Science

• 23 Jan 2008: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie

  
  Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments

• 21 Jan 2008: REMINDER: Accretionary Wedge entries due tomorrow!

  
  Science: blog carnivals, geoblogosphere · 12 comments

• : Metagabbros

  
  Science: metamorphic rocks · 6 comments

• 20 Jan 2008: How to Make Good Cloud-Watching Weather

  
  Science: climate change, clouds, irrigation · 2 comments

• 17 Jan 2008: Reading Material for the Week

  
  Science: academic journals, International Year of Planet Earth, trends in science · 3 comments

• : RSS Feeds for AGU Journals

  
  Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments

• 10 Jan 2008: Saline Injections for Venice?

  
  Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments

• 7 Jan 2008: Accretionary Wedge Call for Posts

  
  Science: blog carnivals, national pie day · 6 comments

• 25 Dec 2007: Where on (Google) Earth? #82

  
  Science: drainage networks, google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 4 comments

• 17 Dec 2007: Aaand, the rest of AGU

  
  Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments

• 10 Dec 2007: Monday AGU Accomplishment Checklist

  
  Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging, geoblogosphere · 4 comments

• : AGU Geobloggers’ Meetup

  
  Science: geoblogosphere, meetups · 2 comments

• 30 Nov 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: A Randomly-Generated AGU Press Kit

  
  Science, Whimsy: american geophysical union, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, science journalism · 20 comments

• 28 Nov 2007: Shaking in Marie Curie’s Boots

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, books, scientiae, women in science · no comments

• : It’s “That Time” of the Science

  
  Science: goals, the scientific lifestyle, writing · 6 comments

• 14 Nov 2007: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains

  
  Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 comments

• 2 Nov 2007: Friday Fun Poll: Feyerabend

  
  Science, Whimsy: philosophy of science, unprofessional boundaries · 2 comments

• 1 Nov 2007: We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We’re the November Scientiae!

  
  Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments

• 26 Oct 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, meteorites, panspermia · 2 comments

• 23 Oct 2007: Free and Open-Source Learnin’s

  
  Links, Science: freebies, open source, podcasts, textbooks · 2 comments

• 22 Oct 2007: Carnivalling

  
  Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, civil liberties, scientiae · 1 comment

• 20 Oct 2007: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain

  
  Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 50 comments

• 19 Oct 2007: Friday Rock Blogging: Zoned Feldspar

  
  Science: crystals, igneous rocks, rock blogging · 1 comment

• 15 Oct 2007: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak

  
  Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 comments

• 5 Oct 2007: Friday Rock Blogging: Berea Sandstone

  
  Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 1 comment

• 3 Oct 2007: November Scientiae Call for Posts

  
  Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments

• 25 Sep 2007: Geek Ink

  
  Science, Whimsy: diffusion, equations, tattoos · 5 comments

• 23 Sep 2007: I Need Idiotproofing

  
  Personal, Science: grad school, software · 3 comments

• 2 Sep 2007: Why I’m a Geophysicist

  
  Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments

• 30 Aug 2007: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, feminisms, history, psychology, racism, rape, sexism, trashy novels, white studies · 3 comments

• 26 Jul 2007: Galveston Bids for Darwin Award

  
  Politics, Science: idiocy, natural hazards, urban planning · 3 comments

• 20 Jul 2007: Where on (Google) Earth? #35

  
  Science, Whimsy: glaciers, google earth, volcanoes, Where on (Google) Earth? · 8 comments

• 13 Jul 2007: Friday Fun Poll: Planetary Warming

  
  Politics, Science, Whimsy: climate change, planetary science · 1 comment

• 11 Jul 2007: Where on (Google) Earth? #26 - Now with 90% Fewer Coordinates!

  
  Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 10 comments

• 6 Jul 2007: Friday Links and iTunes iChing

  
  Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments

• 1 Jul 2007: Leaving the Ivory Tower

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: academia, book reviews, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa · 3 comments

• 28 Jun 2007: Science World Heritage

  
  Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment

• 22 Jun 2007: Where on (Google) Earth #20

  
  Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 5 comments

• 13 Jun 2007: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments

• 20 Apr 2007: Friday Fun Poll: Logarithms

  
  Science: quizzes · 15 comments

• 11 Apr 2007: Looking for New Earth

  
  Science: extrasolar planets, telescopes · 6 comments

• 10 Apr 2007: Another Earthquake Prediction Failure

  
  Science: earthquake prediction · 4 comments

• 3 Apr 2007: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?

