Search Results: science
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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... Shlomo Benizri and American preacher Pat Robertson - science has advanced beyond the simple "God does it" explanations most commonly ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... adjunct fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture! My role will be to expand the Institute's existing ...
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25 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists? Part II
Human Fuzzies, Science: disciplinary boundaries, professional licensing, Washington · 14 commentsThe question of whether or not I am a geologist is not just an amusing exercise in academic politics. In Washington, as in most U.S. states, geology is a regulated profession; guidelines for who can and cannot call themselves a geologist in a professional ...
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24 Mar 2020: Are Geophysicists Geologists?
Science: disciplinary boundaries, geology, geophysics, scientific culture · 13 comments... a B.S. in geophysics and an M.S. in earth and planetary science with a funky geophysics/geohydrology emphasis. I took some intro ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 commentsOn Monday, airline passengers were the first to observe the eruption of the just-barely-above-the-water volcano that forms the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai, in Tonga. Three days later, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurred on the Tonga trench. ...
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19 Mar 2020: The Parable of the Messy Map
Human Fuzzies: cartography, graphic design · 5 commentsMy job, for most of the past six weeks, has been to align cryptic old maps with existing digital data, so that points labeled in small, blurry fonts can be entered into a database. I am not going to show actual screenshots of my work - even if I gave away ...
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17 Mar 2020: “Temblor”
Human Fuzzies, Science: earthquakes, synonyms, temblors · 23 comments... you get a chance to say "temblor"? She felt impressive and sciencey. I have been hanging around with seismologists for some time now, ...
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14 Mar 2020: Blackberry Meringue Pie with Orange Bitters and Almond Crust
Food: blackberries, meringue, pie, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 commentI don't have a lemon tree in the backyard, and springtime has only just reached the frigid northlands, but I do have a bit of Seattle summer tucked away in the back of my freezer. Pick some slightly underripe blackberries for this one, so it's as tart a ...
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: Beer Meringue Pie
Food: beer, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 commentsI have had many terrible ideas for pie in my life - durian pie, anyone? And I expected this to be one of the worst. Then again, I've also had some Guinness ice cream that was absolutely fantastic; it should be possible to replicate that experience in a pi ...
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: Guinness Lamb Pie
Food: beer, lamb, pie, recipes · 6 commentsThis one's for Wilkins; it's a Pi Day / St. Patrick's Day twofer. Ingredients 1 lb. stew lamb 1 onion A few tbsp diced tomatoes (whatever was left in the can you used for pasta the other night) 1 clove garlic 6-8 ice cubes of broth - I make broth ...
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11 Mar 2020: Ternary Phase Diagram for Cracker-Crumb Crusts
Food: graham cracker crust, phase diagrams, pie, pie charts · 5 comments... But that doesn't mean it is somehow illegitimate or unsciencey! See, look at all this science: In addition to being simpler to prepare, the graham cracker ...
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9 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: blog carnivals, hydrology, resumes, sexual harassment, Wikipedia · 1 comment... are now open. Quick, nominate all the fantastic science posts you've read in the past couple months before you forget ... typos, then send it. No one cares about the font. Casual science says so! Honeybells are for eating -- Using oranges to measure stream ... and a suggestion for a 2-minute women in science Internet activism task, below the fold. The first Diversity in ...
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8 Mar 2020: Kiwi Lime Pie (with Bonus Cocktail)
Food: Actinidiaceae, cocktails, kiwi, pie, recipes, Rutaceae · 13 comments... some kiwis and throwing them into a mojito pie for the ScienceBlogs Pi Day contest, I can't say I'm any better than a bartender ...
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28 Feb 2020: Pre-Pie Contest Pie Poll
Whimsy: contests, fun poll, pie · 3 commentsScienceblogs is planning a pie contest for Pi Day, March 14. I am waiting for clarification ...
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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... for the sake of argument the value of the basic science that always results from the data collected during routine monitoring - ...
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: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: diy, google earth, Links · no comments... Bacon Story -- How science can make even bacon disgusting. Building a Google Earth Geology Layer ... Extraction -- Haunting photographs of modern industry. Geoscience-Related Investments in the Stimulus Package -- Where is the zillion ...
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19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 commentsFollowing the Royal Mail's release of some lovely new Darwin stamps, a few of us got to Twittering over lunch yesterday about the lack of geologists on this year's release of American scientist stamps. (What's that? You have no idea what Twittering i ...
