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12 Jun 2020: Four Ways to Eat Black Locust Blossoms (and One Way Not to Bother)
Food: Amaryllidaceae, black locust, Brassicaceae, chives, edible flowers, Fabaceae, flowers, recipes, salad, soup · no comments... a food processor. I'm not sure the ginger added anything important; onion powder might've been better, but I didn't have any on ...
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11 May 2020: Car Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Trunk
Politics: bicycles, cars, lifestyles of the privileged minority, privilege · 4 comments... access to my mode of transportation is depicted as an important rite of passage. I can easily find movies in which lack of access to ...
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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... of gay energy on the water in the delta - which is an important source of drinking water for Southern California - have not been ...
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10 Mar 2020: Fruitilinear Perturbation Methods for Layered Meringue Spaces
Whimsy: meringue, pie, science parody · 5 comments... flavor convection. We synthesize piesmograms for several important endmember systems. The synthetic piesmograms display soft peaks that ...
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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... the earthquake is part of the equation is tremendously important. It is only after you account for the fact that seismic waves get ...
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27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation
Aimless: · 1 comment... results, and therefore it can be trusted. Making that all-important transition from "butt number" to "justified butt number" - I haven't ...
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22 Jan 2020: Flood Basalts
Aimless: · 3 comments... in the geologic record. This event is sometimes big and important, and sometimes seems a little arbitrary. Examples: Reversals of the ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... level introductory course: Something that introduces important foundational concepts and prepares you to apply basic principles to ...
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13 Jan 2020: Using Ecto’s Script Feature to Post Your Delicious Links
Meta: code, del.cio.us, ecto, perl · no comments... Support/ecto3/scripts). The .pl extension is important. Open Ecto. You should be able to run the script from Tools > ...
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6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery
Aimless: · 13 comments... are mutually exclusive. Whatever the case, it is vitally important that we uncover and vigorously enforce the correct social norms! The ...
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16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa
Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 comments... meringue. Step 4: Place it in the oven. It is very important that the cake and ice cream are entirely covered, with no gaps, ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... But really, pretending that bragging rights aren't important is just sour grapes from an ethicist whose readers do not share her ... don't just model good scientific practice - they're an important way for a teacher to give feedback about students' thought processes, ...
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9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 comments... from flowing through a fault zone, which means that it's important to understand how the gouge develops... but the role of heterogeneity ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... person to donate most gets first choice of rocks. This is important, because my collection is actually pretty small and crummy; do you ...
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1 Oct 2020: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2020
Aimless: · 3 comments... to help you help schools tackle the projects you think are important. They gather proposals from public school teachers, and handle all ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... n00bs. They are mostly focused on minerals that are "important" in the sense that they play significant roles in geological ... a mystery rock in their hands. So the minerals I think are important to be familiar with are those that are (1) visible and interesting in ...
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20 Aug 2020: The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 26 comments... that stirring is neither difficult, nor tremendously important. The crystals will be tiny no matter what. This method has the added ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... earthquakes would occur near the conclusion of every important talk. Other, regionally appropriate interruptions (terrorists or ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... geologist if you have a beard: Why are the portraits so important, and why am I obsessed with Grey Braid fashion? Because it asserts so ...
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20 May 2020: I have a Master’s degree… in Science!
Aimless: · 18 comments... will resume shortly. First, I must complete some very important experiments on the rheology of dense particle suspensions in a ...
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5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 comments... et events examples exception figure fluid gas historical important km kopf limit magnitude manga marzocchi mazzini mellors mud observed ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... inherited a certain amount of culture here) it's far more important to be original and thought-provoking than it is to be right**. You ... or badly-formulated or poorly-supported. **It's still important to be correct, but as long as we are clearly demarcating our facts ...
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2 Apr 2020: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 commentsOne of the things I love about geology is the jargon. After all, what could possibly be more fun than laying down "clayey" or "vug" on a triple word score and being able to say that yes, it is too a word? Wait, don't answer that one. Instead, let me give ...
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4 Mar 2020: Oops! I’m Perjured Again
Aimless: · 7 comments... other things, that I do not consider the Constitution as important as human life and will not bear arms against its enemies. But I ...
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25 Feb 2020: Does This Rheometer Make Me Look Fat?