  
  Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments

• 27 Mar 2007: Look What the Discovery Channel Thinks of Female Engineers

  
  Politics, Science: feminism, media, sexism, women in engineering · 22 comments

• 18 Mar 2007: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes

  
  Science: earthquakes · 10 comments

• 13 Mar 2007: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof

  
  Politics, Science: science in pop culture, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · 9 comments

• 3 Mar 2007: Belated Carnival Post

  
  Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments

• : Earthquake Folksonomy

  
  Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments

• 23 Feb 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: Will Lusi Be Stopped?

  
  Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Lusi, search requests · 1 comment

• 21 Feb 2007: Blocking Mt. Etna

  
  Science: volcanoes, X-treem hazard mitigation · 2 comments

• 18 Feb 2007: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos

  
  Science: cnidarians, embryos, paleontology, Precambrian · 2 comments

• 30 Jan 2007: What’s the Good News of Geology?

  
  Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments

• 26 Jan 2007: Bottomless Holes of Curiosity

  
  Personal, Science: time sinks, Web of Science, xkcd · 8 comments

• 22 Jan 2007: Sediment Transport by Splashing

  
  Science: erosion, gardening, geomorphology, rain, science is pretty · 4 comments

• 15 Jan 2007: Martin Luther King, Jr., Geologist

  
  Politics, Science: Martin Luther King Jr., rhetorical tactics · 6 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

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

  
  Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 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

• : 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

• 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

• 25 Aug 2006: Tidbits

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

• 16 Aug 2006: Oh That Wacky Internet

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

• 11 Aug 2006: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance

  
  Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 9 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

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

  
  Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 15 comments

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

  
  Politics, Science: women in science · 28 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

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

  
  Science: Mars, mountains, Venus · 2 comments

• 24 Apr 2006: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too

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

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

  
  Politics, Science: peaceful nuclear explosions, seismology · 12 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 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

• 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

• 20 Feb 2006: Little History, Big History

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

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

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

• : Friday Seismometer Blogging: Houfeng Didong Yi

  
  Science: rock blogging, seismometers · 3 comments

• 27 Jan 2006: Friday Rock Blogging: Caliche

  
  Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks, stable isotopes · 4 comments

• 20 Jan 2006: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition

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

• : 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

• 13 Jan 2006: Rehydrated AGU

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

• : 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

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

  
  Links, Science: evaporites, rock blogging · no comments

• 6 Dec 2005: AGU One

  
  Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 comments

• 2 Dec 2005: For Shame, Beeboid!

  
  Science: Berzerkeley · 4 comments

• 23 Nov 2005: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments

• 4 Nov 2005: Return of Friday Rock Blogging: Titan

  
  Science: methane, rock blogging, Titan · 2 comments

• 26 Oct 2005: How Homosexuality Hurts You

  
  Politics, Science: queerness, smart-assery, yeast · 3 comments

• 14 Oct 2005: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel

  
  Science: crackpots · 3 comments

• 11 Oct 2005: I’m Crushed

  
  Links, Science: dinosaurs, feathers, paleontology · 3 comments

• 20 Sep 2005: Climate Change in Human Teeth

  
  Science: climate change, stable isotopes, teeth · no comments

• 16 Sep 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement

  
  Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments

• 2 Sep 2005: Suggested New Vocabulary for Disaster Newscasters

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: lazy journalism, words · no comments

• : Friday iTunes iChing

  
  Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests, Sierra Nevada · no comments

• 27 Aug 2005: What I Learned in the Field This Month

  
  Science: field work, photoblog, Yosemite · no comments

• 15 Jul 2005: Friday rock blogging: sugary edition

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: crystals, guest posts, rock blogging · 4 comments

• 9 Jul 2005: Medical things I do not know answers to

  
  Science: guest posts, medicine · 9 comments

• 29 Jun 2005: Stop to smell the roses…

  
  Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no comments

• 25 Jun 2005: Friday Rock Blogging, Atemporal Edition: Road Cuts on the 5

  
  Science: driving, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 5 comments

• 16 Jun 2005: Garbage Day

  
  Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, classism, Dianne Feinstein, earthquakes, feminism, flag-burning, rape, welfare · 4 comments

