Thomas Lumley
@tslumley
Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him. Product of more than one country. May contain nuts.
I happened (for other reasons) to be looking today at something I wrote in 2005 on relative risks, which I think is still a relevant point
Apparently we're all descended from a group with no modern descendants? [they actually mean some group where we have no ancient DNA, in contrast to Neanderthals and Denisovans]
That specific one looks like Queensland, but they have been used in Melbourne, eg,
Rainbow weather [derogatory] "... placed his bow in the sky as a sign that he would be shooting small but annoyingly intense rain showers"
Some nice Melbourne architecture: one of the oldest surviving arcades, with a pretty glass roof Also: I go for Thai soup, either tom yum (spicy) or tom kha (lemony), depending on symptoms
A beautiful chemical structure: The part on the left is a steroid, which has a bizarre hydrocarbon tail with a fluorinated flag on the end. Since this is an actual drug, not an AI nightmare, the steroid must be binding to some steroid receptor and the tail must be there to cause trouble... 1/2
A ranking of most highly cited publications by a database of climate science research interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/data/...
Their Australian relatives look a lot more like European robins (no, autocorrupt, not robots).
I have a Proper British Passport from way back in 1989 that does not have a separate field for sex but does have Mr in my name. I don't know if eg Dr was used when appropriate. The section on "accompanying children" does have a field for sex.
Here's the other Dunedin, at the other end of the world, where it's midday on the winter solstice (from a couple of webcams)
Auckland sunset, looking like the sort of layered drink you would definitely regret
The American Diabetes Assoc also has an idiosyncratic definition of "choices", it seems
They might just call it "post-mortem communications" but it's necromancy
If you feel like loafing around next Monday (or the following Monday in parts of the West Island)
Less carnivorous-looking than the Chihuly ones, but still reassuring that they're stuck to the ceiling