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September 30, 2012 0

Too Many Vowels

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

September 30, 2012 0

Celery Stalks at Midnight

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional

September 29, 2012 0

Strained Silver and strange predictions on climate

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It’s not the usual lopsided intellectual battle we discuss here at Eli’s.  This is Michael Mann criticizing Nate Silver’s somewhat skeptical take of climate prediction capability in Silver’s new book: It’s not that Nate revealed himself to be a climate change denier; he accepts that human-caused climate change is real, and that it represents a challenge and potential threat.