Historians (like me) need to take more into account than just the heat effects of the Sun in looking at solar terrestrial interaction.

MOmathewjowens.bsky.socialJun 19, 2024 8:16am

14C in tree rings tells us about the Sun in the distant past. But the data are problematic after ~1900 due to burning fossil fuels. And modern records only go back to ~1950. How do we bridge this gap? We can use 175-yrs of ground-based magnetometers. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Even if I someday accept that AI assisted searches are sometimes useful, I want to know I can turn it off. An option is udm14.com Anyone experienced with this search engine know pluses and minuses?

Get used to it. The cloud is the new company store and our debt only grows with each dependency. I owe my soul to Microsoft, you to Apple.

Herschel made his drawing on the beach. I took my photo from the top of the cliff.

Camera lucida drawing by John Herschel, 1831. Photo by me, 2023. Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight.

Fourteen essays on the historiography of the earth and environmental sciences, open access

I'm afraid most of those emails would not be kept! Historians of the future will have problems we cannot even anticipate.

Historians of Science: you may know a resource online, built by the Royal Society of London archivists, Science in the Making. Today, the archivists have unveiled a great addition: the 15,000 letters and other manuscripts of John Herschel (1792-1871). makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs/cor...

Fourteen essays on the historiography of the earth and environmental sciences, open access

What's cooking in the nuclear kitchen?