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• 2 Mar 2020: Recent Results in Seismology

  
  Science: academic journals, earthquakes, liquefaction, nonvolcanic tremor, seismology · 1 comment

  ...  will rupture in an earthquake. Once the earthquake has already started, though, an early warning system can use the fast-traveling but ...

• 19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps

  
  Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments

  ...  just a straightforward list of the people whose names are already in the history books, it is a sneaky kind of aspirational statement. ...

• 29 Jan 2020: Breaking Up with the Richter Scale

  
  Science: earthquakes, Gutenberg, magnitude scales, Mercalli Intensity, richter, sesimology, unfinished drafts · 5 comments

  ...  a range of intensities. But back to the story! We can already see the seeds of discontent in this relationship. The Richter scale was ...

• 13 Jan 2020: Using Ecto’s Script Feature to Post Your Delicious Links

  
  Meta: code, del.cio.us, ecto, perl · no comments

  ...  - you still have to manually delete any links you've already posted, and add titles, extra formatting, etc. - but it gets the job ...

• : Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?

  
  Aimless: · 12 comments

  ...  amounts of patience for this trendy buzzphrase may have already entered a steady and irrevocable decline. If Peak Peak Patience hasn't already happened, it will happen soon; I hope that global media leaders are ...

• 4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  by the next shiny object. Get a nice banner image already! Figure out how to automate a weekly or bi-weekly link post. My ...

• 30 Dec 2020: Cell Phones Make You Drive More

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  But when last-minute space caseness takes root in an already car-driven culture, it doesn't just irk some crotchety bloggers, it ...

• 8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!

  
  Meta: · 4 comments

  ...  step up and do it ourselves. I know that your budget is already stretched. You've been eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for ...

• 19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  in the comments? Oh, and it can't be pyrite. Everyone already knows ...

• 13 Sep 2020: Blogosphere Administration (and bonus liquid nitrogen recipe)

  
  Links: · 3 comments

  ...  Please take Callan Bentley's survey, if you haven't already. He needs your input by Monday - and I am super-curious to see results ...

• 12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters

  
  Aimless: · 11 comments

  ...  and Bam, and Indonesia, and San Simeon, California - we already knew what was wrong. The real problems are social, political, and ...

• 1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)

  
  Aimless: · 7 comments

  ...  in the ground where the mud used to be. Chris Rowan has already blogged about that study, so I'll not summarize it again ...

• 25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance

  
  Aimless: · 3 comments

  ...  I think about this, I get depressed, because the system is already such a fragile web of carefully pumping every drop of sustainable yield ...

• 9 Mar 2020: Borg Business

  
  Meta: · 3 comments

  ...  on ~3 posts/week (not necessarily mine) If you already use del.icio.us, having two accounts is kind of a pain, but with a little trickery it can work OK. If you don't already use del.icio.us, you can install a little bookmarklet in your browser's ...

• 31 Jan 2020: Hello World

  
  Meta: introduction · 31 comments

  ...  a joke for most of the 6+ years I've been blogging. I've already suffered the embarrassment of a professional acquaintance Googling me ...  details of my sex life. Clearly, all the fun has already been sucked out of my writing, leaving behind a shambling blog-golem ...

• : Moving to New Internets

  
  Meta: · 5 comments

  ...  several of you have already guessed, I've been assimilated into the ScienceBorg. Please update ...

• 26 Oct 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?

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

  ...  from re-entry as a barrier to panspermia? I thought we'd already settled that one, when ultra-high-resolution magnetic measurements on ...

• 29 Jul 2020: Understanding Everyday Symbolism

  
  Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 comments

  ...  and something else. Answer carefully. PZ Myers has already failed this quiz. Connecting the theme of "They are crazy ...

• 28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage

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

  ...  think it's silly to put Darwin's house on the list when we already have the Galápagos Islands. Is the particular chair in which Darwin ...  influence on human history is easy to see. There is already enough geology on the list to fill an entire undergraduate curriculum - ...

• 13 Mar 2020: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof

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

  ...  is really trite and overdone. As if we didn't know that already. Despite its collusion with white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, ...

• 18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos

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

  ...  nerds) colloquially known as Megasphaera ornata have already been found in the same rock (see Pharyngula for pictures). The new ...  was deposited ~550 million years ago, cnidarians had already split off from the lineage that evolved into cuter, fuzzier animals ...