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17 Feb 2020: Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Meta: · 6 comments... class to engineers and I want to introduce them to science blogging. I'm planning to have them write brief essays about classic science papers (similar to the Beginnings of Immunofluoresence), and then post ...
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11 Feb 2020: An Open Letter to the Environmental Geologists of the Past
Human Fuzzies, Science: cartography, environmental consulting · 11 commentsDear Environmental Geologists, Engineers, and Technical Illustrators of 20 Years Ago: Please remember that the real audience for your work - the mind-numbingly detailed technical reports over which you have slaved many hours - is not the board of petty ...
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5 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 3 comments... to the Big Top -- Spaaaaace! New carnival! Diversity in Science -- For the first edition, profile someone interesting and/or ...
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30 Jan 2020: 2020 Flood Deposits and the Johnson County Conservation Bond
Science: floods, hydrology, Iowa, unfinished drafts · no comments... forest and 2-4 mm/day for corn and grass: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/202020201/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Infiltration ...
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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 commentsOne of my New Year's blogolutions was to clear out my to-blog folder, and bring closure to my unfinished drafts by simply posting them as-is. This is one of those drafts. Disorganized paragraphs, unfinished sentences, and general incoherence enhance the na ...
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28 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 4 commentsREMINDER: Accretionary Wedge posts due this Friday -- The theme is unhinged speculation about the future Earth. Calculus: The Musical! -- The concept may or may not be more charming than the execution. Sand Won't Save You This Time -- Mmm, ClF3. Plausibly ...
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27 Jan 2020: Academic Citation
Aimless: · 1 comment... of teeth over various issues related to the actual science - is proofreading the bibliography. I use BibDesk for my ...
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26 Jan 2020: Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Meta: · 16 comments... addition to helping judge this year's Open Laboratory science blogging anthology, I'm also the production editor (i.e., typesetting ... pieces are either about biology, or professional "life in science" stuff. Geology is represented this year by Kim's piece and my own, and ...
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23 Jan 2020: Cookbooks with Science
Food, Science: book reviews, cookbooks, cooking, inverse methods, pie · 5 comments... the ones that have taught me to bake pie. The ones with science. My staple meringue pie recipe comes from The New Best Recipe. The ... not cookbooks at all. I reviewed the light version in The Science of Deliciousness, but the heavy version (which I also do not own, and ...
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22 Jan 2020: Flood Basalts
Aimless: · 3 comments... that the dinosaurs were Wignall 2020 Jinet Aut Science 2020/2020 Cortillot and Renne ...
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21 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 commentThe science of espresso, with a dash of geology -- Darcy's law! Four Stone Hearth ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... checked my watch, and apparently it's time for another science blogging meta wankfest! This time, Blake Stacey is complaining that we don't teach science with our blogs: My thesis is that it's not yet possible to get a ...
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15 Jan 2020: Manhattan Fault Line
Aimless: · 3 commentsOne of my New Year's blogolutions was to clear out my to-blog folder, and bring closure to my unfinished drafts by simply posting them as-is. This is one of those drafts. Disorganized paragraphs, unfinished sentences, and general incoherence enhance the na ...
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14 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 commentI finally fixed up a semi-automatic link-posting script that fits my needs - if you're interested in the gory details, or using the script yourself, see my post on the B-Sides. Enjoy all the backlogged links! Call for Submissions: Carnival of the Arid -- ...
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13 Jan 2020: Have We Really Reached “Peak Water”?
Aimless: · 12 commentsOne of my New Year's blogolutions was to clear out my to-blog folder, and bring closure to my unfinished drafts by simply posting them as-is. This is one of those drafts. Disorganized paragraphs, unfinished sentences, and general incoherence enhance the na ...
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9 Jan 2020: ScienceBlogs Down Today
Meta: · no comments... a note: ScienceBlogs will be doing some system upgrades this weekend. The site will ...
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8 Jan 2020: How to Fight Global Warming at Night with your Fists
Politics, Science: climate change, environmentalism, sustainability, unfinished drafts · 6 commentsOne of my New Year's blogolutions was to clear out my to-blog folder, and bring closure to my unfinished drafts by simply posting them as-is. This is one of those drafts. Disorganized paragraphs, unfinished sentences, and general incoherence enhance the na ...
