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CDC Data Visualization
Raw data is nice, but can be hard to visualize. The CDC link at the bottom provides the data, but also a variety of ways…
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Other Vaccine Effectiveness
I got the Covid vaccine as soon as I could. I think I might have been vaccinated earlier but for the manner in which the local government picked folks to vaccinate – I wasn’t sitting by the phone when…
Amorous Beetles
Much like humans, male jewel beetles are visual creatures. What really gets them in the mood for love is the sight of a female. Or something that looks a lot like a female…
Measuring Migration
When you work with Census data, migration numbers can be very precise – but the 10 years between each Census often make the data obsolete. As demographers, we had to find ways to work around that – and U-Haul had the websites that let me better understand and explain migration. For example, if I price renting a 15’ truck in Bakersfield, California, heading to Eureka, Montana, I get a price quote of $5,173 today. On the other hand, it costs $1,109 to rent the same truck in Eureka and drive it to Bakersfield. If I want to see beautiful Bend,…
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin
Four-Stresses to Kill a Weed
It’s probably 25 years ago that I sat in class and heard the general rule “It takes four stresses to kill a weed.” By that I figure it takes four stresses to kill any plant – and I’m looking at my little alfalfa seedlings with a lot of sympathy. They have experienced moisture stress. I…
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Dumplings for Women
Jeeta Kant and I both did research on Hutterites – as did several others at SDSU. In her Hutterite Community Cookbook, one of the recipes was “Dumplings for Women.” I had meant to ask her the significance of a specific recipe for women’s food – there is also a recipe titled “Waffles for Women.” It looks like I won’t get the chance to ask the question, or get an answer from her – and I doubt if the ingredients will provide an answer – but if you can figure out why these are women’s dumplings, hit the comments and answer…
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