• 18 Jul 2020: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You

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

  ...  of abrupt deglaciation. Work done in Iceland has already shown a correlation between eruption volume and changing glacial cover. ...  by a landslide. They start with a mountain that's already been weakened by other developments in the volcano, and just need a ...

• 4 Jul 2020: Boringness

  
  Meta: blogtinkery, new theme · 5 comments

  ...  surreal - have you found them offensive? I've already filtered out one Republican campaign, I'll filter more if I see ...

• 27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril

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

  ...  hitched; she seems to have her priorities straight: I already know shit like "less booze = less money" or "borrow stuff or make it, ...

• 24 Apr 2020: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too

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

  ...  up to be, then mentoring would be unnecessary because the already existing professional relationships would be fulfilling the needs of ...

• 16 Apr 2020: Hello world!

  
  Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments

  ...  tiny 'zines, crackpot scientific publications, etc. I already thought of a cool domain name Disadvantages: I'm not even ...

• 29 Mar 2020: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept

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

  ...  blog to write a post that will drive up and sustain their already-impressive traffic. The "little" blogger may or may not see a spike ...

• 19 Jan 2020: Lecture Zero

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

  ...  topic, is probably not the way to go. If students don't already know what you're talking about, you're not giving them the necessary ...  for learning or developing new interest; if they do already know what you're talking about, they'll be bored. Taking four proper ...

• 13 Jan 2020: Pretty Volcanokaos!

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

  Alert readers may already be aware of the latest eruption at Augustine, one of several volcanoes ...

• 29 Oct 2020: Operation Frozen Beaver a Dismal Failure

  
  Politics: flags, Hans Island · 4 comments

  ...  after Exercise Frozen Beaver that the Canadian flag had already been flattened by harsh winds. "How do I know that? We're monitoring ...

• 21 Sep 2020: Things, Awesome and Otherwise

  
  Links: bioluminescence, flags, genetic engineering, glow in the dark, Hans Island · no comments

  ...  in the human genome? I want bioluminescent toenails already. Not Awesome: the cessation of flag wars: "We acknowledge that we ...

• 12 Sep 2020: The 4th Circuit Pees on the 4th Amendment

  
  Politics: civil liberties, fascist police states, FEMA · 2 comments

  ...  then precedes to tell us that some churches had already enquired into whether they could send a van or bus on Sundays to pick ...

• 5 Aug 2020: Friday Miscellany

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: Friday random ten, Hans Island, Harry Potter · 2 comments

  ...  to peer pressure (again) and gotten a flickr account. And already used up my upload bandwidth for the month. Woo woo! I'm sure you've ...

• 23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah

  
  Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments

  ...  searching for ads, and by the time the ad is out, you're already behind. Two A kitten in bubble wrap. Just imagine the ...

• 26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms

  
  Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments

  ...  portobello mushrooms, seaweed). I feel healthier already. Two Jeanne at Body and Soul has yet another post that hits you like ...

• 18 Apr 2020: Reading Material

  
  Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments

  ...  Fornicating Harlot, Shut up about the birth control already. Your comments and concerns are so very important to us, that we ...

• 30 Mar 2020: Pharmaceuticals

  
  Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments

  ...  for pharmacists is most of the way down here: Four states already have laws that specifically allow pharmacists to refuse to fill ...

• 17 Feb 2020: Initiative

  
  Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments

  ...  girly hearts on my notebooks?" - it's "Given that I have already written Mrs. Yami Bookstoreman in girly hearts all over this copy of ...

• 7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff

  
  Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments

  ...  mathematicians and others. Second, Michael Silverstein has already used the word metapragmatic to refer to folk reasoning about (reasoning ...

• 25 Jan 2020: Holy Shit Elephants Are Awesome

  
  Science: elephants, seismology, tsunamis · 1 comment

  ...  And carried a few tourists with them, but whatever. We already know that elephants communicate seismically, and are pretty good at ...

• 20 Jan 2020: Fantasy Cabinet

  
  Politics: fantasy politics · 9 comments

  ...  already fucked up Not One Damn Dime Day by buying gas, of all things - not only ...

• 31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  utterly deluged with calls from anxious California lefties already. And if John Kerry makes one more pandering remark about sacrificing ...

• 28 Oct 2020: Cause for Optimism

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  its act together: Those liberal organizations that already knew how to do politics the AFL-CIO, the League of Conservation ...

• 31 Aug 2020: On What Grounds Is This Legal?

