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Yesterday, Beryl was just a tropical storm; today it is a Cat 4 beast! The multiple news are describing hurricane Beryl as having rewritten the history book of records. Here is one from Axios providing the most horrifying details about this hurricane breaking records: “Stunning stat: “Hurricane Beryl took just 42 hours to go from…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a book EveryData and the data the author was using, specifically the relationship between amount of weekly exercise and mortality rate. The more hours a week you exercise, the lower your mortality rate is. But there was a curiosity in the data: Some people apparently were exercising…
Everyday is another day full of news about extreme weather and deathly heat. As I sit here in this sweltering room, I wonder if the malaise pervading through my body is related to the hot room or is something else. Maybe my mind is making it all up due to the numerous news coming across…
So, during my almost 2 months of poor internet access, I read a lot of books. One book I read was Behavioral Economics for Dummies by Morris Altman, which was an interesting psychological look at human behavior. I’m not going to dwell on a lot of the what the book has to say because it…
This spring feels more violent than usual. Starting in April, it seems like we had a couple of weeks in a row where storm action would begin in the west and then sweep through the Midwest, spawning devastating tornadoes: Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Tennessee, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Texas. I might be missing a couple…
I’m still having issues with my internet connection, so we’ll see how far I get today with this post. While my internet was completely down and before someone came out to fix it, which unfortunately took a while, I read a lot of books. A lot of books. So, I’m going to talk a little…