A Little More Web Kipple
‘Simulating Lightning‐Induced Tree Mortality in the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJ‐GUESS‘ (pdf) is a nice little read about simulating global tree death rates due to lighting strikes. The methods they use to validate their model are interesting and, while the number they come up with (301–340 million trees of a diameter of greater than 10cm) seems rather large, it pales when compared to their cited number of 50 billion trees killed by all combined natural causes.
It’s an old one but, from the jargon files, A Story About Magic.
NASA’s ‘Your Name In Landsat‘ is neat; it attempts to spell your name – or any other word you provide – in land features from satellite imagery as recorded by the Landsat satellite network.
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This is funky, the River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region is using the Vodafone mobile phone network as a virtual rain sensor. ISPReview has a short introduction
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The heroes likewise are strung along a spectrum from the hippie cop Frank Serpico, who nearly paid with his life for exposing the corruption of the New York force, to the uncouth ‘Popeye’ Doyle
The BFI website has quite a nice reprint (if that’s what we’re calling these things…) of a Spring 1974 article on the early 70’s explosion of US cop movies. Many of the movies talked about are ones that have passed me by and appear to have faded from memory, but it is interesting to see how films like Dirty Harry and Serpico were viewed and evaluated at the time.
Read Support Your Local Police Movie at the BFI website.
PNAS has an interesting paper on using AI and Machine Learning to try and identify new Nazca Pampa geoglyphs in the Peruvian Nazca Desert. It’s a fun little lunchtime skim with a few nice images of some of the newly found geoglyphs.
A nice short on how the British Film Institute uses 3D printing to maintain and improve it’s archiving tech.
This is a nice little introduction to UX design issues via the medium of Lego interface blocks: https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces/
So it turns out that North Yorkshire Council runs a set of weather station webcams and makes them available to view by the general public.
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