Search Results: earth
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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... not like there’s not going to be an earthquake.” Oh ho ho, won't Mr. Lok and his husband be chuckling at ... In fact, the potential link between same-sex marriage and earthquakes is one of the strongest arguments I've ever seen in favor of ... observation that same-sex marriage might be followed by earthquakes has been made before - notably by Israeli parliamentarian Shlomo ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... wet sticking close to my field of expertise: the Expanding Earth hypothesis. The Expanding Earth hypothesis was one of a number of ideas proposed during the heady days ...
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24 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists?
Science: disciplinary boundaries, geology, geophysics, scientific culture · 13 comments... a geologist? I have a B.S. in geophysics and an M.S. in earth and planetary science with a funky geophysics/geohydrology emphasis. I took some intro physical geology and earth history as a sophomore, but I have never taken formal courses in ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments... Hunga Ha'apai, in Tonga. Three days later, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurred on the Tonga trench. Was the timing of these two events ... Why do I think the events were unrelated? Well: Earthquakes happen all the time. Thankfully for Tongan residents, I am using a ...
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17 Mar 2020: “Temblor”
Human Fuzzies, Science: earthquakes, synonyms, temblors · 23 comments... of mine IMed me this weekend, very excited about a minor earthquake. She used the word "temblor" and was very excited about that, too - ...
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9 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: blog carnivals, hydrology, resumes, sexual harassment, Wikipedia · 1 comment... society The Onion: San Francisco Historians Condemn 2020 Earthquake Deniers -- via NOVA Geoblog Thus Spake Zuska : It's Difficult To ... in Science carnivals, I note that Wikipedia's women earth scientists category is considered "underpopulated". And, bizarrely, there ...
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2 Mar 2020: Recent Results in Seismology
Science: academic journals, earthquakes, liquefaction, nonvolcanic tremor, seismology · 1 comment... question, here is what I'm skimming: Clay might trigger earthquakes - Many clay minerals break down, when heated, to produce H2O + ... to leave, it might weaken the fault enough to produce an earthquake (cf. the beer can experiment). Takahashi et al. ran a set of lab ...
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24 Feb 2020: “Something Called Volcano Monitoring”: Bobby Jindal Needs a Geology Lesson
Politics, Science: Pinatubo, US party politics, volcano monitoring, volcanoes · 32 comments... increased spending as an economic stimulus to the nation's earth scientists, instrument manufacturers, etc., - even ignoring all that, ...
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: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: diy, google earth, Links · no comments... science can make even bacon disgusting. Building a Google Earth Geology Layer -- Lots of great resources accumulating in the comments here. Magma Cum Laude: Using Google Earth to visualize volcanic and seismic activity -- A discussion of the ...
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19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments... around a bit for existing stamps that feature earth scientists, I found the pickings to be surprisingly slim. Alfred Wegener ... full year of weather data in interior Greenland. Other earth scientists with stamps: Milankovitch. Zhang Heng, creator of the ...
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5 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 3 comments... Accretionary Wedge #16: Pondering the geological future of Earth -- Cockroach geologists FTW. Carnival of the Arid #1 Carnival of Space: ...
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29 Jan 2020: Breaking Up with the Richter Scale
Science: earthquakes, Gutenberg, magnitude scales, Mercalli Intensity, richter, sesimology, unfinished drafts · 5 comments... or defects. Draft date: January 23, 2020 A powerful earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale ripped through northern Chile ... with the world's first-ever measure of the "bigness" of an earthquake - a measure that is independent of where you are standing when the ...
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28 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 4 comments... -- The theme is unhinged speculation about the future Earth. Calculus: The Musical! -- The concept may or may not be more charming ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 commentsIn addition to helping judge this year's Open Laboratory science blogging anthology, I'm also the production editor (i.e., typesetting jockey). So as I go through, reading the entries in much greater detail than I ever would otherwise, I'm noticing a coupl ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments... set up simple computational models of the Earth in order to understand why seismograms look the way they do. You can send a basic earthquake source through the model Earth to see what kind of seismogram might ...
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22 Jan 2020: Flood Basalts
Aimless: · 3 comments... seems a little arbitrary. Examples: Reversals of the Earth's magnetic field Wiggles in the record of oxygen and/or carbon isotope ...
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21 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 comment... with a dash of geology -- Darcy's law! Four Stone Hearth (58th Edition) -- Anthropology carnival! Association of American ...
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15 Jan 2020: Manhattan Fault Line
Aimless: · 3 comments... the street. I have no idea how the conversation got onto earthquakes, but it did, and this woman told me about a fault line that runs ...
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14 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 comment... for producing pretty stacked graphs on a timeline Earth Impact Effects -- Apocalypse porn. Put in some meteorite impact ...
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12 Jan 2020: Listen to Earthquakes
Links: · 3 comments... maps, seismograms, and sound files for every M>5 earthquake that occurs anywhere in the world. Très cool. And, way to ...
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7 Jan 2020: Volcano Geodesy 101
Aimless: · 6 comments... going up and down, the crust gradually relaxing after an earthquake, and the slow creep of plate tectonics. As for what actual GPS ... averages. GPS data is very noisy, compared to the signals earth scientists are looking for. This is in large part due to fluctuations in ...
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2 Jan 2020: A Quick Caveat for Obsessive Yellowstone-Watchers
Aimless: · 6 comments... porn, you have probably been following the current earthquake swarm at Yellowstone. While there is no reason to believe that this ... to let that spoil your fun. If you're watching the recent earthquakes page, take the reported earthquake depths with an especially big ...