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7 Jan 2020: Volcano Geodesy 101
Aimless: · 6 commentsRob R. asks: I've been following along with the recent happenings at Yellowstone (that is, as best as I can as a layman) but haven't seen that site [data from the Yellowstone GPS network] before. Could you explain (or link to) what I'm seeing there and w ...
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6 Jan 2020: High Femme and Geekery
Aimless: · 13 comments... flaws or defects. Draft date: June 24, 2020 The women-in-science-osphere has been trying to figure out what to make of this Newsweek ... displaying gender-normative behaviors like makeup. Fairer Science has a summary of reactions. Perhaps I have missed the many teams of ...
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4 Jan 2020: 2020 Blogolutions
Meta: · 4 comments... of February will mark the first anniversary of my move to ScienceBlogs, so I figure I have a whole month in which to be self-indulgent ...
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24 Dec 2020: Happy Twinkletree, Joyous Monkey
Aimless: · 3 commentsIf the sun came out, all the trees would be twinkling with ice. Seattle has the snow chaos. It's like one of those colds that never quite goes away, except that instead of snot, the city's nose is dripping slush and ice. My neighborhood is tucked in behin ...
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18 Dec 2020: California is Safe?
Aimless: · 10 commentsAccording to a study of deaths from natural hazard "events"* across the U.S., earthquakes, volcanoes, and other spectacular geophysical hazards are much less deadly than common weather events like heat waves, floods, and thunderstorms. The study was publis ...
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16 Dec 2020: Red Bean Xenoliths Janessa
Food, Science: baked Alaska, desserts, failed experiments, lava, meringue, recipes · 6 commentsBaked Alaska is a highly technical dessert. Its success requires a firm and pliable meringue, a moist and springy sponge cake, deft assembly work, and the time-dependent heat equation. The final product is tasty enough, but it is usually meant primarily as ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 commentsHey, geobloggers: If you're going to AGU, will you tell us what you hear that is new and different? PLEEZ? Emily Lackdawilla at the Planetary Society Blog can't make it to all the sessions she wants to see and is hoping to swap notes about Enceladus: I de ...
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11 Dec 2020: An Open Letter to the Science Blogosphere
Meta: · 10 comments... Science Bloggers (Self, You Too): Stop burying your leads. Ledes. Leads. ... whole bunch of submissions for this year's Open Laboratory science blogging anthology. Run-on sentences of the form "I was reading ...
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4 Nov 2020: Evelyn Julia Brumm, Rest in Peace
Aimless: · 8 commentsMy grandmother died early this morning after a short battle with cancer. She was 85. This is not a proper eulogy; those are hard to write. However. Grandma voted by absentee ballot early last week, before the morphine took over. If she managed to vote, ...
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27 Oct 2020: Where on (Google) Earth? #152
Aimless: · 10 comments... to find one again - for the first time since I moved to ScienceBlogs! - and I think it's time to start correcting this historical ...
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26 Oct 2020: Introducing Thomas M. Rock
Aimless: · 1 commentSo far, Thomas M. is the only one to take advantage of my Donors Choose fundraising gimmicks. So, this rose quartz cobble, which I picked up while hiking in the hills near Santa Fe, shall henceforth be known as Thomas. When you find something so well-rou ...
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21 Oct 2020: Geopuzzle: Beach Detectives
Aimless: · 14 commentsSomeone stole 500 truckloads of sand from a beach on the north shore of Jamaica. Police are using "forensic tests" on other beaches on the island to identify the thief; I'm guessing this involves a geologist looking at sand in a microscope. This page has ...
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20 Oct 2020: Coffee Bean Bridging
Aimless: · 11 commentsMy coffee grinder sometimes pauses in its labors, and makes a high-pitched whining noise that is nigh unbearable to the uncaffeinated ear. The noise happens because even though there are plenty of beans in the hopper, they've managed to arrange themselves ...
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15 Oct 2020: Oh Look, Links
Links: · 2 comments... free subscriptions to Seed magazine or 1 of ~15 pieces of ScienceBlogs schwag - mugs, laptop covers, and USB drives. At the end of the ... iPod Touch. Right now, only 160 people have donated to the ScienceBlogs challenge (and we're beating the mommy bloggers! Yeah!) so your ...
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10 Oct 2020: What Donors Should Choose
Aimless: · 2 comments... Challenge. However, Janet has posted a list of individual ScienceBloggers' incentives here. Donating to another Scibling's challenge ... Most Heartbreaking Proposal: Students Can't Learn Science Without Paper. One of the many hard parts about being a teacher in a ...
