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Explication :  It has been pointed out to Eli that the Kzinti lesson is a bit obscure and maybe even not the right description of Richard...

Brian, being obsessed with water supply, he is from California, in writing about water reuse , missed this little goodie which Eli found at...

Noah Smith is having fun with automatic priors , pointing out that the reasonable person's prior on personal immortality is that you got...

The British House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has issued its report on the AR5 WG I.  While the report strongly supports...

As Eli points out , California has a water crisis, and much of the rest of the country needs to be much more water efficient. Water efficien...

Twitter conversations by scientists , beginning with one of Pythagoras' tweets. Be sure to read the ones from Jonas Salk.

(Not very substantive post on meeting Michelle Obama, click here  to read if you're idly curious....)

Over at ATTP, Rachel, playing while Wotts is away, asks about community driven solutions to climate change .  Pekka misses the point in one ...

World Council of Churches, Unitarian Universalists, United Church of Christ, and many smaller/regional church denominations and affiliated o...

Eli has long been an advocate of the five fold way Adaptation to deal with the damage already done Amelioration , eliminating harmful...

Japanese citizens reading their newspapers during World War II noticed that the reports of unending series of Japanese victories in the Pac...

Eli is on vacation, a little surfing now and again.  Back eventually, till then there is this to ponder Statistical mathterbation ha...

John Quiggin has two good climate-related posts out from recent days. Tobacco International discusses the recent decision in Australia to m...

Of course, Eli is sitting on the couch, switching back and forth between the World Cup and Monckton vs. Svalgaard at Willard Tony's p...

I've finally slogged my way through last week's Supreme Court decision on EPA regulation of some sources of greenhouse gases. For ...

Splendid food fights have broken out at the Weasel's , Willard Tony's and Jo Nova's about Junior Rocket Scientist David Evans...

So what's new?  Well the Weasel is going after a sci-fi comic drawing in the H.H. Lamb series, this one first appears to have appeared ...

After reading some of The Nuremberg Interviews , I found this on wiki : In 1934, Hitler named Ribbentrop Special Commissioner for Disarmam...

Sayeth GISS . In the interest of fairness, I'll be sure to post whenever we have a coldest month ever in the GISS records.

A few days ago Ethon's food group put up a very depressing chart purporting to show the proportion of global energy consumption that c...