Archive for April, 2008

Snow survey in the Soddie Watershed 2008: results

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Snow survey results are in! I'm sharing them here so that all of you who helped collect the points can see the fruits of your labor. And of course to satisfy you other random internet surfers who are dying to see these snow depth numbers. First off, I want to sincerely ...

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The hardest parts of science: the hermeneutic circle

Friday, April 18th, 2008

I was turned on to the idea of the hermeneutic circle by my dad, who was an English major in college. In literary criticism, the idea of the hermeneutic circle is that it's difficult to understand the total meaning of a work without understanding the details within it and, likewise, ...

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