For those, like me, who didn't know what these were before today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winogra...

The apparent jump in arctic growth rate at the start of December is likely an artifact of how the rate is calculated using a low order polynomial fit. Do not read too much into it.

How is adding car lanes part of a car free Olympics transportation plan?

The damped driven harmonic oscillator is the basic building block model of a stable system with one dynamic quantity. Do you have an example that is as simple? Are you sure it can't be reduced to a driven oscillator?

Are we sure it is thermostasis and not oppositional defiant disorder?

Or it's an artifact of smoothing the data. This is the same graph using a 14 day window to smooth the data and estimate the rate of change.

A missed opportunity to make the most of when your plane to Spain flew up above the rain.