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Celebrating a Century of Nonlinearity Across the GeosciencesVia EosImage caption: Interaction between deterministic nonlinearity and a random process, as illustrated by a snapshot of the time-dependent attractor of the Lorenz (1963) convection model perturbed by multiplicative noise. This snapshot shows a much more complex structure than the well-known time-independent strange attractor (“butterfly”) of the deterministic model. Credit: Modified from Figure 11 of Ghil (PDF), with permission from Elsevier

Yay for the Bay! In this series, for the month of February 2019, I’ll be featuring products from and around my stomping grounds, the San Francisco Bay Area. Why, yes, it amuses me to no end that whenever I need a tropical 🌴🍍 scent fix, the brand I usually turn to (H2O Plus) isn’t located someplace tropical. Instead, it’s based in San Francisco. I have no idea why this is so funny to me. 😂 I’m way too easily amused! H2O+ Beauty has been a fave of mine for ages. I actually started using them back when I lived in...

Unsolicited life tip: Do not keep your lipsticks in your pocket unless you want to sentence them to certain death. I’m wondering if there’s such a thing as “makeup Mercury in retrograde?” Or am I just cursed to never have another tube of Velvet Teddy again? Because this is the second tube of MAC Velvet Teddy I’ve mangled in less than a week! First there was the tube — which by the way, I’M NOT GOING TO USE — that fell in my toilet. I tossed it out and reordered a tube with the LE packaging from the MAC site....

You can go ahead and tell the awards committee that I’m ready to except my Genius of the Year Award 🙄 because I only recently — and by that I mean yesterday — realized that chamomile plants smell like chamomile tea. OK, I know, but it wasn’t obvious to me… TJ’s had these dainty white and yellow cut flowers that I thought were daisies at first, but nope, chamomile flowers. So I brought a bouquet home. I’ve never had a bouquet of chamomile flowers before, and when I was cutting them and putting them in a vase, they smelled just...

So…what is the Monday Poll? Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of five more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007). I love reading your answers, and it helps me get my week off to a good start. 1. What’s your favorite Thanksgiving side dish? Oh, easy question. All of them? I could happily nosh exclusively on the fixin’s and straight-up skip the turkey. But if I have to pick one…it’s mashed potatoes....