Category: Nature
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How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate models are often the subject of some intense controversy, so I popped the hood on them.
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Approximate Prescience & Design Loops
I’ve spent much of the past semester studying for an aerospace engineering degree primarily practicing building models. Engineers are behooved by the physical world to devise ways of modeling phenomena such as to understand and take advantage of them. The reality of the situation is, of course, that every model must approximate reality. Thus, we…
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Some Asymmetries
The world is brimming with symmetries. This is, in part, because humans love to observe symmetries in things. Many evolutionary biologists theorize that at some point, we (as living creatures) evolved to associate this phenomena with health. We ate plants with symmetrical leaves and berries, we admired the symmetries in others faces, we survived for…
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Moon Tracking
Why does the moon appear where it does in the sky? Why can we see it during the daytime sometime? When my mother asked me these questions while on a walk, with the daytime moon clearly looming some 400,000 kilometers away, I was frustrated by my lack of complete understanding of the path that the…
To Be Determined 