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31 Dec 2020: Geological Predictions for 2020
Aimless: · 13 comments... subduction zone megathrust event. The magnitude ~9 earthquake, and ensuing tsunami, devastate the coastal Pacific Northwest, ... to open-source software. A few days after the earthquake, Mt. Jefferson erupts. The evacuation of Corvallis is panicky and ... else remember running that one?) At least three M5-6 earthquakes will strike California, resulting in minor property damage. At ...
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18 Dec 2020: California is Safe?
Aimless: · 10 comments... of deaths from natural hazard "events"* across the U.S., earthquakes, volcanoes, and other spectacular geophysical hazards are much less ... naturally hazardous areas in the United States: Fans of earthquake doooooooooom will immediately see a problem in this methodology. ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... deepest lake in the world (1,620 m) with 20 percent of the Earth's fresh water. 43. Ayers Rock (known now by the Aboriginal name of ... The Tunguska Impact site in Siberia 82. Feel an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 5.0. - The first earthquake I ever ...
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27 Oct 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #152
Aimless: · 10 commentsThe Where on Google Earth? competition has been going on for almost two years now, wandering the ... new players, here's the game: Open up Google Earth and try to find the patch of Earth pictured here. Be the first to post its coordinates, and describe the ...
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15 Oct 2020: Oh Look, Links
Links: · 2 commentsI'm saving all my brilliance for a job interview today. So here, have some slices of other people's brilliance. Great news! Seed is raffling off prizes for the Donors Choose challenge! Donate as little as $5 for a chance to win 1 of 50 free subscriptions ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... D, who teaches physical science, biology, and earth science in St. Louis, is struggling on both fronts. He can't afford copy ...
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9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 comments... of kimberlites--A case study from north-eastern Kansas Earth and Planetary Science Letters DOI: 10.2020/j.epsl.2020.08.006 Microbial ... Fault - This is the fault responsible for the 2020 M7.3 earthquake in Taiwan, and the site of one of a couple major drilling projects ...
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1 Oct 2020: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2020
Aimless: · 3 comments... several projects that will bring low-tech hands-on Earth science to kids across the country: rock and mineral kits, stream tables, ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... focused lists of the 5 minerals they would introduce to earth science n00bs. They are mostly focused on minerals that are "important" ... hydrogeologist, I do most of my thinking about the Earth and other planets without reference to minerals. Occasionally I need to ...
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14 Sep 2020: The Rusty King of All Metals
Aimless: · 2 comments... the mechanic, are benefited by the mineral products of the earth; without Iron alone, (the rusty king of all metals,) man could not exist ...
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20 Aug 2020: The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 26 comments... whenever the temperature breaks 80 (that's 25 of your Earth units). Naturally, I spent a lot of time thinking about ice cream. Ice ... nitrogen - pouring a -321° liquid (that's a mere 77 Earth units above absolute zero) into your ice cream mix will freeze it so ...
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12 Aug 2020: OMG AMNH PONIES!!1!
Aimless: · 9 comments... wish I'd had time to do more than a quick jog through the earth science exhibits; there are ultra old-fashioned displays asserting that ...
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22 Jul 2020: Volcanoes Are Good
Aimless: · 17 comments... and an enemy of our salty friends. Evil? Just because Earth life is too weak to handle the occasional flood basalt without losing ... Why, without volcanoes, there wouldn't be any life on Earth at all! Let me remind you of just a few of the things volcanoes do for ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... crank. At the Fall Meeting in San Francisco, earthquakes would occur near the conclusion of every important talk. Other, ...
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17 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... to be related to natural gas [methane] seeping out of the earth there. After some thought I decided this theme was just dumb.) Strike ... is it that I got this far without hearing about the Earth Science Women's Network? Dear me, won't somebody please puke on John ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... Andreas Fault that occurred in the hours before two small earthquakes. Here's the BBC's writeup; for those of you who can sneak behind ... all up to speed on the latest developments in geyser-based earthquake prediction. It'll be a short post. The geyser in Calistoga is a ...
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11 Jul 2020: Friday Earthquake Blogging: M7.9 Southeast Alaska
Aimless: · 1 comment... was the 50th anniversary of the 2020 Southeast Alaska earthquake and ensuing Lituya Bay megatsunami, a half-kilometer high wave which killed only a handful of people. The earthquake happened on the Fairweather fault, a strike-slip fault which forms ...
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5 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 6 comments... the exciting honor of hosting the world's largest-ever earthquake drill, and there is a blog devoted to the preparations. Readers not ...
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30 Jun 2020: Tunguskatennial
Aimless: · no comments... big was it, and are we more doomed than we thought? Dot Earth posted a scary animation of near-Earth orbit asteroids. ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments... procedure he did to estimate the total energy from all earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater in the calendar years 2020-2020. This ... it is good enough for a quick and hand-wavy sketch: Earthquake magnitude is a logarithmic scale; each magnitude unit represents an ...
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24 Jun 2020: More on Mathphobia
Aimless: · 12 commentsI've been reading The Design of Everyday Things, which I recommend as a useful and interesting way of thinking about all sorts of minor frustrations in daily life. It's also applicable to teaching - I've definitely noticed many student problems that have ...
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20 Jun 2020: Someone Punk’d the CBS Science Desk!