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9 Oct 2020: Papers I Haven’t Been Reading Lately
Aimless: · 3 comments... case study from north-eastern Kansas Earth and Planetary Science Letters DOI: 10.2020/j.epsl.2020.08.006 Microbial communities in ...
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8 Oct 2020: Donors Choose Update: Prizes!
Meta: · 4 comments... be aware, Green Gabbro is one of the smallest blogs on the ScienceBlogs network. But on the challenge leaderboard tonight, I'm just two donors behind a first place tie between Drug Monkey, Science Women, and Uncertain Principles. These blogs all get at least triple my ...
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6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!
Aimless: · 11 commentsA week ago, the USGS updated its official estimates of U.S. geothermal energy resources for the first time in over 30 years. During the past three decades, we've made significant progress on technology to exploit geothermal energy in areas where there's pl ...
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1 Oct 2020: In Which I Want Your Money: Donors Choose Challenge 2020
Aimless: · 3 comments... Budget cuts and the No Child Left Behind Act mean that science is getting squeezed out of elementary school classrooms. Teachers know that their students love science, and are determined to keep them engaged, but they don't have the ...
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27 Sep 2020: Reminder: Seattle Millionth Comment Party Today
Meta: · 3 comments... are showing up, and later on, a few folks from the Pacific Science Center. Meet lots of people who care about science and science education, and drink beer (or orange juice, you know, if ...
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26 Sep 2020: What Planet is my Clafoutis From?
Aimless: · 12 commentsLike so many moments of culinary inspiration, this plum clafoutis is nothing like what I was thinking of prior to actually wandering into the kitchen to make dinner. I was going to make pancake dome pancakes. Pancake domes are features on Venus. They ar ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... if you are a woman who has left the academic science pipeline after completing a Ph.D., Shelly Heller wants you. From the ... an analogy between donating blood and health workers' consciences. Menstrual Poetry has a story about an encounter with a pro-life ...
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19 Sep 2020: 5 Minerals Every Dabbler Should Know
Aimless: · 11 comments... lists of the 5 minerals they would introduce to earth science n00bs. They are mostly focused on minerals that are "important" in the ...
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14 Sep 2020: The Rusty King of All Metals
Aimless: · 2 comments... him when the mine will be flooded, the knowledge of this science is of the foremost importance, whether it is intended to mine for coal, ...
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13 Sep 2020: Blogosphere Administration (and bonus liquid nitrogen recipe)
Links: · 3 comments... on September 24. Please send me your best recent women-in-science posts (or non-sciencey feminist-oriented posts, if you must) by the 22nd, using the carnival ...
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12 Sep 2020: Attention Seattle (and everyone else)
Meta: · 9 comments... those of you who don't actually read any other ScienceBlogs (hi, Mom): We're approaching the one meeeellionth comment here at the ScienceBorg! This means there's a contest! If you submit a comment with a valid ...
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1 Sep 2020: The Science of Deliciousness
Aimless: · 9 comments... sauce, I cracked open Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking, written by one of the gurus of high tech haute cuisine, ... a few things about cooking, but not so many things about science. Someone with a stronger culinary background (especially in French ...
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22 Aug 2020: The Sedimentary Geology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 7 commentsI had to finish off the series. Happy Friday, everyone. ...
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21 Aug 2020: The Metamorphic Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 12 comments... dentist's motivations, but the top image comes from The Science of Ice Cream, and the bottom from the USGS. I'm not sure what ...
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20 Aug 2020: The Igneous Petrology of Ice Cream
Aimless: · 26 commentsIt was hot out last weekend. Some of you might scoff at what I consider "hot", but the glorious thing about Seattle is that the entire city seems willing to join me in whining and wilting whenever the temperature breaks 80 (that's 25 of your Earth units). ...
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12 Aug 2020: OMG AMNH PONIES!!1!
Aimless: · 9 comments... 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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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... doom to obscurity... but here are a few of the gender and science things: Someone's started a geek feminism wiki. The entries are still pretty sketchy - the "women in science" article is just an empty link - but what a great concept! I've always ...