• 10 Jun 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Gnammas

  
  Science: Australia, rock blogging, Yosemite · 3 comments

• 1 Jun 2005: Academic Insecurity Builds Character

  
  Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 5 comments

• 27 May 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition

  
  Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 comment

• 20 May 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro

  
  Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 6 comments

• 13 May 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Evaporites

  
  Science: evaporites, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 3 comments

• 9 May 2005: Work a Mile in My Shoes

  
  Science: job openings · 2 comments

• 6 May 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Sedimentary Concretions

  
  Science: Mars, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments

• 29 Apr 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Birthday Edition

  
  Science: basalt, Hawaii, igneous rocks, lava, rock blogging · 6 comments

• 21 Apr 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Aplite Dike

  
  Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 3 comments

• 15 Apr 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Sand Boils

  
  Science: liquefaction, rock blogging · 7 comments

• 8 Apr 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Schist

  
  Science: metamorphic rocks, rock blogging · 12 comments

• 1 Apr 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Hypertufa

  
  Science: April Fool, rock blogging · 2 comments

• 25 Mar 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Died for Your Sins Edition

  
  Science: fossils, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments

• 23 Mar 2005: Cyclic Extinctions?

  
  Science: datamining, mass extinctions, statistics · no comments

• : Where Are All the Earth Science Bloggers?

  
  Links, Science: geoblogosphere · 29 comments

• 18 Mar 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff

  
  Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments

• 11 Mar 2005: Friday Rock Blogging: Granite

  
  Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 13 comments

• 7 Mar 2005: I’m Getting Sleepy

  
  Links, Science: circadian cycle · 7 comments

• 5 Mar 2005: Science Friday on Saturday

  
  Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments

• 14 Feb 2005: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics

  
  Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 9 comments

• 25 Jan 2005: Holy Shit Elephants Are Awesome

  
  Science: elephants, seismology, tsunamis · 1 comment

• 24 Jan 2005: We’re All Molluscan Pornographers Here

  
  Links, Science: blogular wanking, molluscs · no comments

• 11 Jan 2005: Mmmm Rocket Fuel

  
  Politics, Science: earthquakes, ground water, perchlorate, pollution · no comments

• 31 Aug 2004: Today’s Factoid

  
  Science: botany, nuts · 1 comment

• 23 Aug 2004: Pedantry, Physics

  
  Links, Science: · 7 comments

• 13 Aug 2004: I Smell a Thesis

  
  Science: · 1 comment

• 11 Aug 2004: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 comments

• 9 Aug 2004: Moment Tensors as a Heuristic Discourse that Goes “Burble, Burble”

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: · 6 comments

• 26 Jul 2004: Cruise to the Interior of the Earth!

  
  Science: crackpots, hollow earth · 1 comment

• 15 Apr 2004: Oh Boy an Earthquake!

  
  Science: · 10 comments

• 11 Dec 2003: Peer Review II

  
  Politics, Science: peer review · no comments

• 8 Dec 2003: Peer Review the Asbestos Way

  
  Politics, Science: · 1 comment

• 21 Nov 2003: That’s So 1986

  
  Science: · no comments

• 12 Jun 2003: That Explains Everything

  
  Links, Science: crackpots, lazy journalism, nanoscience · no comments

• 4 Jun 2003: Exploded Your Mom’s Cambrian Energy Drinks

  
  Personal, Science: · 4 comments

• 13 May 2003: Anus vs. Mouth

  
  Science: · no comments

• 22 Jan 2003: La Loi de Qui?

  
  Personal, Science: · 1 comment

• 11 Sep 2002: New Moon Over Kentucky

  
  Science: moons, planetary science · 2 comments

• 9 Jun 2002: My fault

  
  Science: canned goods, death, earthquakes, guest posts, Hayward Fault, san andreas · 4 comments

• 13 Mar 2002: Ask a Celebrity Physicist

  
  Meta, Science: · 6 comments

• 9 Mar 2002: Love That Love Dart

  
  Links, Science, Whimsy: · 4 comments

• 7 Dec 2001: Gravitas

  
  Links, Science: gravity, mapping, New Madrid · no comments

• 6 Dec 2001: I Biblioteket

  
  Science: disasters, libraries, licorice, serendipitous discoveries · no comments

• 3 Dec 2001: My Favorite Geo-Jargon

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal, Science: etymology, jargon, words · no comments