Aimless: · 17 comments... Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... was left unnamed for the first two centuries of its Earthling acquaintance. Luna Saturni was enough for the Dutch astronomer. When ... A newly-discovered trio of extra-solar, several-Earth-mass bodies 42 light-years away definitely merit the label of "planet". ...
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18 Jun 2020: Advice for a Mathphobe?
Aimless: · 25 comments... is more or less an application of chemistry and physics to Earth and other planets, so you will need a background in at least one of ...
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17 Jun 2020: Another Lusi Update
Aimless: · 4 comments... based largely on a combination of public records, like the earthquake catalogs maintained by the NEIC, and data about the drilling that ...
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12 Jun 2020: Devonian Fossil Gorge to Become… SIlurian Fossil Gorge?
Aimless: · 9 comments... must have floors that are at least 1 foot (or 1.4 of your Earth football diameters) above a designated "100 year" flood elevation. These ...
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: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 commentsEarthquake engineer Kit Miyamoto has posted a journal of his trip to Sichuan. If ... well as the logistical difficulties of the immediate post-earthquake recovery. The lesson to be learned from the Sichuan earthquake is the same as the lesson of basically every major earthquake in the ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 comments... there's another paper due out, this time in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, (I'll link to it here as soon as it's ... ... but it was also just three days after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. Could the earthquake have caused the eruption? Hah. No. It was totally the exploration ...
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5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 comments... caused changes cm data depth distance drilling dynamic earthquake east eruption et fault fig figure fluid formation gas ground ... al changes corresponding difficult discuss distance dunbar earthquakes eruptions et events examples exception figure fluid gas historical ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... I am sterile. Life would go on. I might also die in an earthquake, in which case life would not go on and I would very much regret any ...
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25 Apr 2020: The Meaning of Significance
Aimless: · 3 comments... off: The Earth Day Accretionary Wedge is up, full of environmental musings from the geoblogosphere - check it out! Since it is still Earth Week here at Berkeley, I'll follow up my carnival contribution with an ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... Earth Day, everyone. Or, if you're on campus here, Happy Earth Week, complete with live bands at noon every day and a really weird ... was a pomegranate to commemorate the Armenian genocide. Earth Week means I've got three more days to write about the relationship of ...
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19 Apr 2020: Earthquake in Illinois: What’s up with Wabash Valley?
Aimless: · 16 comments... time there's an earthquake in the Midwest, my mother emails me, just in case I want to move ... study it. So that's how I heard about yesterday morning's earthquake in Illinois - a bit less exciting than waking up to it, but that's fine with me. This is not earthquake enough to reverse the geoscientific brain drain from the Midwest to ...
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21 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: Sand Boil
Aimless: · 6 comments... of contacts between individual soil grains. During an earthquake, this network is disrupted. But the stuff on top is still there, ...
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14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 comments... understatement. The photo was taken 15 miles (25 of your Earth kilometers) away from the eruption; it contains no persons for scale, but ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... supposed to be working on. And wouldn't you know it, the Earth and Planetary Science Letters RSS feed just dumped a couple of issues on ... release. But if you start revising your middle-school earth science textbooks based on just a single tomographic anisotropy model of ...
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22 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Oil Shale
Aimless: · 12 comments... In more petrochemically convenient circumstances, the earth does this for us - if you bury the rocks deeply enough, geothermal heat ...
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20 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... Nature Geoscience on the status of women in the academic earth sciences. I meant to review it here, but haven't had the oomph. Instead, ... Ten Million Years of Solitude, and The Dynamic Earth. One point that hasn't been discussed much yet is that graduate school in ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... say, comparative literature. Graduate students in the earth sciences typically have the option to get a "real" job without leaving ...
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: Love Songs for Geoscientists
Aimless: · 18 comments... by. Something a little less relentlessly cheesy than The Earthquake Of Your Love. As it turns out, geological love songs are hard to ...
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8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 comments... have any quartz It has a label If you take a bit of the Earth's mantle, heat it until it just starts to melt, and then store the ...
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6 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... responsible for upsetting the greatest sports franchise on Earth." More on medical geophagy in chimps: montmorillonite clay and the ...
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1 Feb 2020: We Can Have a New Geological Epoch If We Want
Aimless: · 21 comments... overlords. So assuming that cockroaches prefer to see Earth history as a series of distinct periods rather than as a continuum, will ...
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23 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge #5: Geological Misconceptions and Pie
Science: blog carnivals, debunking, geoblogosphere, national pie day, pie charts · 14 comments... Wedge, the Internet's premier blog carnival for the earth sciences! First, I have some news for you. Make sure you're sitting down ... steal the fat balls from 1.5m high up on our dispenser. Earth's mantle isn't molten. No, really, it isn't. Mantle flow doesn't drive ...
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17 Jan 2020: Reading Material for the Week
Science: academic journals, International Year of Planet Earth, trends in science · 3 comments... 2020 is the International Year of Planet Earth (why does nobody tell me these things?). In honor of the project, this ...
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: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals
Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments... Research Letters G Cubed JGR - Solid Earth Reviews of Geophysics Tectonics Water Resources Research Update: ...
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7 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge Call for Posts
Science: blog carnivals, national pie day · 6 comments... (least-)favorite geological misconceptions Pie and the earth sciences Or just send in your favorite earth science post from the past month! I am looking forward to your ...
