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Interesting Links for 25-01-2022
Jan. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm- What are the most watched TV shows of the 21st century so far? (in the UK)
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- Accountability needs transparency, and both need to be enforceable by legal remedies
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- No, £30 for a leg of lamb isn't expensive. Quite the opposite
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- How botnets pushed a bigoted hashtag to Westminster
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- How big was the Tonga eruption? (visualised over various countries)
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- Imam appointed to define Islamophobia has had no meaningful engagement from ministers
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- Chicago sets its train tracks on fire when it's this cold
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- Boris Johnson praised a seven-year-old who cancelled their birthday party - and then had his own less than three months later
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- North Korea has communist dolphin soldiers poised and ready to attack!
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- Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile
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- Why chefs are turning to artificial intelligence to discover new flavours
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Is this a warmer January than usual?
Jan. 25th, 2022 04:15 pmAdam was discusing this morning how unreasonably warm it felt. And, while it felt that way to me too, I don't trust my memory, and so wanted to go find some hard data.
There is a (possibly multiple) Met Office sensors in Edinburgh, but they don't make the historical information generally available for it. Nobody is making it available for free, and buying it was going to cost me about £7.
So instead I found a website that got the data using API calls and left their API key in the URL, fudged the API call to get the date ranges I wanted, turned the 15-odd daily readings into a minimum/maximum/average for each January for the last 22 years, and dropped it into a graph (I love how easy this stuff is nowadays).
And now you can see that, indeed, things are a lot warmer than last January, and also warmer than the average January since 2000!
There is a (possibly multiple) Met Office sensors in Edinburgh, but they don't make the historical information generally available for it. Nobody is making it available for free, and buying it was going to cost me about £7.
So instead I found a website that got the data using API calls and left their API key in the URL, fudged the API call to get the date ranges I wanted, turned the 15-odd daily readings into a minimum/maximum/average for each January for the last 22 years, and dropped it into a graph (I love how easy this stuff is nowadays).
And now you can see that, indeed, things are a lot warmer than last January, and also warmer than the average January since 2000!