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here be dragons: Nature - Island Chris - 04-01-2015
Interesting, and "timely"
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/520042a.html?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews
Chris
poisson d'avril
RE: here be dragons: Nature - Skywise - 04-01-2015
(04-01-2015, 03:37 PM)Island Chris Wrote: poisson d'avril
Who you callin' a fish?
My french is rusty. Well, only took one year of it.... 30 years ago.
Brian
RE: here be dragons: Nature - Island Chris - 04-02-2015
Hi Brian,
poisson d'avril means "April Fools", and I had to Google it to spell it correctly. I wanted to put this because I wanted people to read it before realizing what it was. I should not admit it, but it had me going until I got to "abundance of knights".
Chris
RE: here be dragons: Nature - Island Chris - 04-02-2015
Forgot to say, the Journal Nature published a paper about tiny people hunting tiny elephants and being hunted by giant lizards, and on the other article about that article, said that it was NOT a joke. That was wild enough that I was a bit too open to dragons. That was the Flores Island "Hobbits" of a decade (?) ago.
Still the last snow patch in our yard.
Chris
RE: here be dragons: Nature - Skywise - 04-03-2015
(04-02-2015, 10:39 AM)Island Chris Wrote: Hi Brian,
poisson d'avril means "April Fools", and I had to Google it to spell it correctly.
And I had to google translate it back!!
I could figure out it was "fish of" something... totally blanked that "avril" is french for April. duh! So I guess in France, they call you a fish if you're a fool.
Hmmmm... does that mean a Poisson distribution tells you where to expect to find fish?
The article was a hoot. There was plenty of April Fool's stuff online yesterday.
Brian