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25 Dec 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #82
Science: drainage networks, google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 4 commentsAfter a hint, I found Ron's volcanic complex. Which means I can declare the recent trend of oblique images to be so very last week, and return to some straight-up, top-down imagery. I would really like a geomorphologist (or at least, someone who can play ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... class was to assemble (or at least think about) your own earthquake survival kit. Did you do that assignment? Why are you telling me ... numbers and cited some relevant examples from historical earthquakes and tried. There might even be hope for the future. I think I need ...
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12 Nov 2020: Attn: Geoblogosphere
Links, Meta: blog carnivals · 2 comments... how well are the earth sciences represented in the nominations for the 2020 Open Laboratory? ...
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1 Nov 2020: 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... the Lab Lemming objects to radical feminism in the alkali earths, but gives it more consideration in the noble gases. Dr. Shellie has ...
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23 Oct 2020: Free and Open-Source Learnin’s
Links, Science: freebies, open source, podcasts, textbooks · 2 comments... beefier. I should also mention that lectures from the Earth Will Kill Us All 101 course I'm teaching-assisting this semester are ...
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22 Oct 2020: Carnivalling
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, civil liberties, scientiae · 1 comment... of The Accretionary Wedge, the blog carnival for the earth sciences, covers lots of ways the Earth could kill you. (Am I totally lame for not posting about this until a ...
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15 Oct 2020: Whatever Doesn’t Kill Us Will Provide a Nice Soak
Personal, Science: camping, hot springs, Long Valley · 3 comments... And of course, as magma shifts around, it creates frequent earthquakes. Most importantly, though, there are hot springs. Late Holocene ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... over all the in-depth personal details that led me to the earth sciences - the desire to connect with the land around me, to work on ... Caltech had a science breadth requirement. My early earth science education was not very compelling - a 7th-grade class taught ...
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30 Aug 2020: 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... (where "exotic" means "suspiciously similar to European Earth myths"), but now they're gone, the world is falling apart, and it's up to ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... teaching Intro to Earthquakes again this semester, and today feels like a light blogging day, so ... were mere fetuses and infants during the 2020 Loma Prieta earthquake. Of course, I don't remember Loma Prieta, either, seeing as how I ...
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20 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #35
Science, Whimsy: glaciers, google earth, volcanoes, Where on (Google) Earth? · 8 comments... compilation, which you can add as a network link in Google Earth (thanks, ...
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13 Jul 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Planetary Warming
Politics, Science, Whimsy: climate change, planetary science · 1 comment... big earth science news this week is another study concluding that global warming ...
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11 Jul 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #26 – Now with 90% Fewer Coordinates!
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 11 commentsRon's view of the Deccan Traps had everyone stymied for a while... fortunately, he gave us a hint and now the crack pipe is circulating once again. #25 was perhaps a quartz or topaz on the hardness scale*. This one should be considerably easier to find; ...
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28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage
Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment... for more World Heritage proposals that celebrate science. Earth scientists are at an advantage here, because our work is so closely tied ... America plate boundary, and one of few locations on Earth where you can see a mid-ocean ridge in action on land) to the Vredefort ...
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22 Jun 2020: Where on (Google) Earth #20
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 5 comments... my operating system to something that can run Google Earth, and then to have managed to solve a Where on Google Earth puzzle before Ron Schott's secret laboratory of zombie minions finished ...
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11 Apr 2020: Looking for New Earth
Science: extrasolar planets, telescopes · 6 comments... on a lab prototype telescope capable of visually resolving Earth-like planets at a distance of 30 light-years. It's an immense technical ...
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10 Apr 2020: Another Earthquake Prediction Failure
Science: earthquake prediction · 4 comments... persistent in their attempts to obtain the Holy Grail of earthquake prediction, with proposed methods ranging from the primitive ... a number which defines the relative frequency of large earthquakes and small earthquakes. Previous studies have suggested that the ...
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18 Mar 2020: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes
Science: earthquakes · 10 comments... I've picked out to start: The energy in any given earthquake can be used to deform and fracture rocks surrounding the fault, sent ... The basic question posed by the figure above is, do large earthquakes release energy in the same way as small ones? The traditional ...
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3 Mar 2020: Earthquake Folksonomy
Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments... you feel that?". Perpetually oblivious, I only felt the earthquake because the guy standing next to me at the intersection pointed it ... using special seismologist tricks, though, just pure small earthquake shaking experience available to anyone who's lived here long ...
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30 Jan 2020: What’s the Good News of Geology?
Politics, Science: fund my research or San Francisco gets it, lay science, philosophy of science · 16 comments... and water, closing schools because some quack predicted an earthquake, and hopefully, finding joy in the crazy way our planet is put ... essential isn't, really. Before I start listing the earth science messages I think are utterly essential, I'd like to note that I'm ...
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22 Jan 2020: Sediment Transport by Splashing
Science: erosion, gardening, geomorphology, rain, science is pretty · 4 comments... Jon Furbish and colleagues, published recently in JGR Earth Surface, describes the effect of raindrops on sand, as observed with a ... useful to someone, somewhere, but not tremendously earthshattering (this entire process can be described with math! Gasp! Shock!), ...
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3 Nov 2020: What Seismotology Can Do For You
Science, Whimsy: science made stupid · 4 comments... Earth is surrounded by a layer of fat called the liposphere. With a technique ... by the consumption of too many tectonic plates) from the Earth's surface and expose the more sightly aestheticsphere ...