Aimless: rheology · 6 comments... Are our experiments so thin that we're missing some important 3D structures? Hmm. Reference Voltz C, Nitschke M, Heymann L, and ...
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14 Feb 2020: Love Songs for Geoscientists
Aimless: · 18 commentsI am frequently earwormed by the alt-country band Uncle Tupelo's song New Madrid, in which the narrator begs an intraplate seismic zone to somehow restore his lost love: Come on do what you did Roll me under New Madrid Shake my baby and please bring her ba ...
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1 Feb 2020: We Can Have a New Geological Epoch If We Want
Aimless: · 21 comments... we try to align its divisions with what we think are important changes to the character of rocks and fossils, and we want to be ...
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22 Dec 2020: Happy Solstice
Links: blog carnivals, Christmas, pie, silly putty · 8 comments... to bribe me into deciding in your favor on this very important, weighty issue (NB: I take PayPal). Look for an official theme ...
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2 Nov 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Feyerabend
Science, Whimsy: philosophy of science, unprofessional boundaries · 2 comments... misleading propaganda -- "you are now going to do the most important thing that man has invented," but honestly (not in the "professional" ...
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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... really means, “Well, that was really unimportant. Stop getting hung up on the details.” In my more rational, or ... us not only how it got there, but why its presence is important: [I]t is one thing to imagine that you are unprejudiced, but it is ...
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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... shifts around, it creates frequent earthquakes. Most importantly, though, there are hot springs. Late Holocene anthropogenic ...
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3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments... you tell yourself about what you are doing, and why it is important? What about the gender of the person you are talking to or thinking ...
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25 Sep 2020: Geek Ink
Science, Whimsy: diffusion, equations, tattoos · 5 comments... big dork. But of course, there are some important dorky questions to answer first, one of which is detailed in a chat log below the cut. It also brings up an important gender issue. Okay, fine, I'm just posting chat logs because I ...
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23 Sep 2020: I Need Idiotproofing
Personal, Science: grad school, software · 3 comments... script right away. The process of playing with data is important for figuring out what's actually going on, and the process of playing with figures is an important part of good graphic design. And once you've finally gotten it the ...
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1 Jul 2020: Leaving the Ivory Tower
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: academia, book reviews, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa · 3 comments... aid. Since most graduate programs leave an awful lot of important knowledge out of their official communications (e.g., what does it ...
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28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage
Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment... particular chair in which Darwin wrote his book really as important as the inspiration for his ideas? Granted, the proposed site includes ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 comments... pony dressed in ribbons, or friends who can share a large, important slice of our lives. If we can't even talk about what we want, how are ...
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3 Apr 2020: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments... that was not complete garbage, because she works in an important subfield and has potential. (In case you are curious, the full ...
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13 Mar 2020: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof
Politics, Science: science in pop culture, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · 9 comments... that science is something that acts on culture, and is important to culture, but is not a part of culture - like rain, or the location ...
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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... the public. That's all well and good, but it ducks an important question: What is the message? Fund my research or San Francisco gets ... a silly rubric to use when determining what we think is important for the lay public to understand. Much better to consider what people ...
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22 Jan 2020: Sediment Transport by Splashing
Science: erosion, gardening, geomorphology, rain, science is pretty · 4 comments... mulch. But I never thought about splashing as an important mechanism of erosion. Cue the squealy foreshadowing violins here, ...
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6 Jan 2020: Happy Belated Winter
Links: Wikipedia · 7 comments... this thing still on? I need to ask you all something very important: What compels people to add "the subject of this entry was ...
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26 Nov 2020: Margarita Meringue Pie
Food: citrus, meringue, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 1 commentIt wasn't 3D, but my pie was a success anyway. The margarita pie, anyway - no comment on the pomegranate meringue, I didn't get enough juice out of the pomes I bought to call it a fair trial. Next time, I'll just buy the straight-up juice. The Meyer lemon ...
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24 Oct 2020: Hawaii, the New York Times, and Triggered Seismicity
Science: earthquakes, Hawaii, lazy journalism · 9 comments... stress) are far, far, far too small to plausibly be important; they are much smaller than the stress changes observed as the ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... people have been represented by two separate yet equally important groups." Young women's fashions have never been concerned with where ... clean and sober. - and Ringo Starr's status was last an important piece of pop culture in what year, again? Professional athletes have ...