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  half as clever as the Justice Department's, they'll have already written a comprehensive memo outlining exactly how this kind of ...

• 15 Aug 2020: Sidebar Gadget Manager: Implementation Notes

  
  Meta: code, Movable Type, php, sidebar gadgets · no comments

  I'm currently installing the show/hide sidebar gadgets script, from scriptygoddess. Because I don't want to have the script included on every single bloody page, file, and MT template, I'm hiding it in a layer of includes which have caused a couple problem ...

• 21 Jul 2020: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic

  
  Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment

  ...  examples or analogies, and idiot-check what I've got already, I'd be much obliged. 0. For the Record For those of you not ...  take far longer than the 45 minutes allotted. Anyway, I've already made a substantial ($120) statement that my attention is worthless in ...

• 12 Jul 2020: Yay Class Warfare!

  
  Politics: classism, health care, John Edwards, labor unions, trade, workers rights · no comments

  ...  policy has only been in the air for like a week, and already I'm sick and tired of feeling like a moderate all the time. If we'd ...

• 13 May 2020: Life of the Mind

  
  Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments

  ...  habit of devaluing unpaid work, not before bedtime - it's already after bedtime. A quick note, though: only mothers are allowed to define ...

• 30 Apr 2020: Begging the Oxymoron

  
  Human Fuzzies: languages, whorfianism · no comments

  ...  the Last Noble Carrier of Such Meaning in Human Thought is already covered by another, equally apt phrase; particularly particularly ...

• 25 Mar 2020: The Neon Leg Warmer of the Caribbean

  
  Politics: Haiti, Somalia, tourism, war · 1 comment

  ...  because that would have been undemocratic) that is already retro-chic even though it happened less than a month ago? Haiti is ...

• 16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism

  
  Politics: · 2 comments

  ...  than a genuine multilateralist. *"But killing people is already seen as an effective path to change," says the peacenik. "Stand on your ...

• 7 Mar 2020: Investing With Your Values

  
  Human Fuzzies: book reviews, investing, money, socially responsible investment · 3 comments

  ...  investor to implement various screening measures. I already know more or less what I care about and was looking for some practical ...  to cover, there's not much time for specific tips. I've already made some decisions about my asset allocation for the near future ...

• 26 Feb 2020: Urban Homesteading

  
  Links: · no comments

  6,000 lbs of produce growing on an average city lot. These people live about a mile down the hill from me, so not only is this inspiring (and a little intimidating), it's potentially useful kicks-in-the-gardening-pants timed precisely for the microclimate. ...

• 22 Feb 2020: Le Tutoiement des Blogs

  
  Human Fuzzies: french, net culture · 3 comments

  ...  to add to the discussion anyway. Surely someone has already written a comprehensive, cross-cultural discussion of (in)formal modes ...

• 27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke

  
  Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments

  ...  that he could just pull us out of the sand, if we hadn't already called for a tow. Instead, he notes that Peter's registration stickers ...

• 9 Jul 2020: The Difference Between Shit and the Internet

  
  Whimsy: blogular wanking, feces, Internet overload, shit · 32 comments

  ...  was on metafilter, so you've probably all seen it already: The Internet Is Shit. You may not have seen plasticbag.org defending ...

• 17 May 2020: If I Were A Matrix: Reloaded Focus Group

  
  Human Fuzzies: movie reviews, sci-fi · 1 comment

  ...  Middle American: Oh, for the love of Pete! There's already too much sex. I counted at least 347 distinct nipple shots. I wouldn't ...

• 11 Apr 2020: Get Your Imperialism Straight

  
  Politics, Whimsy: Canada, imperialism · 4 comments

  ...  these people are forgetting, of course, is that there are already way more than 50 states. Canada became a State quite a long time ago, ...

• 23 Dec 2020: Holiday Someones

  
  Meta: · 6 comments

  ...  of jeans today. It's sad, giving up on something you've already patched past death - like losing a beloved pet that also helped you not ...

• 10 Dec 2020: Dilemma

  
  Personal, Politics: · 6 comments

  ...  I should still be working really hard right now, or I have already completed enough work to finish my finals in a somewhat leisurely ...

• 25 Aug 2020: Confuse the Bubblebots

  
  Personal: · 1 comment

  ...  brings the lens completely back into the case instead. I already knew I was overly dependent on the zoom, so I didn't learn anything ...