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24 Oct 2020: Hawaii, the New York Times, and Triggered Seismicity
Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 comments... an astonishingly confusing article on the idea that one earthquake could trigger others, thousands of miles away. The real meat of the answer is hidden in the last paragraph: While strong earthquakes trigger nearby aftershocks (in Hawaii a shallower 5.8 quake ...
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12 Oct 2020: Seismograms from North Korea
Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 comments... one basic difference between earthquakes and explosions. Earthquakes happen when two pieces of rock slide against each other; they ... For reasons Lab Lemming has outlined, we don't expect an earthquake as shallow as the event observed on Sunday to occur in that part of ...
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11 Sep 2020: TA Training for Berzerkelers
Teaching: blog carnivals, grad school, teacher training · 6 comments... department, we read seminal papers from the history of the earth sciences, and we talk about science. We don't discuss pedagogy. Then we ...
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5 Sep 2020: The Hottest “Science” Bloggers
Meta, Whimsy: disciplinary hierarchy, scientists · 1 comment... of the disciplinary hotness hierarchy is correct, with "Earth and Environment" coming out on top, followed by neuroscience (and I'll ...
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4 Sep 2020: Laborious Links: Patenting, Urban Geology, and Gratuitous Toilet Analogies
Links, Science: Bay Area geology, blog carnivals, gender, patents, work vs. family · no comments... affects the city landscape. RIP Steve Irwin: [A]n Earth scientist who says that the incurious deserve what they get is just as ...
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16 Aug 2020: The Grand Compendium of Geoscience Blogs
: · no comments... to the ongoing aftermath of Hurrcane Katrina. West Coast Earthquakes - Reports of local earthquakes and news from Western North America. Very little ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 commentsVolcanoes are easier to predict than earthquakes. While seismologists still argue about whether detectable pre-earthquake effects exist at all, volcanologists agree that eruptions are ... such as the tilt and bulge of a volcano's surface, the earthquakes magma produces as it moves, and the gases emitted from ...
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9 Aug 2020: Publication and Citation Rates of Female Earthquake Engineers
Politics, Science: academia, earthquake engineering, gender, Science · 5 comments... are two companion articles up in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering on publication rates and citation statistics in that ... senior researchers and examines citation patterns in earthquake engineering generally, while the second looks specifically at female ...
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4 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan
Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 comments... out drainage channels that look quite similar to those on Earth, and we have recently found lakes of it near the poles. But weather at ... that they're roughly equivalent to flash flood events on Earth. In the same issue of Nature, Tokano et al. point out that drizzle is ...
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27 Jul 2020: 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... statement: yes, they really are slighting the study of Earth. Don't make me rhapsodize about the value of satellite data - just go ...
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8 Jul 2020: Friday Mountain Blogging: Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada
Science: rock blogging, Sierra Nevada, stable isotopes · 6 comments... for a radiometric date. When dinosaurs roamed the earth 100 million years ago, these rocks were coagulating in a magma chamber ... and magnesium. This "evil" twin is much heavier than the Earth's mantle, while granite, the "good" twin, is lighter; joined together, ...
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30 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Interplanetary Breakfast Edition
Science: Mars, mountains, Venus · 2 comments... Venus, blueberries from Mars, and a molasse basin from Earth... I need to go grocery ...
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27 Jun 2020: Inconsequentialnesses
Human Fuzzies, Links: craigslist, fart jokes · 5 comments... So it's still available, simply seething with friendly earthworms, snails, slugs, and perhaps a salamander or two. Experience ...
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7 Jun 2020: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics
Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... neutral postures when someone bluntly asks what you, as an earth scientist, think about global warming... ...
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6 Jun 2020: I’ll Stick to Compost, Thanks
Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments... praying over the tomatoes. She invoked the sun, and the earth, and the spirit of the tree that blocks their light, and told the little ...
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24 Apr 2020: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too
Politics, Science: academia, mentoring, science studies · no comments... and it's made me want to advocate for mainstream views (earthquake prediction, anyone?) as often as minority ...
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18 Apr 2020: There Goes $14,000
Politics: academia, money, sexism · 14 comments... DisciplineWomenMenN WomenMenFemale differential Earth, Atmosphere, and Oceanographic Sciences8.0%92.0%50$64,751$79,410 ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... Academic Readers, and super-double-extralistic for Valued Earth Science ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... in their properly insignificant place. Everyone in Earth science knows that, no matter how grand their theories or widely applicable their methods, Mother Earth is smarter than they are. Or perhaps not so much the funniest thing as ...
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21 Mar 2020: Thomas Kuhn and Big Historiography
Science: Berzerkeley, Big History, Kuhn, Lacan, Marxism, paradigms, philosophy of science · 4 comments... There's "deep time" and later plate tectonics in earth history, and Darwinian evolution and genetics in life history, but is ...
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13 Mar 2020: Quickies
Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments... and then recoil in horror at their own invention. Earth science + social science = lurve? "All the years I worked as a ... said Dr. Mutter, 57, who is now the deputy director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. "I kept wondering if there wasn't ...
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23 Feb 2020: About Aboutas Aboutamus
Human Fuzzies: pirate jokes, words, writing · 4 comments... sounds fancier and more professional. What on earth is wrong with the word "about"? It seems to me to be a perfectly good ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... in history. All of history. The Big Bang through my earthshattering purchase of new socks last weekend. Big History. It's an ... plate. It's fun to invoke plate tectonics to explain why Earth is better than Venus or Mars. Better! Let's not shy away from the value ...
