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May 16, 2013 0

Why not?

By News Desk

david lewis said… Hadfield is walking the line, speaking as a diplomat. If you think his quote is distorted, here is the full article

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.

April 23, 2013 0

On Mathematics and Science

By News Desk

In the preceding post Eli pointed en passant to an article by EO Wilson where he let the cat out of the bag For many young people who aspire to be scientists, the great bugbear is mathematics. Without advanced math, how can you do serious work in the sciences? Well, I have a professional secret to share: Many of the most successful scientists in the world today are mathematically no more than semi-literate