» 2006

• 14 Dec 2006: Finals Week = Bitch About Students

  
  Personal, Teaching: apathy · 5 comments

• 28 Nov 2006: Academic Neuropharmapsychowhatsits

  
  Personal: coffee, mind-altering substances · 6 comments

• 26 Nov 2006: Margarita Meringue Pie

  
  Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, Rutaceae, thanksgiving · 1 comment

• 24 Nov 2006: Thanksblogging

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: pie, thanksgiving · 4 comments

• 7 Nov 2006: The Last-Minute Ballot

  
  Politics: California ballot propositions, endorsements · no comments

• 6 Nov 2006: Which Mitochondrial DNA Has the Superpowers?

  
  Science: genetic engineering, mad science, supervillainy · 4 comments

• 3 Nov 2006: What Seismotology Can Do For You

  
  Science, Whimsy: science made stupid · 4 comments

• 30 Oct 2006: Deep Thoughts Occasioned by Student Papers

  
  Teaching, Whimsy: students say the darndest things · 4 comments

• 27 Oct 2006: Psst… Partisan Googlebomb

  
  Politics: anti-endorsements, googlebombs · 2 comments

• 24 Oct 2006: Hawaii, the New York Times, and Triggered Seismicity

  
  Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 comments

• 20 Oct 2006: Selling Out is Officially Hip

  
  Human Fuzzies: consumerism, words · no comments

• 14 Oct 2006: 2006 Election Endorsements: City of Oakland and Alameda County Contests

  
  Politics: Alameda County, endorsements, local elections, Oakland · 4 comments

• 12 Oct 2006: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning

  
  Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments

• 12 Oct 2006: Seismograms from North Korea

  
  Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments

• 3 Oct 2006: Well I Never

  
  Links, Politics, Science: feminism, sexism, women in science · 5 comments

• 29 Sep 2006: Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life

  
  Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments

• 29 Sep 2006: Friday Rock Blogging, Mailbag Edition

  
  Science: mystery rocks, rock blogging · 8 comments

• 21 Sep 2006: Blackboard Art Insanity

  
  Links, Science: da vinci, science is pretty, visualization · 2 comments

• 19 Sep 2006: Arrr! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links: pirate music, pirates, rum · 6 comments

• 11 Sep 2006: TA Training for Berzerkelers

  
  Teaching: blog carnivals, grad school, teacher training · 6 comments

• 5 Sep 2006: The Hottest “Science” Bloggers

  
  Meta, Whimsy: disciplinary hierarchy, scientists · 1 comment

• 4 Sep 2006: Household Goodness

  
  Personal: domesticity, gardening, photoblog · 2 comments

• 4 Sep 2006: Laborious Links: Patenting, Urban Geology, and Gratuitous Toilet Analogies

  
  Links, Science: Bay Area geology, blog carnivals, gender, patents, work vs. family · no comments

• 30 Aug 2006: Block, Writer’s

  
  Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 comments

• 25 Aug 2006: Tidbits

  
  Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, ground water, Mars, Pluto · 15 comments

• 25 Aug 2006: Am I an Old Fart?

  
  Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments

• 20 Aug 2006: Blackberry Pie

  
  Food: blackberries, cooking, desserts, foraging, pie, Rosaceae · 11 comments

• 16 Aug 2006: Oh That Wacky Internet

  
  Links, Science: blog carnivals, Hans Island, Pluto, transphobia · 9 comments

• 15 Aug 2006: Joe Jonah Euclid and the End of the World

  
  Human Fuzzies: Berzerkeley, crackpots · 2 comments

• 12 Aug 2006: How To Grab Google’s Attention

  
  Meta: search requests · 10 comments

• 11 Aug 2006: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance

  
  Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments

• 10 Aug 2006: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace

  
  Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no comments

• 9 Aug 2006: Publication and Citation Rates of Female Earthquake Engineers

  
  Politics, Science: academia, earthquake engineering, gender, Science · 5 comments

