Let’s talk about the Weather
“I hope it is a warm sunny day.” If you hear this sentence, the speaker is likely talking about this Sunday, May 19th, graduation day. How often is graduation on a warm sunny day? The past five year’s weather for graduation: May 20, 2012, High 86, Low 54, with no precipitation. May 15, 2011, High 55, …Read the Rest…
Got Regulations?
The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering amending the standard identity for milk (21 CFR 131.110, 2012 ed).* A citizen petition** by the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation triggered this action. The International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation requested that the “nutritive sweetener” language in milk’s standard of identity, …Read the Rest…
Google’s Inactive Account Manager
The Inactive Account Manger is a new feature on Google which allows the account holder to specify what happens to their data when their account becomes inactive. The feature allows the user to determine when the account should be considered inactive, who will be contacted when the account becomes inactive, what each of those contacts may download, and finally if …Read the Rest…
Professor Jensen, Award Winning Limericist
April is National Poetry month. In celebration here are three limericks from our own Professor Erik Jensen. From the January 2013, Mini-Annual of Improbable Research: The judges have chosen a winner for last month’s Shoulder Sampling Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor the study “Should Styrene be Sampled on the Left …Read the Rest…
Arctic Sea Ice
It is spring in the Arctic. The ice is beginning to melt, according to the April 2nd Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis. This site gathers data about the increase and decrease of ice, and about ice fracturing, the Arctic Oscillation, sea level pressure, the thickness of the ice, and how many years of ice exist. …Read the Rest…
TED: The Editor’s Desk
TED: The Editor’s Desk, is the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) daily information publication. The BLS advertises that “…if you give The Editor’s Desk a few minutes a day, within a week you’ll sound pretty clever about economics, within a month you will be extremely well-informed about the economy, and within a year you will …Read the Rest…