Behind him, a screen displays a series
of wiggly lines and what looks like a graphic equaliser.
One cold, snowy day, Ingrid Daubechies saw a wealth of hidden meaning in a confused jumble
of wiggly lines.
Steve: And then they are getting rid of it again, and you get this little kind
of wiggly line, but the overall trend is up.
Not exact matches
But this
wiggly line that you referred to, that does turn out to be a couple
of percent
of the entire atmospheric CO2 on an annual basis and one
of the messages from that is that the vegetation and the bacteria that are releasing the CO2 from the soil, the vegetation is taking it up from the atmosphere to the sugars.
While the higher - CO2 snails were more active in general, they moved in «
wiggly lines, and some even went in a circle,» says study coauthor and marine biologist Sue - Ann Watson
of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia.
And further along you'll find the Tsonga factory shop on your left, as well as Piggly
Wiggly (a kind
of strip mall out in the open — not really my style as I prefer the little shops along the road, but hey the kids will probably love the zip
line).
A fountain made
of blobby cast metal by Lynda Benglis has a nice grotesquely organic presence; and a field
of wiggly green
lines on a hot pink ground by Sue Williams is sexy and optically captivating.
His work from the early Fifties is typical
of the time: brushy areas
of color offset by spidery
lines demarcating planes and establishing their own
wiggly independence.
In our paper published last night in ERL we show the newer Church & White data set with less smoothing in Fig. 3 (orange
line), and you can see it is more «
wiggly» — hard to tell whether these wiggles are true oscillations in global sea level or again an effect
of the limited number
of gauges.
The contrast is all the more marked when we switch to the solid
line of systematic global thermometer measurements, and for the first time we start to see a little bit
of that
wiggly data (still smoothed out considerably by the artist, I should add).
What do you think
of drawing a straight
line fit through
wiggly noisy data and calling it a trend?
But few talks went without a slide showing the
wiggly line of a deep ice core.