Saturday, November 27, 2021

From USENET to Twitter the adventures of Eli Rabett

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  At best social media are teaching opportunities but they can challenge professional geoscientists and today other scientists because of po...
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Monday, September 06, 2021

Unclear on Afghanistan

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From an email I had sent: I've got a lot of conflicting thoughts about Afghanistan. If anyone doesn't have conflicting thoughts abou...
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Friday, September 03, 2021

China's problem is the rate of change (maybe), not the direction of change

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 There's been a lot of hand-wringing over China's population crunch, shown by its recent decision to allow 3-child families. It'...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Thoughts on Improving Air Cleaners for Covid

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 With the return of school and offices moms and dads especially are paying increased attention to air cleaners. You can buy small units for ...
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Sunday, August 08, 2021

Hard problems, fear and solutions: Pick two

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 Just the other day Eli was innocently pushing the search engine, coming across this article in the Washington Post from 2017. BTW, there a...
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Saturday, May 22, 2021

UFOs and the opposite of crank magnetism

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(Brian here btw, in case anyone's annoyed with this post.) Crank magnetism refers to how people who credulously believe one wild claim,...
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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Vox doesn't understand population growth and climate

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Parachuting back to highlight a really bad article in Vox saying it's okay to have kids (no discussion of how many is okay, so I guess ...
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