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22 Jul 2020: Volcanoes Are Good
Aimless: · 17 commentsCraig McClain over at Deep Sea News has been spewing some vile libel about our magmatic companions: Two spectacularly awful events occurred in the ocean. Ocean anoxic event 1 (120mya) and 2 (93 mya). Rather unshockingly, the complete lack of oxygen in the ...
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: Attention New York City
Meta: · 4 comments... as-yet unspecified location in Manhattan, there will be a ScienceBlogs reader shindig. To organize the as-yet unspecified snacks, ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 commentsGentle Reader, help me out here: Did I accidentally write Tuesday's post in crazy moon-language? The response to that coordinated swarm of movie reviews - from people who are affiliated with Sizzle, as well as people like Chris Mooney, who just plain liked ...
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17 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... the Geopalooza! exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Mike Brown on coming up with a name for Make-make (the plutoid ... was just dumb.) Strike one. More fanciful planetary science, a call for shoe-puking, and blog carnivals below the fold. While ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... Randy Olson filmmaker) teaches the crew some things about science, everyone goes home warm and fuzzy***. By the time Sizzle crawls its ... ham-fisted moral of the story: Something something science communication something. Unlike his alter ego Dorkwad, Randy Olson ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 comments... was published sixteen years ago, not in Nature but in Science. The first author on the 2020 Science paper, Paul Silver, was also the second author on this week's Nature ...
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11 Jul 2020: Friday Earthquake Blogging: M7.9 Southeast Alaska
Aimless: · 1 commentWell, technically this is Friday tsunami blogging, but sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the 2020 Southeast Alaska earthquake and ensuing Lituya Bay megatsunami, a half-kilometer high wave which killed only ...
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5 Jul 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 6 comments... month's Scientiae is out! Hear women's voices... in science! A conversation with Mr. Mister: Should I blog about this? It's got ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... scientists should be able to relate: [A]nyone who does science, like nothing ever works when you're doing science and when it works it takes two and a half years to find out that it's ...
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27 Jun 2020: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 commentsI've finally read Dr. Tom Chalko's wackaloon manuscript. It was fantastic. Chalko artfully combines common misconceptions about his subject matter with accessible yet impressively mathy-lookin' slipshod data analysis, and produces an argument that appea ...
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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... is the most irresponsible "science" "reporting" I have seen in yonks: New research compiled by Australian ...
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19 Jun 2020: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments... MRO and Odyssey. So what ends up happening is: we told the science team 'you can do whatever you want, because the only thing we are ... all these [downlink] passes. So as it turns out, what the science team is planning is the most data-rich sol we've had to date, because ...
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18 Jun 2020: Advice for a Mathphobe?
Aimless: · 25 comments... that with a BS in geology in order to be a high school science teacher. Here's the thing: as obsessed as I am with geology, I'm ... in question is a student who doesn't think that an intro science class should contain such nasty things as logarithms, a desire to beat ...
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17 Jun 2020: Another Lusi Update
Aimless: · 4 commentsFrom the perspective of this paper's publication, my cross-country move was badly timed. Since my email access has been so sporadic over the past couple weeks, I missed chances to help edit the press release and do a couple of interviews. The press seems ...
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12 Jun 2020: Devonian Fossil Gorge to Become… SIlurian Fossil Gorge?
Aimless: · 9 commentsI don't actually know what underlies the Middle Devonian brachiopods of my childhood, but I might get to find out soon. Iowa City is experiencing its second "500 year" flood in 15 years, and Coralville Lake has overtopped its dam... again. And the river h ...
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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 you don't mind a little bit of construction jargon it's a good discussion of the details of what kinds of buildings collapse, and what kinds are safe, as well as the logistica ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 comments... another paper due out, this time in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, (I'll link to it here as soon as it's properly in press - ... An Earthquake or Drilling Trigger?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters DOI: 10.2020/j.epsl.2020.05.029 Manga, M. (2020) Did an ...
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28 May 2020: Borrowing Geek Cred from the Mathematicians
Aimless: · 1 comment... quite curious whether Erdös numbers in the geosciences line up with the perceived mathiness of various ...
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21 May 2020: The Scouring of Fossil Gorge
Aimless: · 6 commentsJulian is hosting this month's Accretionary Wedge, and wants us all to discuss a geologic event that's significant to us personally. (Well, technically, he asked for the event that is most significant, but I love all my pet geologic events equally, so the ...
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20 May 2020: I have a Master’s degree… in Science!
