Tag: science

May 29, 2013 0

Planet Rock

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Posted by EliRabett Rabett Run Subscribe Rabett Run Posts Posts Comments Comments Contributors 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.

May 25, 2013 0

Gradually-increasing gas tax that’s buffered against price shocks

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Tweet That’s the answer. The question is what’s better environmentally and economically than the current situation of an inadequate gas tax and a price that swings widely. We need to increase the gas tax, a lot, to cover the economic externalities, decrease overconsumption, accelerate the transition away from internal combustion engines, and pay for infrastructure previously paid for by gas taxes on inefficient engines.

May 25, 2013 0

Unsolicited and sadly unpaid game endorsement: Geoguessr

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Saturday, May 25, 2013 Posted by Brian Rabett Run Subscribe Rabett Run Posts Posts Comments Comments Contributors 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

May 24, 2013 0

Memorial Day Puzzler

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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.

May 22, 2013 0

The Tornados of Tomorrow

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John Mashey said… A definition of small government:when *your* state is in trouble from disaster, Federal help would be wasteful, but when it’s my state, it’s different.May we should do this differently.1) States can either opt in or out of Federal or regional disaster aid, and if opt in, pay for it, i.e., to spread the risk