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Subject: MODELS AND ABSTRACTION
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Here's another interesting article on how abstract models can mislead:

Hayes, Brian (2007), "Calculating the Weather", American Scientist 95(3)
(May-June): 271-273.

http://tinyurl.com/yuhjb6

or

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/Papers.by.Others/hayes07-calcWeather-amersci.html