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8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links
Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments... desire and social response the distinction becomes important. If identity is a claim about my interactions with the world, ... when making statements about racial identity, it is important to be clear about what "identity" actually means. I've done most ...
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4 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan
Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 comments... Nature, Tokano et al. point out that drizzle is likely an important, stable feature of Titan's meteorology. So how about it, iTunes? ...
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3 Aug 2020: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way
Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments... says "I don't think your conversation about sexism is as important as my ideas about our spicy gendered brains" or "I am too stupid to ...
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2 Aug 2020: Shorter Responses to Ben Barres
Politics: academia, gender, sexism, snark, women in science · 12 comments... face of discrimination, but not all discrimination; it's important to just ignore most of ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... be accurately described by the label Christian?" is the important question to consider here. Though but but, I'm more disturbed by ...
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27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril
Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 commentsPerhaps Kyso Kisaen will be a bloggy guide and muse through the Rite of Femminess otherwise known as getting hitched; she seems to have her priorities straight: I already know shit like "less booze = less money" or "borrow stuff or make it, teehee!" Any ...
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23 Jun 2020: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache
Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments... wrote a perl script to read through the html, pull out the important bits, and save them in Movable Type's import/export format. This was ...
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7 Jun 2020: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics
Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... all prepared about how clean running water is clearly more important than sex, because we put up with shit from plumbers that we would ...
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24 Apr 2020: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too
Politics, Science: academia, mentoring, science studies · no comments... forget, d'oh! Do contrarians make bad scientists? - it's important not to confuse contrarianism as in "likes to advocate for minority ...
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29 Mar 2020: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept
Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments... usually attracts and holds my attention. The message is important, but I'll eventually get frustrated and stop reading a blog if the ... incentive to link. Most bloggers think they have something important to say, after all, or they wouldn't being doing it in the first ...
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13 Mar 2020: The Rhetoric of Patriarchy
Human Fuzzies, Politics: feminism, patriarchy, rhetorical tactics, words · no comments... talking about what words mean, I think it's most important to look at how they're used in the wild. And when we're talking about ...
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20 Feb 2020: Little History, Big History
Science: Big History, Earth history, socks · 15 comments... So here are some events I think are profound and crazy important, with only weensy explanations (it's approaching bedtime): My ...
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14 Feb 2020: You Say Patriarchy, I Say Pahtriarchy
Politics: feminisms, patriarchy, rhetorical nit-picking · 4 comments... the case for most or all of the known examples. But it is important -- even in the face of a depressing history -- to maintain a ...
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12 Feb 2020: The Wages of Procrastination
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Appalachian death polka, domesticity · 3 comments... and you shoulda done it before the party. Fabulously important update! The culprit was a housemate, not a guest, and even better, ...
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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... in particular as regards unconformities, will be important - and iTunes claims that others are interested in the question ("En ...
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30 Dec 2020: Year-End Bloggy Wrap-Up
Meta: clip show · no comments... that social, cultural, and economic contexts are really important, and that it's improper to speak of someone's "choice" as if its ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... which Pavese gets into in more detail. But I think more importantly there are socioeconomics at play. My relationship to the words "day ...
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19 Dec 2020: Happy Whatever
Politics: atheism, Christmas, holidays, religion, secularism, thanksgiving · 6 comments... and distinct entities. Also, my officemate made the important point that if we do successfully reconstruct Christmas as a secular ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... bedpans than allow a stinky hippie progressive to hold the important position of That One Chick a Distant Post Office is Named After, I ...
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21 Sep 2020: Balancing Work and Family: Just Use Your Penis
Politics: lazy journalism, lifestyles of the privileged minority, sexism, work vs. family · 2 comments... function as hat racks, for one thing. Everyone knows how important this is, so there's really no sense interviewing young men to see how ...
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16 Sep 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Portland Cement
Science: cement, rock blogging · 5 comments... crap thrown in for bulk - mostly sand and gravel. But it's important to use the right kind of sand and gravel, because if you use the ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... just like Hawaii (it does! Modulo vegetation and, more importantly, glaciers, one island of overlapped basalt flows looks just like ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... gnome that lives in my laptop. So! Onward! The Covering (important influences around the question or current situation): The Pogues - ... - Glenglass The Root (past events that have played an important role in bringing about the current situation): Dust Rhinos - Hills of ...
