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The Weather Machine
A Journey Inside the Forecast
Author: Andrew Blum
Narrator: Greg Tremblay
Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/25/2019
Author: Andrew Blum
Narrator: Greg Tremblay
Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/25/2019
Andrew Blum is a journalist and the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, the first book-length look at the physical infrastructure of the Internet. Tubes has been translated into ten languages, and has become a crucial reference for journalists, politicians, and entrepreneurs eager to understand how the Internet works. Blum’s writing about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel has appeared in numerous publications, including Wired, Popular Science, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times.
as someone who works in meteorological data collection this was a fun read. My biggest complaint is go deeper! I'm here dude go fuckin all in. It reads like a long form internet article of "isn't this stuff cool!" which like it is, and the brevity of it made it really crushable and interesting. But......more
One of our oldest desires is knowing the weather. And we gradually raised our expectations on fulfilment of this desire. Niels Bohr has famously said: "Predictions are very difficult, especially if they are about the future". Especially for the weather, they were extremely difficult just a century a......more
The Weather Machine : A Journey Inside the Forecast (2019) by Andrew Blum explores how modern weather forecasts are made. Blum is a journalist who has written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and Wired and various other magazines. The Weather Machine picks a subject that is more incredibl......more