• 10 Aug 2020: Happy Boys and Girls

  
  Meta, Personal: · 2 comments

  ...  for once: how are the jobs coming? Have you started already? Oh yes, that. I've started work, with a bit of an erratic schedule, ...

• 17 Apr 2020: surface learning

  
  Teaching: · 8 comments

  ...  and make connections between this material and things I've already learned. This all takes time. I can't always follow along, take good ...

• 8 Apr 2020: gotta pee

  
  Personal: bathroom etiquette, gender · 16 comments

  ...  you actually see who you were peeing with, even if you already know who they are. It's always the guys who do this, too; maybe it's ...

• 31 Mar 2020: Catching Up with Someone

  
  Meta, Whimsy: · 7 comments

  ...  lynx, which runs on the crappiest of crappy systems and is already available from most *nix shell accounts. I'm looking for a more ...

• 10 Mar 2020: Someone Says it Again

  
  Meta: monkeys · 1 comment

  ...  there God, it's me Margaret? hmm... probably not. I've already explained my atheism/agnosticism, haven't I? Though I guess that was ...

• : Much Ado About

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  likely outcome being, that I'll write off the investment already made, if I can't reasonably expect it to improve shortly. No need to ...  I have few reservations in viewing the investment already made as a sunk cost. Here, I think we get to the heart of what ...

• 18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism

  
  Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments

  ...  aisle needs to be labelled "girl's roleplay". Our society already suffers a horrible shortage of flamboyant cross-dressing men - is there ...

• 8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois

  
  Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment

  ...  thing about going to a small school is that the five of us already knew each other, and with one glance we were able to establish that no ...

• 28 Dec 2020: Night of the Living Dead Mall

  
  Human Fuzzies, Politics: Iowa City, Lord of the Rings, urban sprawl · no comments

  ...  to repeat the same old glowing platitudes that others have already repeated, and I'm too tired to give a coherent, insightful review. So I ...

• 14 Dec 2020: filthy bloggish slime

  
  Meta: · no comments

  ...  of the thing, so I can be even more disturbed than I already am. Addendum: how many people are sitting out there, writing blogs in ...

• 10 Dec 2020: tuna fish sculpture

  
  Food, Meta: cooking, groceries · no comments

  Point #1: I tried to edit the comments file from two posts back and I seem to have broken it. So if you have anything to say about the Episcopal church, perhaps you can say it here, while I try to work out where this file handle resource has got to. Poi ...

• 2 Dec 2020: Jar O’ Fish

  
  Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish food, herring · no comments

  ...  the hypothesis that akvavit tastes better after you've already had significant quantities of it. It's not true. Did I forget to ...

• 6 Nov 2020: things about busses

  
  Meta, Personal: boots, maps, weather · no comments

  ...  boots (well, month-old to me, I bought them used) are already wearing down on the outside of the heel, which seems to be a bit of a ...

• 2 Nov 2020: false hopes

  
  Meta, Personal: minions · no comments

  ...  of you audience-people have some kind of a handle on it already. Which is a bit unfortunate from the acquiring-new-minions perspective, ...

• 15 Oct 2020: puttin’ the “lux” back in “benelux”

  
  Personal: trains, travelogue · no comments

  ...  Europe, it became apparent that the only place I haven't already been that's within a reasonable trainlength of Copenhagen, where I can ...

• 5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen

  
  Aimless, Personal: · no comments

  ...  to discover that I've been here for more than two months already, and it's time to start planning a vacation for the mid-semester break. ...

• 30 Sep 2020: Problem Set #1

  
  Aimless: · 1 comment

  ...  with probability 0.1n, where n is the number of bars I've already tried that night. On average, how many bars will I visit each night I ...

• 25 Sep 2020: nonsense words

  
  Aimless: · no comments

  ...  gently prod other bloggers to notice problems which I have already corrected in my own writing. --- [ungh... falling asleep...can't ...

• 7 Sep 2020: smoke-clogged lung

  
  Personal: cbcbc, drinking, life · 1 comment

  ...  morning, and that adds up. See, now I'm getting bored already by my own life (as opposed to my own thoughts, which are endlessly ...

• 3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…

  
  Meta, Personal: · no comments

  ...  formations" and "stromatolites," and also the fact that I already knew much of what was covered today, I was able to keep abreast of most ...

• 16 Jul 2020: mistaken identity

  
  Meta, Politics: · no comments

  ...  how you can fail to notice these things until you've already eaten the baby ...