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Roger Turner
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Museum curator, nature watcher, often intrigued. Likes three item lists.
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For a quick overview of the ARL, I did a poster at AGU in December 2024. I was surprised to learn that HYSPLIT can be used to predict the spread of locusts. Truly, NOAA protects people from biblical curses. Here's an image version.
Image of a scientific poster titled "science for governing: NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory." It includes a map of nuclear fallout, a photograph of meteorologist Lester Machta, and charts showing the growth and applications of the HYSPLIT computer model.
March 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Apropos of nothing in particular today.
Pen and ink cartoon of an elephant rushing into a shed labeled "Magazine no. 1. Explosives. KEEP OUT." A clown looking on leaps into the air and loses his hat.
January 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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My favorite swag from #AGU2024.
A black bumper sticker, showing cherry pie with the caption “I like my crust deformed” produced by the Earth scope consortium
December 10, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Tire irony.
Bump sticker on back of car saying “just say NO to negativity.”
November 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Tire irony
November 27, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Met another registered republican woman who is just sooo excited to vote for Harris. Lots of enthusiasm amongst dems to do this today.

Also saw this brick that has the opposite enthusiasm.
Basic red brick printed with “this brick will sit here all day and recruit and motivate no one.”
November 5, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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There’s no evidence of a Republican ground game here. The County GOP office was closed Saturday morning, as dozens of dem canvassers came to pick up their turfs. Haven’t seen a single GOP canvasser, or door hanger. We’ve got people coming up from DC, Maryland, VA to knock doors.
November 5, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Yes, the polls are close, but it feels really good for Democrats out here in central PA. Here’s what I’ve learned from talking with about 200 voters and knocking on 330 doors in a Pennsylvania swing district over the last few weeks. 1/
November 5, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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Holiday baking got you puzzled? Maybe you need this:
digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1g05fc...
Blue and white cover of a booklet titled "Taking the Mystery out of Margarine" illustrated with a cartoon magician about to pull a tablecloth off of a bar of margarine.
December 19, 2023 at 4:53 PM
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One weird thing: Listerine playing on every parent's anxiety when they tell their kids to go to bed. "Are you unpopular with your own children?"(1928)

digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6395w7...
October 28, 2023 at 1:42 AM
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One weird thing: A 1960's RV equipped as a mobile smog monitoring station. "Ask about our lease plan."

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Black and White magazine advertisement titled "Join the Battle against air pollution!" Shows a smoggy city behind barbed wire at top, and seven air pollution monitoring instruments in the lower part of the image.
October 26, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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One weird thing: Cartoon showing Abraham Lincoln as a chemist, brewing up a "pure refined national elixir of liberty."
digital.sciencehistory.org/works/np193b...
Envelope with red white and blue cartoon showing Abraham Lincoln in front of a heated cauldron and a retort.
October 25, 2023 at 3:49 PM
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One weird thing: An illustration Beatrix Potter made for her uncle, chemist Henry Roscoe. It was inspired by a line from a textbook he wrote about heating cheese in a test tube so students could learn to identify the pungent odor of anhydrous ammonia. digital.sciencehistory.org/works/f4752h...
Drawing of a mouse reading a book, while its are is curled around the base of a Bunsen burner. In the background, other mice toast bits of cheese over the flame. Arching above the drawing is the title "A dream of toasted cheese."
October 24, 2023 at 2:08 PM
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Today's one weird thing: a fight between spectrophotometer salesmen in 1954.
digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ns0646...
Black and white photo of businessmen holding chairs like lion tamers, brandishing sales brochures for their company's spectrophotometers. "Beckman Instruments" sign in background.
October 24, 2023 at 2:32 AM