Carl Schmertmann

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Demographer Emeritus Professor of Economics Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, USA 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇹🇼 🇵🇸 Anti-ICE account 8647

Photo of 1-won North Korean coin with Kim Il Sung's in a military uniform
cartoon image of Hank Hill, standing and holding a beer
NPR screenshot stating plainly that Trump provided no evidence of illegal voting in his prime time speech
Spreadsheet cells showing how MS Excel *always* misinterprets the ages in the first row of a truncated (age-grouped) life table as dates. First ages are "0" "01-Apr", "05-Sep", "Oct-14". Then it gets the age groups right from that point on.
movie poster for "Hunt for the Wilderpeople"
Photo of mountains in Brazil's Atlantic forest, Paraná state.
Photo of a BYD car display at Salvador airport, Brazil.
Photo of notoriously bad bust of CR7
Image of glossy maple leaf flag button
Extremely low quality drawing of Godzilla attacking Tokyo. Drawn by Grandpa so that the almost 3-yr-old would sit at the table for lunch.
Photo of a Trix cereal box, featuring the rabbit mascot.
Cartoon poster for 1970s Saturday morning cartoon, "The Herculoids". I loved this show, especially the armored dinosaur with the laser cannon horn.
4-panel plot. Each panel has data from the Human Fertility Database, showing the avg # of children that 1984-born women had at age 40 in various countries. Portugal has low cohort fertility (approx 1.5 children per 40-year old women) but has the highest prevalance of women with 1 child at age 40.
Billboard for "The Man in the High Castle" showing the Statue of Liberty giving a Nazi salute.
Poster for the 1969 movie "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"
photo of Norwegian flag
Screen capture from navyonline.com with text stating that Carter attended Georgia Tech before graduating from the Naval academy
map of Canadian provinces, all shaded with a single color indicating that 0% of those under 65 are without health insurance
screen capture showing a message "Unsubscribe Successful. You have been removed from Academic Departments Master List". :)
Image of Artemis 2 crew inside the capsule.
Image of a half-crescent Earth covered in clouds. Taken by Artemis II astronauts on their way to the Moon.
Image of Dory, the very forgetful fish from Finding Nemo
screenshot image with text: Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places. He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses he simply lies about whatever he said or did before.
Scene from Star Trek IV (?). 20th C scientist looks at computer screen, Scotty and Bones behind him, and gasps "Transparent Aluminum?"
Image of Ogle's post saying "Muslims don't belong in American society".
Image from the "Liar's Paradox" episode of original Star Trek.
plot showing state taxes per pack of cigarettes on the horizontal axis, and age-adjusted lung cancer rates on the vertical. There is a (loose) association between higher state taxes and lower state cancer rates. The lowest lung cancer rates are in Utah, highest in Kentucky. Lowest state taxes in Missouri, highest in New York.
Photo of a scene from "Breaking Bad"
data plot showing the fraction of 20-year-olds who are expected to die before ages up to 65. At 2022 rates, the expected fraction of 20-yr-olds who will die before 65 is * 7% in Sweden * 8% in Spain * 10% in France * 17% in the US There are truly shocking levels in some states. More than one-fourth of 20-year-olds in West Virginia and Mississippi will not live to retirement age.
photo of Kim Jong Un applauding
photo: protestors at the Florida Capitol building
Cartoon image of a Bingo card with the word BINGO at the top