Anybody know if these rolling digital measures are bullshit? Because it seems pretty cool and if they're not then being able to measure curved surfaces accurately more easily would be really nice, like, absolutely nice enough to pay for one.
#measurement
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Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-optical-frequency-absolute-distance-precision.html
Phys.org · Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
With #Dundee offering this year a "short half marathon" (1mi missing, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4rpv635e7o ), I was not surprised that the last 2 miles of the #KiltwalkDundee being measured at 1.57km and 0.34km (below showing estimates for the last and last 2 miles).
One of the dangers of requiring measurable outcomes is that it restricts us to concentrate on what can be measured, not what's important
Later in the day, I've gotten around to sharing a #TipOfDay and it has been a while. I used to do this years ago and it was time to do it again. Got tired of continuing to search online for measurement conversation and lately it has been almost once a day. Remembered to go to an "online source" and do screenshots of the products available. Now they are pretty hand to grab from my phone, especially since the quality on the phone is great so I can zoom to view larger. To show what they look like I just copied a set of 11 of them to share as a demo. Voilá
#Chart #Measurement #Conversion
Minnesota faces longest air quality alert in state history
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/02/minnesota-faces-longest-air-quality-alert-in-state-history
MPR News · Minnesota faces longest air quality alert in state history
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Gosh, that takes me back. I used to have one of those when I was at school. I wonder what happened to it.
#rule #measurement
In a week's time #SPRKrakow2025 will be over already.
I am grateful to my colleagues for joining me for the panel
"Measuring what matters: How do we know that we do?"
#PsychotherapyResearch #Measurement #HRQOL #CoreOutcomes #DundeeUni
@paperbag1
Discussant: Michael Barkham, University of Sheffield, UK
Talks:
Constructing a measurement ontology of depression and depression related constructs
Presenter: Gary Brown, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Measurement is Science - I was watching Ben Krasnow making iron nitride permanent magnets and was struck by... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/21/measurement-is-science/ #hackadaycolumns #quantification #measurement #science #magnets #rants
Hackaday · Measurement Is ScienceI was watching Ben Krasnow making iron nitride permanent magnets and was struck by the fact that about half of the video was about making a magnetometer – a device for measuring and characterizing …
As a musician this hits way too hard
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous
I always wondered if it was just me struggling with this. I take solace in knowing I am not the only one
lcamtuf’s thing · Decibels are ridiculous
From the pantheon of unusual measures of volume, I give you the "half tea chest"
#measurement
https://www.europesays.com/2073523/ How to make data work harder in 2025 #AI #Data #Digital #measurement #News #newsline #UK #UkAndUs #US
Getting ready for @beccajackson.bsky.social 's talk at our School. Activating all the brain cells 
#Cofaidh #Coffee #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Psychometrics #Measurement
I look forward to hosting Rebecca Jackson at the School of #HealthSciences next week. In addition to exploring potential for collaboration, she will give a talk 
Find out more about her excellent work:
https://measuring-well.com/
I want to plug two papers in particular:
"Cervical measurements were taken primarily to influence the female body and control labor outcomes"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263224123012162?via%3Dihub
and
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039368122000954
#Psychometrics #Measurement #Clinimetrics #Midwifery
#Gynecology #DundeeUni
https://www.europesays.com/2041524/ ‘Overemphasising data’ leading to climate ‘weariness’, warns Cambridge climate head #biodiversity #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ImpactInvesting #InvestorAllocations #Measurement&Reporting #NaturalCapital
Hot wheels: Researcher cycles through Mississauga to map air temperature differences across the city
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-hot-wheels-mississauga-air-temperature.html
Phys.org · Hot wheels: Researcher cycles through Mississauga to map air temperature differences across the city
TIL all about varas. #vara #measurement #californiahistory
SFBA.socialMorgan Fletcher :vbike: (@morgan@sfba.social)Attached: 1 image
@davetroy@toad.social A vara is also a unit of measurement. I know that, because I'm a #CaliforniaHistory nerd.
https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/vara-standard-length-not-so-standard-history
When the gringo lawyers and squatters took the land from the Californios after 1848, all the legal maneuvering dealt with original Spanish land grant documents, so everything was in varas.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-the-gem-of-th/161749896/
WATCH | Why did Canada switch to metric?
Here's what Canadians thought of switching to metric decades ago as we look back on why it happened in the first place.
#measurement #history #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6694195?cmp=rss
measurement tools smashed,
I can stop fearing climate.
weather's threat enough.