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18 May 2020: Defining Feminism: Once More, with Feeling
Politics: feminism, feminisms, marriage, peer pressure · 7 comments... that social, cultural, and economic contexts are really important, and that it's improper to speak of someone's "choice" as if its ...
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4 May 2020: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments... my body, of being told that my bodily integrity is not important. If abortion is outlawed, I must give up control of what happens to ...
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27 Apr 2020: H.R. 902, Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2020
Politics: Congressional shenanigans, money · 7 comments... in important Congressional business, 6 (count 'em, SIX) Representatives voted ...
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26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments... be as wrong for me as it was for Ratzinger. It's far more important, really, than my saying that it's wrong to take pleasure in other ... a discussion about ginormous trilobites probes the important issue of whether or not various extinct arthropods would've been ...
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18 Apr 2020: Reading Material
Links: anger, environmentalism, gender, kittens, motherhood, pharmacists, theology · 12 comments... control already. Your comments and concerns are so very important to us, that we responded to your questions about our policies with an ...
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4 Apr 2020: Links to Daylight’s Rescue
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments... know enough about such wonky shit to judge yet and more importantly (2) what kind of fool trusts the Bush administration to act in good ... a boycott against Sinclair Communications, and can play an important role in pushing back against efforts to destroy Social Security, then ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... cater to my hurt feelings, because my alligience is more important than their anger. An exaggeration, of course. As everyone ... I have conflicted feelings about both those things. It's important to legitimize others' anger, and to be considerate when expressing ...
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3 Mar 2020: Ugh Zog
Meta, Personal: cubicle living, WordPress · 4 comments... paragraphs and straight quotes into curly quotes and most importantly, double-hyphens into n-dashes - is the shittiest thing EVAR. It ...
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27 Feb 2020: More WordPress Babbling
Meta: quizzes · no comments... class selector. Without declaring my googleju rule to be !important, it was dead in the water. I don't like to use !important - it's poor form. So I rewrote the stylesheet to make the #content ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... it's hard for me to say which of these things is most important. I'd like to round this out with a link to something funny, but I ...
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14 Feb 2020: Fun with Creationist Plate Tectonics
Science: debunking, plate tectonics, young earthers · 11 comments... geologists to debate some key questions: Is convection an important process by which heat is transferred in the Earth? Is convection ... geologists to debate some key questions: Is convection an important process by which heat is transferred within the Earth? Is convection ...
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1 Feb 2020: Ownership Society
Personal: capitalism sucks, money, public radio · 7 comments... been listening to KCRW today, and more importantly to their fund drive. The last pitch they delivered was to "take ...
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10 Nov 2020: Suckers for Science in the Suburbs
Politics: California ballot propositions, embryonic stem cells, genetic engineering, health care, scientific illiteracy, stem cell research · 5 comments... and scientific illiteracy is to miss something very, very important. Imagine you live in a nice suburb, and you drive a very large, ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... to go through an irritating "opt-out" process to retain important parts of their privacy, beyond what is needed to process them through ... system. I'm not sure if DNA is particularly more important than fingerprints or not; in theory it could be, in practice I'm not ...
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17 Sep 2020: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments... asked, "sorry, I came late to class. Did I miss anything important?" And it seems to me that this kind of thing happens a lot more to ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... was negligible in light of the harms to the far more important goal of weighting all votes equally). I kind of sniffed around this ...
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1 Aug 2020: Pimp Mah Blawg!
Meta: blogtinkery · 1 comment... Into Accessibility, make sure I haven't forgotten anything important. Con readers with crap old browsers into checking for elegant ...
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25 Jul 2020: Education Reform Blah Blah
Politics: · 2 comments... test that doesn't require half the skills I think are important. We need to recognize that we're collectively unwilling to pay ...
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21 Jul 2020: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the “In Bed” Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... education: roughly one-third of my score, which is somehow important to admissions committees, depends on my analytical writing abilities ...
