Tag: history

Memorial Day Puzzler
May 24, 2013 0

Memorial Day Puzzler

By News Desk

So Eli and Ms. Eli are bundling up for the end of May holiday here in the US and Ethon thought he would take a whack or a peck as the case may be.  This one starts with the set to between Richard Tol (boo, hiss) and Dana Nuccetelli (yea) covered at places which are dangerous but it really is about reading carefully.  You can see their tweets at Twitter , but Eli’s friend @Ethon Raptor wants to point to two of them Richard Tol ‏ @ RichardTol Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly.

Cook, et al. The prequel, the teeth gnashing, the recursive fury
May 15, 2013 0

Cook, et al. The prequel, the teeth gnashing, the recursive fury

By News Desk

and the dreaded Disputed Suffice it to say, they were strongly in line with what Cook, et al, have come up with, but not nearly so well done.  Also those early bunnies were querulous, something that Eli has never, never been accused of. Now some, not Eli to be sure, have been trying to trash Cook, et al., which has just been published as open access, even before it appeared.  The recursive fury has been something to see

King’s Day
April 30, 2013 0

King’s Day

By News Desk

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. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.