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3 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Jurassic Utah Edition
Science: Friday random ten, impact structures, iTunes iChing, liquefaction, salt domes, Upheaval Dome · no comments... generated in a single impact, or over the course of many earthquakes. Detailed stratigraphy, in particular as regards unconformities, ...
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: Friday Seismometer Blogging: Houfeng Didong Yi
Science: rock blogging, seismometers · 3 comments... kind of pendulum in there, which jiggles in response to earthquakes. This moves a little lever on the dragon's head, so that the ball ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... the physical sciences generally, and entirely lacking in earth science entries! Which probably means I should submit something. If I ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no commentsWell, I guess I did promise to try to reconstitute my notes from the AGU mass communication sessions I attended. Like many reconstituted foods, this might be a touch gritty-pasty... I made it to two of the communication talks in between all the Science. ...
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30 Dec 2020: Year-End Bloggy Wrap-Up
Meta: clip show · no comments... Icelandic Edition Most useful: Where Are All the Earth Science Bloggers? - though it could probably use another round of ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU One
Personal, Science: american geophysical union, conference blogging · 6 commentsWhy are all the interesting talks at 8 in the morning? And at the Marriott? Let's send the space physicists over there instead, or reserve it as punishment for people who can't have a technical conversation for more than 5 minutes that doesn't involve po ...
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21 Oct 2020: Friday Friday Friday
Whimsy: earthquake prediction, Friday random ten, search requests · no comments... (on the lessons learned from the 2020 San Francisco earthquake) last night. I was not; I was doing homework. I'm not cool. But ... great and glorious iTunes, will there be a major (M>6) earthquake on the Hayward fault before I finish grad school? The key. The ...
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14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 comments... that physicists consider - the effective viscosity of the Earth is of the order of 10^20 Pa s (Stacey 2020). Someone should show the ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... hippie progressive trying to become, say, a professor of earth science in their actual backyards. Mr. King, it's like the bumper ...
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9 Sep 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-N
Whimsy: co-op living, Friday random ten, Germany, Nutella, search requests, welfare · 4 comments... exploding bladder Astrological prediction for earthquake in ...
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15 Jul 2020: Attn: Skandinavisker
Personal: denmark, Scandinavia, trains, travelogue · no comments... and youth hostels? When it is nearly 30 (tredive) of your earth units outside, a breeze is most delig. Sealing shut the windows on the ...
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30 Jun 2020: And introducing in the pale-grey green corner, guest blogger #3
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... endeavour to keep the rocks warm as you caress the earth on your travels Yami ...
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25 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging, Atemporal Edition: Road Cuts on the 5
Science: driving, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 5 comments... between I-5 and CA-14 is a bad place to be during an earthquake. It's right smack on the Santa Susana Fault Zone, and has collapsed ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Beach Balls
Uncategorized: rock blogging · 6 comments... a rock, but in honor of finally being awake for an earthquake* I think it's time to try my hand at something a little closer to ... has just moved is key to bloviating about how some recent earthquake has pushed California that much closer to falling into the ocean ...
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16 Jun 2020: Garbage Day
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, classism, Dianne Feinstein, earthquakes, feminism, flag-burning, rape, welfare · 4 comments... About Geology, Dave Stevenson on the physics of earthquakes and tsunamis, which is good fun if and only if you've got a ... layman's nerdiness under your belt. But speaking of earthquakes, they're apparently planning a sequel to 10.5, with a plot no more ... of fancy scientists. But I can't wait to see the young earthers pile on to the idea of 150 million years' worth of plate tectonics ...
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: Earthquake!
Personal: earthquakes · 6 commentsOoh, I felt that one. Heard a car honk just after, wonder if it was related? The birds didn't seem to be at all upset by it, though. ...
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3 Jun 2020: Friday Random Nineteen
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments... war alien girls that are green and have sex with pictures earthquakes merits and demerits evil moon bird eats earth kid eyeballs dr. pepper attacked by bees - actually looking for ...
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27 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 comment... the age of 75. Measurements of the energy released by an earthquake are not, as a rule, photogenic. Seismic tomography - another place ...
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25 May 2020: I Blame the Garlic
Whimsy: dreams, garlic, volcanoes · no comments... abilities. As I finished eating, there was an earthquake, which induced a little nearby cinder cone to throw up a ...
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12 May 2020: Friday Random 15
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes, search requests · 7 comments... for pictures of tampons and wanting to know what on earth is up with fat-free half and half and unsatisfied with their current ...
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: Happy Juror Appreciation Week
Personal: jury duty, utter glee · 6 commentsI was on jury duty yesterday. Much to my bemusement, the jury pool waiting room was all decked out for Juror Appreciation Week - there were balloons, coffee'n'donuts, and a series of little activities and informative presentations. Since I was only called ...
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6 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Sedimentary Concretions
Science: Mars, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 commentsThe Earth Science Picture of the Day is often light on both "earth" and "science" (it is reliably daily, and almost always a picture) but ...
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4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments... that rich people's houses fall down all the time during earthquakes (the earth eats the rich!), as do poor people's tenement flats (dastardly evasion of ...
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18 Apr 2020: Reading Material
Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments... I love the theological implications of God creating the earth. At every stage, God blessed it and hallowed it and said that it was good ...
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: For Millennia, Google Has Spoken
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: essay contests, googlefu · 3 comments... next day. And the next day we went to the Moon and back to Earth, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and ...
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15 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Sand Boils
Science: liquefaction, rock blogging · 7 comments... of contacts between individual sand grains. During an earthquake, if the sand grains are loosely packed, this network is disrupted. ...
