Rabett Run

Eli meant to behave but there were way too many options.

Monday, February 28, 2022

Coming Home to Roost

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Perhaps out of place but one of the things that Eli has noted with some amazement is how quickly banks and industrial firms are signing on t...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

"We Buy Hucks"

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The headline is one of the two signs we saw commonly during our summer vacation in Idaho and Montana (glaciers are still there in the nation...
Friday, January 07, 2022

So, Look Up or Don't Look Up, now

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Dr.  ValĂ©rie Masson-Delmotte had a Tweet Storm review of Don't Look Up that deserves putting where it can be gotten at without fumpling,...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

History of the Internet - Lessons in Shaking the Cup for Science

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 Never mind where the breadcrumbs were scattered, but Eli wandered into a video interview of Peter Kirstein describing how ARPAnet came to E...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Parchuting in again

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Have had things to blog about, and then didn't blog them. Oh well - I at least want to add a mention of this renewable energy podcast, T...
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...
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...
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'...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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 ...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Afghanistan v. Hong Kong: we can do something about Afghanistan

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I have two unusual places that I've donated to and would like to give more - one is MIRI, a charity working on ethical, smarter-than-hum...
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