<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/monist/p/neighboring-with-schmulik-hazins?r=4qtqk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true">https://open.substack.com/pub/monist/p/neighboring-with-schmulik-hazins?r=4qtqk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true</a></div><div><br></div><div>Forgot the link</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 5:24\u202fPM Nicholas Thompson <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"></div><div>Hi, all, </div><div><br></div><div>Meteorology, like psychology, and quantum theory, etc. is a subject matter that collects fringy theorists. Since I am such a person, I cant really fault another human being for being one. Also, one of my favorite myth's is the Emperor's New Clothes, the idea that one can go PhD-less into some expert world and see something that expert practitioners are blind to. Today's post is thus an invitation to Shumlik Hazin's Substack and a summary of my interaction with its author over the last few weeks. I am not sure it's everybody's cup of tea, but those of you interested in the role of metaphor in science might ponder on it. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div><br></div><div>Nick </div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nicholas S. Thompson</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology</div><div>Clark University</div><div><a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu" target="_blank">nthompson@clarku.edu</a></div><div><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson</a></div><div><a href="https://substack.com/@monist" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@monist</a></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nicholas S. Thompson</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology</div><div>Clark University</div><div><a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu" target="_blank">nthompson@clarku.edu</a></div><div><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson</a></div><div><a href="https://substack.com/@monist" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@monist</a></div></div></div>