Rabett Run

To be honest, and Eli is always honest, good intentions slip away when one is sleeping through a lockdown, one day like another, and another...

My February 2019 post saying " please not Bernie or Biden " for the Democratic nomination was less than completely successful in d...

So many are dunking so well on Michael Moore's misbegotten Planet Human video on YouTube that it hardly needs my help. Two good places t...

Eli has always been fond of puzzlers , and it is well past time for a new one, the answer to which not only is useful for Twitterati, but a...

Jules of the Klimaatblog is doing a long series on how astroturf spam is manufactured. Particularly important to recognize today with Trump...

Good coronavirus stats are hard to find. As a measure of societal impact, deaths per million people is probably the best, at least somewhat ...

An interesting thing about proxy reconstructions is that it was only with the end of the last century that they could be done, some trivi...

Eli over the years has been  singularly   unhappy   about   Fred   Singer , there is more, but feel free to search Rabett Run for the de...

( Einar Kvaran ) Who knew antifa were practicing good public health? Bandanas are better-than-nothing substitutes for masks. So...

Philip Anderson has died at the age of 96. Worshiped (not too strong a word) by physicist of the condensed matter tribe, Anderson was a...

I've got a dozen-plus tabs of relevant things I think I should blog about, and then I saw this at Slate, " Climbers, Please Control...

When Eli was but a little bunny, New York City owned a radio station, WNYC, which during the day would broadcast school lessons. Some of the...

Renewable energy, especially in distributed microgrids, has a lot of advantages over fossil fuels that need large plants and a vulnerable po...

(UPDATE 3/20/20: Politifact appears to be claiming that Trump was unsuccessful in actually cutting this funding, and it was restored by Cong...

You may have seen the video: Fantastic video! As the link says, they work together to hunt ground squirrels (badger digs, coyote stops e...

For reasons that defy explanation Eli was looking through Coby Beck's A Few Things Illconsidered , Skeptical Science  before SKS as it w...

While pursuing a chimera through his sea of bullshit, Eli came upon a second paper from Syukuro Manabe and Richard Wetherald, not the 1967 o...

Several months back, Nate Silver tweeted that he was looking forward to using data and a model to predict the Democratic primary rather then...

December 2019 GISS data came out recently, and hot: 1.1C over baseline. 2019 is the second hottest year on record after 2016, and if temps ...

Obi-Wan described the Mos Eisley Spaceport as a place to be cautious, that a Bunny could never find a more wretched den of scum and villainy...