Book reviews for July 2018
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) by Ann Leckie
4/5
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) by Ann Leckie
4/5
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch #3) by Ann Leckie
4/5
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What if the Senate Voted Proportionally to Population
This is massively less likely than sorting out the Electoral College, but imagine for a minute that 100 Senators woke up tomorrow and decided to do the right thing.
Dianne Feinstein, the senior Senator from California would wield 6.04 votes. Mike Enzi, the senior Senator from Wyoming would have to make do with 0.09 votes.
Overall a party line vote would see 55.85 Democratic votes to 44.15 Republican, assuming normal independent caucusing habits. Not quite a supermajority, but enough to not send Kavanaugh to The Supreme Court for instance.
This is based on 2010 census figures from Wikipedia.
Not going to happen, but find my estimate of your State's fair voting power by Senator below.
| State | Votes per Senator |
|---|---|
| California | 6.04 |
| Texas | 4.08 |
| Florida | 3.05 |
| New York | 3.14 |
| Pennsylvania | 2.06 |
| Illinois | 2.08 |
| Ohio | 1.87 |
| Georgia | 1.57 |
| North Carolina | 1.55 |
| Michigan | 1.6 |
| New Jersey | 1.43 |
| Virginia | 1.3 |
| Washington | 1.09 |
| Arizona | 1.04 |
| Massachusetts | 1.06 |
| Tennessee | 1.03 |
| Indiana | 1.05 |
| Missouri | 0.97 |
| Maryland | 0.94 |
| Wisconsin | 0.92 |
| Colorado | 0.82 |
| Minnesota | 0.86 |
| South Carolina | 0.75 |
| Alabama | 0.78 |
| Louisiana | 0.74 |
| Kentucky | 0.7 |
| Oregon | 0.62 |
| Oklahoma | 0.61 |
| Connecticut | 0.58 |
| Iowa | 0.49 |
| Utah | 0.45 |
| Arkansas | 0.47 |
| Nevada | 0.44 |
| Mississippi | 0.48 |
| Kansas | 0.46 |
| New Mexico | 0.33 |
| Nebraska | 0.3 |
| West Virginia | 0.3 |
| Idaho | 0.25 |
| Hawaii | 0.22 |
| New Hampshire | 0.21 |
| Maine | 0.22 |
| Rhode Island | 0.17 |
| Montana | 0.16 |
| Delaware | 0.15 |
| South Dakota | 0.13 |
| North Dakota | 0.11 |
| Alaska | 0.12 |
| Vermont | 0.1 |
| Wyoming | 0.09 |
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Book reviews for June 2018
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
5/5
Spoiler alert: we still don't know. Excellent review of the history of quantum mechanics and how we should think about science.
Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths (Ribbonfarm Roughs) by Venkatesh G. Rao
3/5
Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
3/5
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Update April 19, 2020: I made a longer, higher resolution version which you can find here.
Here's an animation showing a year of global cloud cover (from July 2017 to July 2018) :
The clouds are sourced from the free daily download at xplanet. I run a Google apps script that saves a copy of the image to Google Drive every day (basically the same as this script to save Nest cam images). The hard part was waiting a year to get enough frames. Xplanet combines GEOS, METEOSAT and GMS satellite imagery with some reflection near the poles. Although I didn't need to for this project note that you can subscribe to higher quality / more frequent downloads.
As well as the clouds you can also see the terminator between day and night change shape over the course of the year. This video starts and ends with the Summer equinox when days are longest in the Northern hemisphere.
Where it's nighttime the image is based on NASA's Black Marble. The daytime is based on Blue Marble, but blended with a different older image which has better ocean colors and interpolated daily between twelve monthly Blue Marble satellite images. The result of this is that you can see snow and ice coverage changing over the course of the year. If you look closely you'll also notice vegetation growing and dying back with the seasons.
Rendered in a slightly modified build of Catfood Earth (the main release doesn't know how to access my private cache of xplanet cloud images). As well as combining day, night and cloud images Catfood Earth can also show you earthquakes, volcanoes, US weather radar, political borders, places and time zones. It has been enlivening Windows desktop wallpaper for fifteen years now (as shareware back when that was a thing, these days it's a free download for Windows and Android).
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Summer Solstice 2018
Summer starts now in the Northern Hemisphere and the Sun is at its highest point in the sky. For those in the Southern Hemisphere I'm sorry to report that the opposite is true. Rendered in Catfood Earth.
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