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5 Apr 2020: Only Terrorists Go to Canada
Politics: fascist police states, Homeland Stupidity, passports · 17 comments... page where you can enter your address in pencil. What on earth is the point of coding an address in an RFID chip on a document that ...
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30 Mar 2020: New Athletic Allegiances and the Advanced Study of Mud
Meta, Personal: academia, Announcements · 11 comments... UC Berkeley next fall for a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. Do not hesitate to fail to withold your ... jiggliness. Its squooshiness when jiggled: On Earth. On Mars. Beating civil engineers over the head: Sometimes ...
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23 Mar 2020: Cyclic Extinctions?
Science: data mining, mass extinctions, statistics · no comments... tonight. And somewhere in the chaos of multiple tabs of earth scientists I found a parade on which I would really like to pee: With surprising and mysterious regularity, life on Earth has flourished and vanished in cycles of mass extinction every 62 million ...
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: Where Are All the Earth Science Bloggers?
Links, Science: geoblogosphere · 31 comments... time to play a game! Where are all the earth science bloggers? Are geologists genetically inclined to dislike the ... physics and biology? The following are all the active earth science bloggers of which I am aware: Andrew Frederiksen - Seismology, earth science, and society Sabine's Garden Walter Kessinger - Industry ...
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18 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Bishop Tuff
Science: igneous rocks, rock blogging · 4 comments... understatement. This photo was taken 15 miles (25 of your Earth kilometers) away from the eruption; it contains no persons for scale, but ...
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5 Mar 2020: Science Friday on Saturday
Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments... visiting the oceanographers and marine geologists, not the earth science department as you might have supposed.) For those of you too lazy ...
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23 Feb 2020: Gender Blogrolls Quick Post
Meta: blogroll, gender · no comments... be very interested in a game of "where are all the earth science bloggers?" - but not today.) However, all the cool kids have ...
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17 Feb 2020: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments... Venusian and wants to date a Martian. She's from Earth, but thinks men are from Mars and will blast her with their phallus ray guns if she reveals herself as an Earthling spy never take her seriously if she fails to approximate a Venusian ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... to you and me: High-Speed Plate Tectonics and Young Earth Creationism. Yow! Before we indulge ourselves in pointless nitpicking, ... an important process by which heat is transferred in the Earth? Is convection occurring now? Has it occurred any time in the ... textbook he mentions is Press and Siever's Understanding Earth, which we happen to have handy (though it's the second edition, from ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... Ditto public library funding. Also there aren't any earthquakes. (link via the shiny new LA Times Addict, which in turn was off ...
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11 Jan 2020: Mmmm Rocket Fuel
Politics, Science: earthquakes, ground water, perchlorate, pollution · no comments... the water we've got. In other nerdy news, the Sumatran earthquake caused water to slosh around in wells in Virginia... and in Southern ...
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17 Dec 2020: Pink
Politics: cars, colors, gender · no comments... it had a diesel engine, this would be my new car. How on earth could I resist a pink convertible grease-powered jalopy with the ...
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20 Oct 2020: Fabulousness at the Beach
Links, Personal: cars, cubicle living, jalopies · no comments... but there's not much else for me to do. Last week was Earth Science Week! I missed it, too. But as my search requests remind me, ...
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15 Sep 2020: California Performance Review for Geologists
Politics: California politics, environmentalism, urban planning · no comments... Geophysicists - the BGG governs professional licensing for earth scientists; the SMGB represents the state's interest in geologic hazards, ...
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29 Aug 2020: Weekend Review
Personal: capitalism sucks, consumerism, dishware, grad school · 4 comments... of it as well; my "analyze an argument" argument was about earthquakes. Ha! I am so smart, SMRT! Now I'll go to grad school and feel ...
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17 Aug 2020: Political Gear Extravaganza
Politics: · no commentsI went down to the local Democratic headquarters last night, to purchase swag and scope out volunteer opportunities with the youth-oriented partisan institution. Actually joining the Young Dems would be an unseemly affront to my cultivated lefty-swing-vote ...
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13 Aug 2020: I Smell a Thesis
Science: · 1 comment... be an interesting thesis topic, it's got volcanoes and earthquakes and modeling and field work on nice islands and ...
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11 Aug 2020: Best Constitutional Amendment EVAR
Politics: · no comments... Conspiracy lives on, but here on the Federal Democratic Earth of the United States of America, there are terrorists trying to steal ...
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26 Jul 2020: Cruise to the Interior of the Earth!
Science: crackpots, hollow earth · 1 comment... remains of exotic animals thought to originate from Inner Earth. The validity of the hollow earth theory was explored and debunked, for the Nth time and for all, in my ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... discussion on Frogs and Ravens has morphed from earthquakes to water resources - which was at least partly my fault. Maybe ... don't know where these people are coming from or what on earth they could be thinking; they can't all be geologists hoping to cash in on ...
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11 Jun 2020: Water on Black Mesa
Politics: · 4 comments... is chock full of quotes about connections between the earth and the sky and our toes, which fit very well into the popular "Indian ...
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23 Apr 2020: Lazy RSS Roundup
Links: dreams · no comments... yucky! dog found! Last night I dreamed that there was an earthquake. Then I dreamed that it wasn't an earthquake, just Peter getting really cold and shivering to make the futon ...
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15 Apr 2020: Oh Boy an Earthquake!