Aimless: · 18 comments... if it's good enough for Dr. Science, it's good enough for me. Regular posting will resume shortly. First, ...
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5 May 2020: Tag Clouds for my Papers
Aimless: · 7 commentsBrian posted tag clouds for two of his recent papers. Having no shame, Lab Lemming followed suit. Since I have even less shame, I'm just going to jump on while the bandwagon is rolling. So here's the tag cloud for Davies et al., 2020, currently in review ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... questions to focus on has not been my favorite part of science. My long-term goals have been useful things to cling to when my career ...
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22 Apr 2020: The Personal is Political, Earth Day Edition
Politics: earth day, environmentalism, feminism · 10 comments... more days to write about the relationship of geology, as a science and a profession, to environmental politics... which is good, 'cause ...
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19 Apr 2020: Earthquake in Illinois: What’s up with Wabash Valley?
Aimless: · 16 commentsEvery time there's an earthquake in the Midwest, my mother emails me, just in case I want to move back home to 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 ...
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16 Apr 2020: RIP Ed Lorenz
Aimless: · 4 commentsThe man who discovered the "butterfly effect" died this morning at the age of 90. Ed Lorenz was a meteorologist; I will spare you most of the details of his career, as they can be found in the MIT obituary. But back in the early 60s, when he was trying t ...
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: Women in Science Linky-Post
Links: · 3 comments... inequalities." There's also an article in Advances in Geosciences about women's role in social adaption to climate change. MOAR LINKS ...
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11 Apr 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Slag
Aimless: · 3 commentsCoal doesn't burn completely. Here's what's left over. (Do I apologize for the weak blogging? No! No apologies! I am still trying to work "elusive", "obsequious", and "vapid" into a discussion of bedrock hydrogeology. "Propinquitous", though, that's tak ...
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6 Apr 2020: Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism
Aimless: · 10 comments... (and this may apply more to political blogging than to science blogging, but let's not pretend we haven't inherited a certain amount ... geoblogosphere thanks to a pair of editorials in Nature Geoscience on the pros and cons of blogging. See RealClimate and Highly ...
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27 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Pele’s Hair
Aimless: · 3 commentsThis one's in honor of the new activity at the peak of Kilauea. For pictures and updates, see the Hawaii Volcano Observatory homepage. For more geoblogospheric coverage, check out the posts at Magma Cum Laude and the roundup at Geology News. To get Pele ...
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24 Mar 2020: I’ve Been Subducted Again
Aimless: · 4 comments... manages to screw up, in movie and/or TV form, the science that it took me multiple years, pints of blood and continuing therapy ...
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21 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: Sand Boil
Aimless: · 6 commentsSo sand is just little weensy rocks, anyway. And this is a weensy volcano made of sand, in Peru. It’s about a meter (0.33% 0.9% of a football field thanks LL!) across. Normally, layers of sand and silt underground bear the weight of whatever’ ...
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17 Mar 2020: Stupid Thesis Tricks
Aimless: · 20 comments... the word "stomping" in some of my peer-reviewed serious science business. I like the word "stomping". I also like the word "puddle" ...
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14 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Repost: The Bishop Tuff
Aimless: · 6 commentsThis is an outcrop of Bishop tuff, an ash deposit created 760,000 years ago when the Long Valley Caldera exploded - though “exploded” is, if anything, an understatement. The photo was taken 15 miles (25 of your Earth kilometers) away from the e ...
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11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 comments... these people have a point. There's a lotta white people on ScienceBlogs! More than in the science blogosphere generally? I don't know - pinning down the demographics of ...
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: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 comments... on. And wouldn't you know it, the Earth and Planetary Science Letters RSS feed just dumped a couple of issues on me. Surely I can at ... be helped. They poured honey into a sandbox - for Science! L. Mathieu and B. van Wyk de Vries, Dykes, cups, saucers and sills: ...
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9 Mar 2020: Borg Business
Meta: · 3 comments... of the readership to put favorite posts from across ScienceBlogs into a "best of" feed on del.icio.us. Each of us in the Borg ...
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7 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Mud
Aimless: · 9 commentsPicture courtesy reader Martin. Or maybe Martin doesn't actually read this blog, and it's just Wren. Anyway, thanks, Wren and Martin! Today's rock is a geopuzzle: What's up with these ridges? How did they get there, and what determines their size? I do ...
