{"id":64347,"date":"2012-01-10T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:03:19","slug":"noisy-systems-and-wandering-canines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/10\/noisy-systems-and-wandering-canines\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisy Systems and Wandering Canines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three types of scientific explanations: those involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/evolution\/Yellow-Cat-Attemtps-to-Debunk-Creationist-Misconceptions.html\">cats<\/a>, those involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Teach-Relativity-Your-Dog\/dp\/0465023312\/\">dogs<\/a>, and those that aren&#8217;t very interesting.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/andrew-c-revkin\/?pagewanted=all\">Andrew Revkin<\/a>, here&#8217;s a well-done animation that uses a dog to explain the difference between a long-term trend and a short-term variation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0vj-0imOLw?fs=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Show this to your local climate denialist when they get confused about the distinction between &#8220;climate&#8221; and &#8220;weather.&#8221;  Not that it will change their minds, but the dog is cute. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oJh9zrBiopvre3DeFLgYIhryMX4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oJh9zrBiopvre3DeFLgYIhryMX4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oJh9zrBiopvre3DeFLgYIhryMX4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oJh9zrBiopvre3DeFLgYIhryMX4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CosmicVarianceBlog\/~4\/ao0_IkqoZ5c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three types of scientific explanations: those involving cats, those involving dogs, and those that aren&#8217;t very interesting. Via Andrew Revkin, here&#8217;s a well-done animation that uses a dog to explain the difference between a long-term trend and a short-term variation. Show this to your local climate denialist when they get confused about the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,1985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}