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25 Jun 2020: Note to the California Legislature: Please Kill More Kitties
Politics: · no comments... cuts at some level. There's a million zillion things more important than food for feral dogs. I hate it when people place animal ... animals. At the end of the day, people are more important than pets. If repealing the Hayden Act would allow cities and ...
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18 Jun 2020: John Ashcroft Hearts Democracy So Much
Politics: · no comments... with a basic civics lesson: Voters -- ultimately the most important source of pressure on democratic politicians -- can petition their ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... greater than the annual recharge to the basin. It's important to separate out unsustainable ground water mining from the ... in on lucrative water management crises, can they? It's an important question, because even though I'm not quite sure how much the ...
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28 Apr 2020: Coolant Pixies
Personal: · 5 comments... the car was ready for the junkyard made me realize a very important and basic fact: I love shitty cars. I love the feeling of continually ...
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25 Mar 2020: Pasadena: My Neighbors Have Nice Flowers
Human Fuzzies: intellectual elitism, Pasadena, urban planning, urban sprawl · 1 comment... I deplore suburban sprawl, I think Amy is on to something important in her final paragraph: What makes a Southern California city like ... in a way that Central Park will never be. Oh, and it's important to give some respect to the cactuses in the desert garden. They are ...
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11 Dec 2020: Peer Review II
Politics, Science: peer review · no comments... have the perspective necessary to see which criticisms are important and which are absurd. Not so great if you're Senator Joe Blow who ...
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18 Oct 2020: Joe Jonah Euclid
Human Fuzzies: · 5 comments... preserved, formatting is attempted. It seems to speak to important issues of our time, as well as the tail end of the dot-com boom when ...
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2 Aug 2020: Housing Markets
Personal, Politics: apartment hunting, capitalism sucks, hey lazyweb, Los Angeles · 3 comments... economists and crazy free-market cultists, it's not important who appears to pay. But I've got a bad feeling about this model; not ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... not for more than three months at a time, and this is an important thing. Grad school is not a place for wafflers trying to explore ...
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23 Jun 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · no comments... but this is just silly. Shouldn't I be worrying about more important things? Like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Or that bit about me ...
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7 May 2020: Vacuuming for Losers
Personal, Whimsy: cleaning, howtos, vacuums · 2 comments... you probably won't need them again, ever. Unless they're important tax documents that the IRS will kill you for chucking. Stack the ...
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2 May 2020: Master of Nothing
Aimless: · no comments... you'd get to hand briefcases full of cash money and important documents to Science's underworld contacts. But as a Bachelor, I'll ...
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20 Apr 2020: Shiny! Curvaceous!
Links: · no comments... - blah blah private manned space flight blah blah. The important things are the pictures. This thing is curved and bubbly, with lots ...
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9 Feb 2020: Theme of Bugs
Personal: · 4 comments... spot between the eyes, bright pink, but that was not so important as the fact that the eyes were fluorescent green. And they say ...
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15 Nov 2020: Committee Committee
Personal, Politics: bureaucracy, Caltech · 1 comment... out free homework extensions like candy if you're doing Important Committee Work. Also, I need a machine that chews my cud for me, ...
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8 Nov 2020: Mmmeat
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... night. Quite clearly it's been long enough for several important meat-digesting strains of E. coli to have given up and left, seeking ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... owned—that make you feel like you're doing something important when really you're just singing along to Norwegian pop songs. If my ...
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28 Sep 2020: Phone Books
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments... towards telephones, and besides, the internet has all the important phone numbers anyway. However, if you actually need a phone ...
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21 Aug 2020: Old Forgotten Someones
Meta: · no comments... I've neglected some people, when they're trying to give me important advice, too: Remember darling that you can never have too many ...
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25 Jun 2020: Important News
Aimless: · 2 commentsMore fun email from Physical Plant: This morning at approximately 6:15 a.m. the City of Pasadena suffered a temporary power failure of less than a second. The glitch was caused by a crow that flew into a 17 KV power feeder. That'll teach 'em to wake me ...
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30 May 2020: Someone Wants Naked Sorority Frolicking
Whimsy: fan mail, search requests · 3 comments... a flood of Googliciousness. Meanwhile, there are more important things at stake: Which wire should I cut? The red one or the blue ...
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9 May 2020: Haiku Found While Studying for an Exam in Evolutionary Psychology
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... is at least temporally expected to treat kinship as most important in determining that when EDD detects eye-like stimuli it fixates on ...