• 8 Aug 2006: My Identity is a List of Links

  
  Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments

• 4 Aug 2006: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan

  
  Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 comments

• 3 Aug 2006: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way

  
  Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments

• 2 Aug 2006: Shorter Responses to Ben Barres

  
  Politics: academia, gender, sexism, snark, women in science · 12 comments

• 28 Jul 2006: These Search Requests Are What I’m Trying to Monetize

  
  Meta: adsense, search requests · 3 comments

• 27 Jul 2006: Coming Down from the Link Rush

  
  Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 comment

• 25 Jul 2006: Heat Wave, Schmeat Wave

  
  Personal: ground squirrels, igneous rocks, Lassen, photoblog, rhyolite, talus, volcanoes · 4 comments

• 20 Jul 2006: The Walrus is Angry; Listen to the Walrus

  
  Links, Whimsy: blog carnivals, matlab, volcanic tremor, volcanoes · no comments

• 19 Jul 2006: I Read Wifework So You Don’t Have To

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: book reviews, feminism, gender, marriage, sexism · 7 comments

• 18 Jul 2006: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You

  
  Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 16 comments

• 15 Jul 2006: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM

  
  Politics, Science: women in science · 29 comments

• 10 Jul 2006: Sunday, Day of Links

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 comments

• 8 Jul 2006: Friday Mountain Blogging: Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada

  
  Science: rock blogging, Sierra Nevada, stable isotopes · 6 comments

• 6 Jul 2006: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County

  
  Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments

• 4 Jul 2006: Boringness

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, new theme · 5 comments

• 3 Jul 2006: How Avis and the University of California are Destroying the Environment

  
  Personal, Politics: capitalism sucks, environmentalism, SUVs · 2 comments

• 30 Jun 2006: Friday Rock Blogging, Interplanetary Breakfast Edition

  
  Science: Mars, mountains, Venus · 2 comments

• 29 Jun 2006: Images to Amend the Constitution By

  
  Politics: Dianne Feinstein, flag-burning, freedom of speech · 1 comment

• 27 Jun 2006: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 comments

• 27 Jun 2006: Inconsequentialnesses

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links: craigslist, fart jokes · 5 comments

• 23 Jun 2006: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments

• 17 Jun 2006: Give Me That Old-Fashioned Heterosexual Privilege

  
  Personal: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, wedding-industrial complex · 11 comments

• 7 Jun 2006: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics

  
  Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments

• 6 Jun 2006: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks

  
  Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments

• 2 Jun 2006: Friday Review of Stuff

  
  Human Fuzzies: mac'n'cheez, pop, wordpress themes · 3 comments

• 30 May 2006: If You Can Read This…

  
  Meta: DNS · 2 comments

• 29 May 2006: Going Underwater

  
  Meta: blog status updates · no comments

• 26 May 2006: Friday Cat Blogging: Holy Shit I Have Cats!

  
  Personal: cats, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments

• 22 May 2006: Of Note

  
  Personal: blegging, workload · 2 comments

• 17 May 2006: On the Racial Dynamics of Bus Boarding

  
  Politics: racism, white studies · 7 comments

• 17 May 2006: Miss Manners vs. the Washington Post

  
  Politics: miss manners, sexism, the walking uterus · 1 comment

• 13 May 2006: OMG WTF BBQ

  
  Whimsy: life imitates Internet, theme parties · 6 comments

• 11 May 2006: Wine is for Men*

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: lazy journalism, wine · 2 comments

• 11 May 2006: Yum

  
  Human Fuzzies: Danish, på dansk · 2 comments

• 5 May 2006: Friday iTunes iChing

  
  Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · 2 comments

• 3 May 2006: Fuck This Shit, I’m Moving to Oakland

  
  Politics: Berzerkeley · 1 comment

• 29 Apr 2006: Yay I’m Not Dead Yet

  
  Personal, Whimsy: birthday, memes · 9 comments

• 24 Apr 2006: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too

  
  Politics, Science: academia, mentoring, science studies · no comments

• 22 Apr 2006: A Game

  
  Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: goofy analogies, Pablo Neruda · 2 comments

• 18 Apr 2006: There Goes $14,000

  
  Politics: academia, money, sexism · 14 comments

• 17 Apr 2006: Dear ASUC Candidates

  
  Personal: Berzerkeley · no comments

• 16 Apr 2006: Hello world!

