Rabett Run

Eli sat in on an interesting conversation last week at the Brookings Institution involving Chris Crane the Exelon CEO.  Exelon is a large e...

I saw a reference to Seneca while reading Let It Shine , a history of solar energy (more on the book later). The reference was intriguing, a...

Lately Eli has been playing Clarissa, explaining all the thermochaff thrown up against the wall by his friends the confused.  First it was ...

Longtime readers may remember that I (Brian speaking here), realizing what great reputations politicians had, decided to become one mys...

Much craziness over Kavanaugh. Separate from the recent controversy is his opinion on upholding settled precedent, wherein he pretends that ...

Hi Gang, Eli is out on the flatlands and yes he has been neglecting his duties, but there are a couple of interesting things this year in...

The headline is the answer to where we spent our summer vacation: two weeks in Mongolia, finishing with a week in South Korea....

James Delingpole is out there shaking the cup for himself, setting up a gofundme to pay for treatment for chronic lyme disease and a bad ov...

Among physicists and chemists, well at least the theoretical side of the latter it is well known that electrons have no hair by which is me...

Sometime ago Eli created a simple example of how the presence of a colder body can limit the rate at which a warmer one emits energy.  If ...

What makes global temperature anomalies plots and maps go is the correlation of temperatures over a large area.  This also is key to homoge...

Yes, Rabett Run has a full time administrator, but he sleeps a lot being very old.  Thus Eli has removed the comment notification gadget bec...

Reto Knutti wrote his experiences of Fake News and how to deal with it for the Schweiz am Wochenende.  It also appeared on the ETH Zurich w...

Well, after what has been a boring melt season, maybe even Neven thinks so, the Northern Hemisphere heat wave appears to have created some ...

I share the same appalled reaction as the rest of the planet to Trump's dimunitive behavior when standing next to Putin. That isn...

At least for the physical sciences public access policies are fairly recent and not at all clear.  This became obvious to Eli in a recent T...

Science is maybe only three times as old as Eli (Eli is very old, has he mentioned that recently) maybe 5 if you count back to Newton.  Abo...

A distinguishing mark of a new record in a time series is that it exceeds all previous values another is that the first value in a time ser...

Having engaged himself in a worthy round of hole digging while trying to explain why he never used what he himself acknowledged as the exce...

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 1988 publication of Global climate changes as forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies three...