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May 31, 2009
Category: bees
The good beekeper keeps a close eye on his or her bees, carefully checks the weight of the hive during the winter to make sure they aren't starving, and pays particular attention during May for 'tis the season to be...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2009
Category: climate communication
Over the last decade or so, hard rock geologists have done rather poorly in science, because they have become unfashionable, and are overshadowed by the popularity of climate change. Some of them become bitter and twisted and prominent septics....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:03 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2009
Category: climate science
I apologise for the brief intrusion of something vaguely related to climate science on this rowing-n-wiki blog; we'll return you to your usual programming shortly. Maurizio Morabito attempts to establish that there was a consensus for global cooling in the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:34 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 18, 2009
Category: wikipedia
There is an interesting (if you like that sort of thing) insight into some wiki-politics available from a recent RFA (which stands for [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship]]. Not to be confused, obviously, with RFA which stands for [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests]]). Admins are the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:55 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: rowing
At least not Kings I. But we did have a really quite decent outing tonight (rather more fun than the ladies on sunday; we rowed in the Champs head on sunday, which was an experience but not really fun. James...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 17, 2009
Category: economics
One thing that has puzzled me for a bit about the current mess is the intereaction between the Government and the Central Bank (Bank of England or BoE, in our case). So the government is raising money by selling Gilts,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 7, 2009
Category: economics
At least we are as I write this. What we are when you read this I don't know. Disclaimer: this post contains no inside information at all....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 4, 2009
Category: climate economics
asks Unscientific American (and CP). The short answer is no. As you can find from the FAO, calories per day are going up, not down. [W]orld grain prices in the spring and summer of last year climbed to the highest...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:28 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 3, 2009
Category: climate science
Did you notice that RC called it "Meinshausen et al"? Barbarians :-). Anyway, they liked the paper whilst I'm less sure. As far as I can tell its not really a question of science in dispute, just what you make...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:55 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 2, 2009
Category: rowing
Chesterton RC ran the Head of the Cam race today (we really must improve our website some time). I got to help marshalling a couple of divisions, on First Post Corner and Grassy Corner, which was a good post as...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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