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6 Mar 2020: Repost: Larry Summers, Math, and Violence
Aimless: · 6 commentsIn light of the fact that Cal State is still committed to firing its nonviolent math teachers (the state attorney general has weighed in, supporting the dismissal, and Kearney-Brown is planning to pursue legal action), I thought I'd dredge up an old quip o ...
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5 Mar 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 2 comments... Happens! Wanted: Gray Literature on Women of Color in Science -- Please pass your hidden gems to Mia Ong. Happy birthday, Scientiae! ... Hey, at least a machine thinks my thesis is revolutionary! Science Toys -- Fantastic DIY edutainment projects. Includes instructions for ...
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4 Mar 2020: Oops! I’m Perjured Again
Aimless: · 7 commentsUntil I saw Ed Brayton's post about a math teacher fired from Cal State East Bay for refusing to sign a loyalty oath, I had mostly forgotten that I might be technically guilty of perjury. Y'see, as a public employee of the state of California, I was requir ...
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29 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Desert Varnish
Aimless: · 5 commentsIf you kick a dark pebble in the middle of the desert, you will sometimes find that it is light underneath. What this means is that you have disturbed a pebble that has been sitting there untouched for thousands of years. During that time, it accumulated ...
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: Focus is a Renewable Resource
Aimless: · 5 comments... post from Female Science Professor, about watching a colleague with ADD work, has been stuck in ...
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25 Feb 2020: Does This Rheometer Make Me Look Fat?
Aimless: rheology · 6 commentsI didn't manage to get myself scraped off onto this month's Accretionary Wedge - oh, noes! While I am tragically subducted into the mantle, though, the rest of you can read about the many open questions currently puzzling the geoblogosphere. Perhaps I ca ...
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22 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Oil Shale
Aimless: · 12 commentsThis is a thin section from some Colorado shale. It's part of the Green River Formation, which is a series of rocks laid down about fifty million years ago when the West was wet. The shales come from a set of lakes that occupied part of what is now Colora ...
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21 Feb 2020: And the Three Billion Dollar Grant Goes to…
Aimless: · 5 comments... the attempt would be a good way to sneak lots of basic science into a single project of obvious social benefit. Look at the places ...
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20 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 comments... this week has been about an article in 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, you ...
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19 Feb 2020: Are We Baking with Volcanic Ash?
Aimless: · 10 commentsI was trawling the USGS photo archive for upcoming Friday Rock Blog candidates when I came across this scanning electron micrograph of wheat. It's from a gargantuan volume published in 2020, full of initial reports about the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. W ...
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15 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Columnar Basalt
Aimless: · 5 commentsWaterfall and Columnar Basalt © Joe Decker. Used with permission. I finally found a piece from my nature photographer friend Joe Decker that would make a suitable subject for rock blogging. Y'see, the problem with fine art photographers is that they ...
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14 Feb 2020: The Union Bogeyman
Aimless: · 15 comments... personally much better off with the UAW than without. The sciences as a whole are much better funded than, say, comparative literature. Graduate students in the earth sciences typically have the option to get a "real" job without leaving the ...
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13 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · no comments... sexual violence" thing, which sort of counts as a theme. ScienceBlogs Please take the ScienceBlogs reader survey -- one respondent will win an iPod Bioephemera -- My ...
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12 Feb 2020: Jim Watson, My Racist Corporate Overlord
Aimless: · 32 comments... don't. I certainly didn't when I signed on as a minion for ScienceBlogs. So I was surprised to learn that the over-the-line racist sexist ... for myself. Given the editorial freedom we have here at ScienceBlogs, I'm not really worried about stains to my personal political ...
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8 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gabbro
Aimless: · 19 commentsgabweb Originally uploaded by kevinzim I have a confession to make: I have absolutely no idea what this picture means. And most of you probably don't either, which is okay, because you're not running around the Internets pretending to be a geologist ...
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6 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 4 commentsTelling Stories: February's Scientiae Carnival Hooray, hooray, for Scientiae! This month's theme brings us lots of stories about what sexism looks like in everyday life... and some less depressing entries as well. Stratigraphic layer-cake T-shirt I would ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... discussion with scientific colleagues about peer reviewed sciencey science. I would rather have sophomoric intellectual wank-fests about science ...
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2 Feb 2020: Lusi Lecture
Links: · no comments... material for your weekend housecleaning. The good science bits start about 15 minutes in. Now, I've got a dog in the science debate here, where by "dog" I mean a paper currently in review. So I'll ...