Science: · 10 comments... trendy math: Keilis-Borok's team now predicts an earthquake of at least magnitude 6.4 by Sept. 5, 2020, in a region that ...
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2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 comments... without first re-evaluating our relationship with Mother Earth. And soup in the mail, fuckin ...
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25 Jan 2020: Sweet Potato Soup
Food: Convolvulaceae, mushrooms, recipes, soup, sweet potatoes, tomatoes · no comments... use some richer bass notes, and mushrooms are a pleasantly earthy possibility. Next time, I'll puree them with the sweet potatoes, rather ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 commentsWent out to Joshua Tree Friday night, and so the photoblog has been updated for the first time in months. Saturday, Peter and I went to investigate a dry lake - where "investigate a dry lake" actually meant "get the car stuck in sand three miles from an ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... as an educational gift to graduates-to-be in the earth and planetary sciences; the funding is not quite infinite, so we bought ...
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22 Jan 2020: La Loi de Qui?
Personal, Science: · 1 comment... coordinate system... ooops. *wave refraction in the earth and prisms and ...
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21 Jan 2020: Hmm
Meta: · 3 comments... no, that's PEEK-a-boo, not PICS-a-boo. Try again. eearth science: gabbro rock One more try. The best thing about Spiderman was ...
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2 Oct 2020: Questions
Personal: trivialities · 6 comments... sense? Will it make sense tomorrow after lecture? How on earth do the pre-college science education people get the most well-stocked ...
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11 Sep 2020: New Moon Over Kentucky
Science: moons, planetary science · 2 comments... the coolest thing to happen this year: Earth got a new moon - or else it's just another piece of space garbage, the ... enjoys a "special relationship" with the Earth - the kind of special relationship it can't tell its mother about - ...
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5 Sep 2020: Someone’s All Wet
Meta: · 2 comments... in from an IP address in Ohio: i like oceans So what on earth are you doing in Toledo? You obviously don't like oceans as much as, say, ...
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27 Aug 2020: Go Away
Personal: · no comments... me and shook her head. I hate when people do that. What on earth is wrong with a simple, apologetic shrug? Especially when your workplace ...
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27 Jun 2020: Immense Unlicensed Nuclear Reactor 4000 miles away
Links: guest posts · 1 comment... the Earth's magnetic field nuclear-powered? And how does magnetic pole reversal fit ...
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16 Jun 2020: The Odd Couple
Uncategorized: guest posts · 1 comment... to clean up in here." I look around and wonder what on earth she's talking about. Apparently it is filthy in here. Mind you, we did a ...
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10 Jun 2020: Sesquipedalianism
Meta: cheese, fan mail, guest posts · 5 comments... by thieves, immolated in a house fire or killed in an earthquake, cigarettes will do me in. Bless ...
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9 Jun 2020: My fault
Science: canned goods, death, earthquakes, guest posts, Hayward Fault, san andreas · 4 comments... may not encounter rocks much, but 'round here, the Earth does move. Last month there was a 5.2 80 miles away, enough to make the ... the thing most likely to kill me, though, and it's not an earthquake. Being hit by a car while biking. So how are you most likely to ...
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3 Apr 2020: Someone’s Hungry
Meta: · 1 comment... spinach lasagna or I'll blow out all the candles and make earthworm sounds ..! Ah. Right. If I think it's leftovers and it's not, then it's bait. Or something. What sounds does an earthworm make ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... text has a bouquet that is light and fruity, with some earthy undertones. It is ideal with dinner or as an apertif. Bon apetit! Only ...
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19 Feb 2020: Ping-Pong Earth
Personal: · no commentsYou should really see me: sitting cross-legged in a falling-apart arm chair, drawing on a ping-pong ball, holding it up now and then to squint, rub my free fingers past one another, and mutter no! thrust fault! I love waiting until the night before the ext ...
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30 Jan 2020: Thrust Faulting
Personal: diary, earthquakes · no comments... geophysicist that I am, I desperately look forward to earthquakes. Whenever I miss out on one it's like the Mole People are sitting ... happen while I blink, the bastards. Last night their earthquake was only about 25 miles away; just a 4.2, nothing exciting, but ...
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8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... kind of thing that brought me into geophysics. Mmm, deep earth structure and low-velocity zones at the core-mantle ...
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7 Dec 2020: Gravitas
Links, Science: gravity, mapping, New Madrid · no comments... of dense goop on the bottom of the crust. Now there are earthquakes because of it. To make your own gravity maps, use this. You'll ...
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6 Dec 2020: I Biblioteket
Science: disasters, libraries, licorice, serendipitous discoveries · no comments... may be damaged or destroyed by fighting and wars, or by earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. People, particularly the poorest, the ...
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28 Nov 2020: I’ll take your course schedule and…
Personal: Caltech, course scheduling · no comments... of continuum mechanics a prerequisite for Physics of the Earth's Interior - this was my advisor's fault, he'll be getting an earful when ...
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12 Oct 2020: Back in Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments... the middle, and one must carefully balance the mushroom's earthy brown flavors against its stringy texture to see where it fits. With a ...
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7 Oct 2020: Suckers!
Personal: government gravy trains, Sweden, the scientific lifestyle, utter glee · no comments... of my chosen career path - I mean, who other than the earth scientists can get government money to go snorkeling in the South ...
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24 Jul 2020: Dehydrated Agnostic
Personal: · no comments... 23, 2020 16:17 from EarthQuaker To know something is to hold it in the palm of your mind, to ...