Rabett Run

In the US coal accounts for about 20% of all railroad freight.  Coal is going away and that is going to hit the bottom line of many railro...

I'm sure there's a fact-laden and long version of this post, but the title almost suffices. Whatever the merit of the argument for...

Interesting piece by Steve Waldman critiquing my two favorite econbloggers, DeLong and Krugthulu, for technocratic approaches in a moralizi...

I spent most of the last two weeks in Guatemala on a kind-of service vacation. My wife has a better claim for service, she's on the bo...

Peter Ward asks 1.  What physically is a photon? The standard answer is a photon is an elementary particle, the quantum of light and all o...

As the summer approaches Eli is polishing up his ethics lecture for the REU program  Since there is nothing new under the sun, the lecture ...

With a cabal of attorneys general gathering information about Exxon and its withholding of information that it had about the risks of clima...

A reporter tried to trap Justin Trudeau (the dreamy PM of Canada according to Ms. Rabett) by asking if he could explain quantum computing an...

Go read John Snow's Grant application and the NIH reviews.   Project Title: An Investigation into the Mode of Communication of Chole...

William Gray, a person who had the most deep down understanding of  hurricanes than any other, passed yesterday . His former student, proteg...

It's, April 15, tax day here in the US, and Eli and Brian have been thinking about how to save the world. Everybunny knows that a carb...

Yes, Eli's new favorite toy pinata, Peter L. Ward ( As Hank points out below not to be confused with Peter D. Ward, an entirely reasonab...

(His alternate career, if it hadn't been for Venus.) My non-scientist thoughts on Hansen's latest : * We're not doing eno...

It may be unfair, but when somebunny volunteers as a pinata, who is Eli not to go to Bad Bunny. Peter L. Ward has been spreading nonsense li...

Two interesting and warring perspectives on Libya and foreign intervention - I agree with main points of both. The first by Shadi Hamid at...

Kind of along the lines of Eli’s Lighter-Than-Air musings , I wondered the other day about why ships operating as tugs couldn’t be electric....

Well, the 97% wars have never stopped, but Joe Romm gives it a try The overwhelming majority of climate scientists — over 97 percent — u...

I've been sitting on this for a long time, but California received its first offshore windfarm application last fall that sounds pretty...

The lawprofs said it was an offensive contact with another person , as a reasonable person defines offensive. The "reasonable person...

Eli and Jim Hunt (Great White Con) as mentioned here and there are engaged in a fun thing with the hard heads over at Bishop Hill .  OT...