the peak of the empirical density," - Todd Hoff

http://www.newyorkfed.org/researc... - Todd Hoff

"This is, to my knowledge, the most extensive and robust phylogeny for the Lumbricidae done to date, analysing the relationships between 86 species from 28 genera. It does both a molecular phylogeny and a morphological one, although external morphological characters proved to be too homoplastic and unreliable, so only the molecular phylogeny is considered here." - Todd Hoff

Just an amazing garden. Wish I could do that sort of thing here, but our trees have already matured. - Todd Hoff

My wife has been talking up permaculture to me for the last year -- I should probably start paying attention. - Sean McBride

"I was noodling around with some graphics code the other day to try to produce some schematic representations of water waves for a book that I'm working on.  I wanted to produce a little animation of what happens when you throw a stone into a pond.  It didn't have to be very flashy, I just wanted it to be qualitatively correct, that is, I wanted to produce a drawing of a wave that spread out from a central source and decreased in amplitude with time and distance from the source.  So I started out with the venerable sin(x)/x function:" - Todd Hoff

Do robotic sleeping dogs lie? - Aloof Schipperke

I think I agree with the last part, so I guess you could be cruel to a current robot dog if you've thoroughly caninopomorphized it :) - Eivind