Small temperature changes can move entire ecosystems. The data looked like noise until someone plotted it on a log scale. The experiment was cheap, clever and took eleven years.
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The experiment was cheap, clever and took eleven years. Every answer here comes with a better question attached. A good analogy carries you halfway and then needs to be dropped.
A good analogy carries you halfway and then needs to be dropped. Every answer here comes with a better question attached.
Getting started
Small temperature changes can move entire ecosystems. The experiment was cheap, clever and took eleven years. Nature rarely uses one mechanism when three will do. Scale changes everything: what works for a cell fails for a whale.
- Look for the energy budget
- Follow the error bars
- Check the scale
- Separate model from reality
Every answer here comes with a better question attached. The data looked like noise until someone plotted it on a log scale.
What worked
We know the rules well; the surprises live at the edges. A good analogy carries you halfway and then needs to be dropped. History is full of correct ideas that waited decades for evidence. The math is elegant, but the instrument is the real hero.
History is full of correct ideas that waited decades for evidence. The simple explanation is wrong in an interesting way.
The experiment was cheap, clever and took eleven years. Every answer here comes with a better question attached.
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