I’m just back from a bit of a busman’s holiday in California, so US weather is on my mind. No anecdotes though – instead, here is an instructive example of the bad kind of data mining.
Suppose I wanted to convince people that temperature in the USA wasn’t going up, it was going down. What would I show? Let’s try yearly average temperature in the conterminous U.S., also known as the “lower 48 states” (I’ll just call it “USA”):
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Since the big discovery of 2012, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been accumulating data and making steady progress. Two recent results establish the origins of the mass of the two heaviest quarks
The visitor centre at the ALICE experiment on the CERN Large Hadron Collider Photograph: Jon Butterworth
At the Guardian.
Audio documentary by Robin Ince and Trent Burton at the Cosmic Shambles network.
Interview on BBC Inside Science.
Christos Touramanis, Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry and me, visiting protoDUNE at CERN.
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