  
  Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments

• 7 Apr 2006: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced

  
  Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments

• 29 Mar 2006: Insert “In Soviet Russia…” Joke Here

  
  Politics, Science: peaceful nuclear explosions, seismology · 23 comments

• 29 Mar 2006: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments

• 25 Mar 2006: Breaking News: Video Games Still Sexist

  
  Personal, Politics: sexism, stereotypes, video games · 2 comments

• 21 Mar 2006: Thomas Kuhn and Big Historiography

  
  Science: Berzerkeley, Big History, Kuhn, Lacan, Marxism, paradigms, philosophy of science · 4 comments

• 17 Mar 2006: Friday iTunes 8Ball

  
  Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments

• 17 Mar 2006: Friday Rock Blogging: The Giant’s Causeway

  
  Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, tourist attractions · 3 comments

• 13 Mar 2006: Quickies

  
  Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments

• 13 Mar 2006: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments

• 10 Mar 2006: Friday Rock Blogging: Clay

  
  Science: carbon cycle, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments

• 7 Mar 2006: Drawings of Scientists

  
  Links, Science: kids drawings, science in pop culture · 5 comments

• 24 Feb 2006: Friday Rock Blogging: I’d Rather Be Camping

  
  Science: moraines, rock blogging, Sierra Nevada · no comments

• 23 Feb 2006: About Aboutas Aboutamus

  
  Human Fuzzies: pirate jokes, words, writing · 4 comments

• 20 Feb 2006: Little History, Big History

  
  Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments

• 15 Feb 2006: Oops

  
  Meta: blog status updates · 2 comments

• 14 Feb 2006: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy

  
  Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments

• 14 Feb 2006: All Smooches Day

  
  Whimsy: new holiday, random acts of smooching, Valentine's Day · 1 comment

• 13 Feb 2006: Ow My Fingertips

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: etymology, mandolin, pedantry, words · 5 comments

• 12 Feb 2006: The Wages of Procrastination

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: Appalachian death polka, domesticity · 3 comments

• 10 Feb 2006: Friday Fluffypost

  
  Whimsy: dreams, pirates, racism, search requests · 1 comment

• 7 Feb 2006: Oh Look, the “Jobs for Men” Section

  
  Personal, Politics: advertising, sexism · no comments

• 4 Feb 2006: Easy glide

  
  Human Fuzzies: queerness, swear words · no comments

• 3 Feb 2006: My New Internet Catch Phrases

  
  Whimsy: catch phrases · 1 comment

• 3 Feb 2006: Friday iTunes iChing: Jurassic Utah Edition

  
  Science: Friday random ten, impact structures, iTunes iChing, liquefaction, salt domes, Upheaval Dome · no comments

• 3 Feb 2006: Friday Seismometer Blogging: Houfeng Didong Yi

  
  Science: rock blogging, seismometers · 3 comments

• 2 Feb 2006: The Real Perils of Plagiarism

  
  Personal: Berzerkeley · 2 comments

• 31 Jan 2006: Procrastinating Things

  
  Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments

• 27 Jan 2006: Friday Rock Blogging: Caliche

  
  Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks, stable isotopes · 7 comments

• 20 Jan 2006: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition

  
  Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 comments

• 20 Jan 2006: Scientists, Not People

  
  Science: literature, science in pop culture · 8 comments

• 19 Jan 2006: Go Grey Lady Go!

  
  Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments

• 19 Jan 2006: Lecture Zero

  
  Personal, Teaching: grad school, time management · no comments

• 13 Jan 2006: Rehydrated AGU

  
  Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments

• 13 Jan 2006: Pretty Volcanokaos!

  
  Links, Science: science is pretty, volcanoes · no comments

• 8 Jan 2006: Rocks are the Mind Killer

  
  Links, Science, Whimsy: science made stupid · no comments

• 4 Jan 2006: The Privileged Huff

  
  Politics: defensiveness, racism, white studies · 4 comments

• 2 Jan 2006: Friday Rock Blogging, Lazy Monday Edition

  
  Links, Science: evaporites, rock blogging · no comments