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German environmental physicist, currently doing volcanology / air pollution research and running remote sensing on board an aircraft.
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kaybe··on Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people
As long as you can look into it from the street you'll have some benefit at least. Walking along other people's gardens can be quite relaxing too as long as high walls are not allowed.
kaybe··on Poll: What book should I write?
That sounds like it could also be a series of blog posts, twitter posts or whatever that is then sold in book form. Depending on the popularity this might work as well - there are many examples.
kaybe··on Increase in hepatitis of unknown origin in children
You don't need to worry about unknown radioactive exposure. We have a very good monitoring system that will detect even very minor releases once they become distributed. The reporting channels in the west are trustworthy too.

In addition we have widespread atmospheric monitoring as well. You can circumvent that by releasing only substances that are not watched, but I don't think that's that easy, and you'd have to do it intentionally. Eg anything connected with fire will show up.

kaybe··on Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished
So it's fine to just take another one then?
kaybe··on Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
Some of them used to make noise. Ours stopped for a while when you gave it a whack from above.
kaybe··on Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males
That's what you have students for.
kaybe··on Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let writers leave until they are finished
Unless it's umbrellas. I probably don't understand some social custom here, but what should I call it when I leave my umbrella at the entrance and it is gone when I come back 5 minutes later...
kaybe··on A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem
When you start out, it might be a lot of items. The question is how often they renew.
kaybe··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
Sounds like the expensive sound setup should be used to do active noise cancelling around the head part of the bed.
kaybe··on Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
Sounds like you should offer up your lawn as well.
kaybe··on The Museum of Endangered Sounds
It's at least as much a byproduct of bad city planning and car-centric design, I'd say.
kaybe··on Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record
There are no soils to speak of. That will be difficult.
kaybe··on Please, delete all new places since the start of war 23th of February
I fully expect them to be on the side of the US, always. Why would you think otherwise?
kaybe··on Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly
The data I saw suggested these people are actually significantly cheaper in total for society since they die so much earlier. YMMV depending on the details of your social system of course.
kaybe··on How big was the Tonga eruption?
Oh, nice! Moving around gives a really good feeling for map projection too.
kaybe··on How big was the Tonga eruption?
How about this tool?

https://evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me/

Granted, it's the Evergiven, but how hard would it be to exchange the image?

kaybe··on The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
The coldest they become is body temperature under the blanket. It would only have a chance to become colder than its surroundings if the water had a way to evaporate, which it doesn't.
kaybe··on I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control
You can. I do and I know multiple people who have. You can also get it printed on a piece of plastic in many of the quicktest locations.
kaybe··on Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests
It helps that most things I've seen so far are pretty high value per volume such as more expensive vegetables.
kaybe··on The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)
In Sicily in narrow crossings where you don't have the right of way but cannot see you can slowly inch forward, and if someone is around the corner they will honk at you to let you know to wait.
kaybe··on Wolves make roadways safer
You don't have wild pigs in the UK?
kaybe··on Most who want simple ‘bonsai’ trees are ill-served by traditional bonsai methods
That would be Kusamono.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusamono_and_shitakusa

kaybe··on How trains could replace planes in Europe
CO2 being good for plant growth can mean it's bad for forest CO2 sequestration, since the wrong plants take over.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-strange-case-of-the-liana...

kaybe··on How my genius roommate changed my perspective
That doesn't sound fair. I don't think the army would have been successful with the ointment alone. Ointment doesn't make you a competent army commander. You can make the same argument with most things - food, a warm cloak, knowledge about the weather.. all those things that make survival and even comfort possible.
kaybe··on How spies are caught (2001)
I mean.. I just followed a seminar talk about methane emission detection from an aircraft in the US. For this you often fly in lines to cover an area fully.

The speaker finished up with a screenshot from a youtube video where an UFO enthusiast actually followed the aircraft by car and came to the airport to look at it. It didn't help that the aircraft was rented from a company that usually rents to military.

40k views on a video that claims they released radioactive insects on that flight. (It was a spectrometer onboard...) The video is gone now, and we can only speculate what the people behind it think about that. How does one deal with this in a satisfying manner?

40k views on a video about methane emission detection would be amazing! A fraction of those 40k people in the area with knowledge of the problem and the same enthusiasm could probably easily stop all these emissions as well.

(Apart from that.. if anyone wonders.. talk to us! (and please don't seem like a nutjob..) This is research paid by your taxes and on your behalf, and if you come with journalistic interest we might just open the doors and, y'know, let you have a very close look at things.)

kaybe··on “Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer”
You were lucky if you didn't have to learn a whole 'nother language first too, just saying. :-)
kaybe··on 'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy
Youtube-sensei has massively improved the situation though, especially if you're not playing around with dangerous stuff.
kaybe··on 'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy
The one advantage of uneven walls and non-90° corners is that my DIY fixes to everything fits in nicely and even looks good when done with care. Everything is easier to fix.
kaybe··on Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (2018)
To be fair, under stress and lack of sleep intelligence does go down and it only takes one mistake.
kaybe··on Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
As a woman often travelling alone, it was ruined around that time for me too. Things started to feel very much unsafe where it was fine before.
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