The plural of anecdote is data Part II

Considering the tweets during the 2011 Virginia earthquake.  Mapping the twitter activity (anecdotal) about the earthquake shows clearly the waves travelling out from the epicenter, as well as the very quick re-tweeting that spread the information about it worldwide, faster than any other technology of the time.

tl:dr Twitter (anecdotal evidence) shows clearly that the plural of anecdotes is data.

The Internet map

The Internet map

Where I spend far too much time

Climatic History

This topic is so huge, and so changing, I can't do it justice at the moment.

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

March 17 2011 NHK reported that the helicopters dumping water measured  375 R/hr at 300 ft. above the building
source enews
source enformable

The old way of measuring human dose rates was Rems, which the US still uses,  The international standard is Sieverts.

100 Rems = 1 Sievert

Visitors by OS

The current breakdown of visitors by Operating System.  Win95?  Seriously?

OS	Count
WinXP	10226 (35.87%)
WinNT6.1	6842 (24.00%)
WinNT6.0	5245 (18.40%)
Mac	4046 (14.19%)
Unknown	975 (3.42%)
Linux	657 (2.30%)
MacOSX	223 (0.78%)
WinNT	95 (0.33%)
Win2000	81 (0.28%)
WinNT5.2	79 (0.28%)
Win98	17 (0.06%)
MacPPC	8 (0.03%)
WinMe	6 (0.02%)
SunOS	2 (0.01%)
WinNT6.2	1 (0.00%)
Win95	1 (0.00%)
WinNT4.0	1 (0.00%)

Blood Without Fear, thanks limes and lemons

Some slightly random information from 2001. Scientists figure out how to purify all blood, using psoralens (SOAR-uh-linz), chemical compounds commonly found in fruits and vegetables, including figs, turnips, and citrus fruits/

On a bench top in hematologist Larry Corash's lab sits a white plastic box 31/2 feet long and 1 foot high, sporting a control panel and a computer screen. Corash slides a tray out of the box, lays two plastic bags of blood plasma on it, closes the tray, hits a button, and waits. In just three minutes the box hands him the purest plasma on Earth. Every blood-borne disease-causing virus and bacterium lurking in it has been destroyed. "The bugs," as Corash calls them, are dead. Discover Magazine 2001

Yes, naturally occurring compounds in fruits and veggies can purify blood.  They also can purify water.

Crown Flash - "New" Electromagnetic activity observed above Thunderstorm

Crown Flash - "New" Electromagnetic activity observed above Thunderstorm!  You may know my fascination with the electromagnetic activity above thunderstorms from the Sprite posts.  This "new" one seems to have a name already.  The YouTube videos (see links) are awesome visual evidence of something observed many times.  But as we see in science, observations are often dismissed (with no good reason), and it isn't until somebody gets a video or a picture that can't be scoffed away, that "the mainstream" grudgingly admits defeat.  (note that Wikipedia has no entry yet).  Phil Plait was also unaware of the term in his piece on the YT videos.

Links

Forgetomori

Amateur Science page

Google Scholar 

(more to come)