| Syria: the West makes the usual mistake - Thu, 16 May 2013 12:12:52 +0000 |
| I got wound up by this whilst reading news on my phone while sitting in a boring meeting. So I’ll vent here. The usual scheme of things that we see so often is that bad things happen (the Assad regime in Syria); it goes on and on and people wring their hands, or ignore it,… |
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| Approaching the spampocalypse - Thu, 16 May 2013 07:48:31 +0000 |
| I get an astonishing amount of comment-spam, nominally about dresses – wedding dresses, prom dresses, square dresses and how to fold them, and so on. None of it ever appears so I don’t know why they bother, but simply deleting it all from my email queue is becoming ever more tedious. So I’ve changed one… |
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| University of Qld/Skeptical Science survey of climate research - Thu, 09 May 2013 19:55:52 +0000 |
| Well, I got this (some days ago; I got backlogged): As one of the more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web, I’m seeking your assistance in conducting a crowd-sourced online survey of peer-reviewed climate research. I have compiled a database of around 12,000 papers listed in the ‘Web Of Science’ between 1991 to 2011… |
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