Category Archives: The wonderful world of science
Greek letters. It’s sciencier.
So I’m staring at this unfinished paper of mine. The idea is that if I stare at it for long enough, it’ll cease being unwritten. There’s this thing that might be important in said paper. There’s a kind of electric … Continue reading
How not to organize your radar data files
So, in this PhD thingy I have some radar data files to work with. Not too hard, is it? A single radar beam, which records data in N-second batches. So we get a nice time series containing a sequence of … Continue reading
Waves in clouds, caused by mountaims
The life and ramblings of Mr. Skjæveland
I’ve been plotting revenge today.
The life and ramblings of Mr. Skjæveland
Frozen can
If you leave a can of fizzy drink in a too cold fridge, so that it freezes, the CO2 will be released from the water and go into the gas pocket in the can, right? Right. And this will increase … Continue reading
New job!
Since I’ve announced it everywhere else, I might as well say it here, too: I’ve got a new job. At New Year’s, I’ll be moving to Longyearbyen to study polar cap patches, an obscure phenomenon in dayside northern lights. If … Continue reading
First post!
Admittedly, only a meagre fourth author, but still, first post! Admittedly, only a meagre fourth author, but still, first post!
Half a brain
One of the incrediblest things I’ve heard in a while: over a hundred children have had half their brains surgically removed as treatment of extreme seizures. Apparently it works remarkably well. One of the incrediblest things I’ve heard in a … Continue reading
Conversation pieces I need
So another thing I decide that the world needs: A CAT scan of my head, used to construct a 3D model of my skull. Said model is fed to a 3D printer. Repeat, only this time use an MRI scan … Continue reading
And after tea, you have an appointment to destroy the Earth, sir.
Finally, somebody took the trouble to enumerate and rank the various methods for destroying the Earth. Finally, somebody took the trouble to enumerate and rank the various methods for destroying the Earth.
Kingdom of Loathing