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4 Apr 2020: and speaking of parody…
Links: Internet doodads, superheroes · no comments... introduces me to a couple of important figures: He's an otherworldly arachnophobic Green Beret in drag. ...
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9 Mar 2020: Love That Love Dart
Links, Science, Whimsy: · 4 comments... door. And I'm here to talk to you about snail sex. The important things to consider here are as follows: Snails are hermaphrodites. ...
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20 Feb 2020: Lonely Thrust Faults
Personal: · no comments... three metric tons of algebra to find that I'm wrong. More importantly, though, I stop assuming that I'm the only one who doesn't ...
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4 Feb 2020: drool… bid… drool
Links: menstruation, religion, robots · 1 comment... step 9: Bang at the new shell you made, this is very, very important to make it fit. Avoid sharp edges, we don't want to mess with that ...
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29 Jan 2020: Coffee
Human Fuzzies: Astrid Lindgren, coffee, inner child, pippi longstocking · no comments... Scandinavian heritage that they are), but this is not important. What is important is that Pippi Longstocking drinks coffee. This has very little to do ...
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27 Jan 2020: My Boots Keep Me
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... is an important accessory to college life, and that is the Boy Whose Sister Makes ...
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26 Jan 2020: Friday Five Four
Whimsy: · no commentsWhen other people answer these questions, I almost never read their answers, even if I normally hang slobbering and twitching off their every blogg'ed word. For some reason, this week I felt like joining in, and writing something that my eyes will automati ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... shit is just not enough anymore. Oh well; there are more important things in life, I guess. Which of course brings me to porn... I am ...
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6 Dec 2020: I Biblioteket
Science: disasters, libraries, licorice, serendipitous discoveries · no comments... the eldest, and the youngest, may die in disasters. Important information brought to you by the Journal of Disaster ...
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30 Nov 2020: delicious and nutritious
Politics: activism, queerness, Salvation Army · no comments... and tired of faith-based charities whose faith condemns important parts of your life? Then say so with these delightful little queer ...
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29 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee – part II
Human Fuzzies: liberal guilt, tourism · no comments... got an awful lot of angst ahead of me. And after all, the important thing isn't how you communicate, it's that you communicate at all, ... manage. Eh. There's more to whinge, but none of it's important, and I should really go do my Danish homework. Undskyld, kan du sige ...
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15 Oct 2020: I don’t know if you’ve
Politics: · no comments... 40-50 years," as that seems to be the time scale for new, important buildings going up. In the case of airport security, major changes ...
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: No More Mr. Nipple
Whimsy: nipples, wtf · no comments... #3: Sex Ed You see, kids, communication is important in any relationship. I had a girlfriend once who was quite, ah, ...
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7 Oct 2020: Suckers!
Personal: government gravy trains, Sweden, the scientific lifestyle, utter glee · no comments... a good bridge from which to test instruments and do other Important Research. Haha! This has all convinced me of the unassailable ...
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13 Sep 2020: justice
Politics: · no comments... away some of the sting of powerlessness, and isn't that important, too? Well, not really, no, it's not. Not in the grand scheme of ... my last post on america-go-boom. I've had my release, the important things have all been said, it's time to yield the floor to those with ...
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9 Sep 2020: verbal thinker
Personal: · no comments... every bit I cut out I wonder if I've just lost something important (my poems are always whittled down, never built up, and I have ...
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4 Sep 2020: Needle in the Groove
Human Fuzzies: · no commentsFor once, I'm on the right side of the Atlantic Ocean publishing delay / this was just lying on the shelf / I was reeling / sexy paperback with a cover that smells like plastic / feels like silk / you know how it is / I had forgotten. Talk about style en ...
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: No more ranting
Aimless: · no comments... when you can't read it. It's so shiny that it must be important, and I know it's talking about money... but what is it really ...
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3 Sep 2020: it almost makes sense…
Meta, Personal: · no comments... half in Danish. It was actually rather exciting: based on important key words like "Hubble" "banded iron formations" and "stromatolites," ...
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30 Aug 2020: Roskilde
Personal: · no comments... carved, and obviously marked the graves of some very important people who were probably quite excited at the thought of being ...