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Papa Maccus Primus

Fairytale Units btw is the SI name for anything in the Imperial measuring system.* Based on the fact that imperial not only is a witch's brew of childish units that don't go together, but also that things are based on barley corns. Barley corns. One inch was originally defined as three barley corns, and if that isn't some fairytale shit I don't know what is.

*no need to look it up, just accept it as true.
#imperial #SI #measurements #standards #science

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

John McPhee’s Short Essay About A 1972 Rockefeller Civil Service Award Winner - Dr. Luna Leopold, The First Chief Hydrologist At The USGS
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jfklibrary.org/archives/other- <--JFK's 1958 speech at the Rockerfeller Civil Service Awards
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usgs.gov/news/featured-story/l <-- shared details of Dr. Luna Leopold from the USGS
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fiddlrts.blogspot.com/2020/04/ <-- shared details of The Patch, by John McPhee
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eos.org/opinions/luna-b-leopol <--shared EOS retrospective of Dr Leopold
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I was reading - with a mug of tea - The Patch (link above) by John McPhee, a decades-old favourite author of mine - and came across this short essay amongst many fine others…
#spatial #datalover #measurements #metrics #hydrology #water #fedservice #fedscience #LunaLeopold #hydrologist #crossdiscipline #RockefellerCivilServiceAward #USGS #JohnMcPhee #writing #readingforpleasure #mission #opendata #mapping #waterresources #watersecurity #wateruse #watermanagement
@USGS

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Skullvalanche

Look, I'm sure there are reasons to ever have a logarithmic scale for measuring things, but there's a lot of scales out there in the world which are completely unintuitive to humans when it comes to quickly understanding something.

Decibels? Utterly unintuitive.
Earthquakes? nope.
Scoville scale? garbage.
Schmidt sting pain index? useless.

I have invented the Skullvalanche Scale Usability Index (SSUI) to rank how useful these scales are.

Rankings are 1 to 10.
1 being "nobody would understand this, possibly including the person who invented it"
10 being “anyone who can count to 10 would understand this"

Now I will rank the aforementioned scales.

Decibels: 3
Earthquakes: 4
Scovilles: 3
Schmidt: 2

#scales#science#measurements
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Sally Strange

Today I learned that an acre, today defined as 43,560 square feet, was originally a measure of the area a yoke of oxen could plow in one day. Wikipedia says that would be 8 oxen. Anyway, that's why an acre is not square, but was traditionally a rectangle: one chain (66 ft) by one furlong (660 ft). An acre that was square would be ~208.7 ft on each edge

#TIL#Measurements
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MPI für Meteorologie

🥁 Drum roll for our PERCUSION team: Around 40 scientists from 8 institutions are currently gathered here in #Hamburg to wrap up the recent campaign, which involved the aircraft #HALO ✈️ and the satellite #EarthCARE 🛰️ . We are using this final workshop to brainstorm cloud formation ☁️ , doldrums, precipitation efficiency, 🌧️ and outline upcoming papers to present our findings. ➡️ Find an overview of PERCUSION on our website: mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication
#MPIM #measurements #climate #science

Two scientists are pinning notes onto a board, which is overwritten with "EarthCARE validation".
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Jack Linke 🦄

I spent a way, way, waaaaaaaay too much time on this new package version 😬

Almost a complete rewrite.

But I am so happy with the result.

- Much better tested and reliable.
- Lots more functionality.
- The most detailed usage guide you'll ever see.

django-pint-field: Store, validate, and convert physical quantities in Django using Pint.

I'll write about it this weekend and post again once I do.

pypi.org/project/django-pint-f

PyPIdjango-pint-fieldUnit Conversion fields for Django and Postgres
#Django#DjangoPackages#Measurements
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Soh Kam Yung

"Physicists have demonstrated all the ingredients of a nuclear clock — a device that keeps time by measuring tiny energy shifts inside an atomic nucleus. Such clocks could lead to vast improvements in precision measurements, as well as new insights into fundamental physics."

nature.com/articles/d41586-024

www.nature.com‘Nuclear clock’ breakthrough paves the way for super-precise timekeepingPhysicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
#Clocks#NuclearClocks#Timing
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