Monthly Archives: April 2009

Ammann’s April Fool’s Joke

Apr 2, 2009 – 7:17 AM

Yesterday, the Economist had an amusing April Fool’s joke, announcing an “Econoland” theme park that “combines the magic of a theme park with the excitement of macroeconomics”. AS PART of a strategy designed to broaden the revenue base, leverage content over new platforms and promote The Economist brand to a young and dynamic audience, The […]

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A Shout Out to Dennis Wingo

Apr 1, 2009 – 1:10 PM

CA reader and commenter Dennis Wingo laconically mentioned the other day that he’d managed to reconstruct early images of the Earth from the moon. The story has received some excellent and very favorable publicity. Dennis wrote to CA: I have been doing some reconstructions of lunar images from the mid 1960’s and reconstructed the famous […]

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Spirit Cave, Thailand

Apr 1, 2009 – 10:42 AM

A delayed report from Thailand on our trip to the Spirit Cave near the Burma border. Speleothems have become a popular proxy in the past decade, making up many new contestants in Mann et al 2008. We’ve discussed speleothems on numerous occasions, making reference to Jud Partin’s speleo in Borneo, a number of Chinese speleos […]

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