Walking back through Stanford campus yesterday, I decided to detour through the New Guinea sculpture garden and came across this simple memorial. I had no idea it was there.
The inscription on the top just reads "Teach your children well."
Eli Rabett, a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny who finally handed in the keys and retired from his wanna be research university. The students continue to be naive but great people and the administrators continue to vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional without Eli's help. Eli notices from recent political developments that this behavior is not limited to administrators. His colleagues retain their curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves. Prof. Rabett is thankful that they, or at least some of them occasionally heeded his pointing out the implications of the various enthusiasms that rattle around the department and school. Ms. Rabett is thankful that Prof. Rabett occasionally heeds her pointing out that he is nuts.
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A good place to start is Thompson, S., Schneider, S.
"Nuclear Winter Reappraised." Foreign Affairs.
1 Jun. 1986, Volume 62: 981-1005.
Shorter: try to bias your possible errors in the direction that does less damage.
Nice, thanks for sharing.
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