Tag: georgia

August 20, 2012 0

Catbird Seats

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Posted by EliRabett at 5:36 PM   3 comments: Anonymous said… It’s interesting how Australian ecology differs from the ecologies of other continents, in terms of the nature of its trophic webs. The geological isolation of Australia, together with its ancient, nutrient-poor soils, mean that there is a great skew toward the lower trophic levels: that is, there ain’t much room for a large biomass of top predators on the continent

August 19, 2012 0

Cognitive Dissonance and Good Advice

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Anonymous said… You think that Tony has it in for you? Well, I’d like to let you know that I have also been a victim of Tony’s not-so-righteous wrath.Not long ago, I committed the ultimate crime (in Tony’s eyes).

August 18, 2012 0

The Girl from Nanaimo

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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

August 14, 2012 0

The Guillotine Drops

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The Guillotine Drops A few weeks ago, before Joe Paterno’s statue was removed, Eli wrote in a post entitled Death Penalty Eli, as some have noted, is an ancient professor, an academic if you will.  He has followed the collapse of governance at Penn State with the interest of a bunny watching a disaster unveiled, and recently saw much back and forth about the NCAA (the folks who profit from and do the pompous on intercollegiate athletics in the US) imposing the death penalty on football at PSU.