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1 Feb 2020: We Can Have a New Geological Epoch If We Want
Aimless: · 21 commentsLet's get one thing out of the way right now: The question of whether or not a new geologic epoch has "really started" is precisely as stupid as the question of whether or not Pluto is "really" a planet. The definitions of geologic eons, eras, and epochs a ...
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31 Jan 2020: Hello World
Meta: introduction · 31 comments... boring old rocks - and that's why I was invited to join ScienceBlogs. I was talking about this with a purple-haired friend. He told me ...
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: Moving to New Internets
Meta: · 5 comments... you have already guessed, I've been assimilated into the ScienceBorg. Please update your bookmarks, links and feed subscriptions! My new URL is http://scienceblogs.com/greengabbro, and the new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/GreenGabbro. Greengabbro.net isn't going anywhere - I like ...
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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 before ...
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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... seismology, climate, mineral physics, climate, planetary science, climate, climate climate baked beans and climate, geomorphology, ...
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: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals
Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no commentsThe RSS reader favored by the Machead elite is now free (as in beer). So, while I was enjoying Mr. McMoots's exceptionally craptastic home Internets connection - the kind where you would really benefit from the ability to go to a coffeeshop, download every ...
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7 Jan 2020: Accretionary Wedge Call for Posts
Science: blog carnivals, national pie day · 6 comments... 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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31 Dec 2020: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no comments... I Really Wanted More Comments On: What would you name as "science world heritage" sites? - Good science heritage sites should force us to consider the process of science, in ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... As one human being to another, I care. But remember, science is performed by emotionless robots! In my professional capacity as a science educator, I only care about your ability to use basic principles of ...
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17 Dec 2020: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments... forward to the luxurious lifestyle of international science radio superstardom. I think I am finally starting to figure out how ... to be a great conversation-starter. I wish the "straight" science sessions would depart from the standard formats now and then, ...
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6 Dec 2020: 403 Tamed
Meta, Teaching: anti-spam, blog status updates, plagiarism · no commentsMy apologies to anyone who's been accused of harboring spambots by my blog in the past couple of days. One of the third-party blacklists used by my very favorite anti-spam plugin, Bad Behavior, started throwing false positives like candy at a parade. I've ...
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30 Nov 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: A Randomly-Generated AGU Press Kit
Science, Whimsy: american geophysical union, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, science journalism · 20 comments... 'bout it, Oracle? What stories will we see in the popular science press from this year's AGU? Also: would anyone like to meet up for ... tie-in to invasive species. Those folks in biogeosciences sure get up to some odd interconnections Paleofruit Gathering data ...
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28 Nov 2020: Shaking in Marie Curie’s Boots
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, books, scientiae, women in science · no comments... Afraid of Marie Curie?: The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology)! I'm in it, albeit briefly and pseudonymously! I have ...
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: It’s “That Time” of the Science
Science: goals, the scientific lifestyle, writing · 6 comments... so do all my other clients." I'm at that point of the science. With this project, I've actually been at that point of the science for a very long time. The people around me seem to disagree with my ...
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14 Nov 2020: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains
Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 commentsOnce upon a time in the Neoproterozoic, there was (maybe) an 8,000 km by 1,000 km mountain range that stretched across the half-supercontinent of Gondwana - that's slightly longer than, and twice as thick as, the modern Andes. Those mountains lived for a q ...
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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? Well. There's some great geodesy, climate science, oceanography, and paleontology, and Chris Clarke wrote a lovely ... And of course a there's truly excellent post about neuroscience which totally counts because it was written by a geoblogger (*casually ...
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2 Nov 2020: Friday Fun Poll: Feyerabend
Science, Whimsy: philosophy of science, unprofessional boundaries · 2 comments... only theoretical restriction (or "definition") of science which I am prepared to tolerate is what follows from a principle of general hedonism: all those elements of science which are inconsistent with hedonism must go (which, of course, does ...
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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... that her thoughts aren't focused enough to do great science. Zuska, on the other hand, wishes that she could stop focusing on ... time being total bitches. By contrast, Pat at FairerScience hasn't made friends with her inner voice. Instead, she's made friends ...
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26 Oct 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Panspermia?
Human Fuzzies, Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, meteorites, panspermia · 2 commentsAlas, A Blog linked to this BBC report of a wacky space experiment: Transformed into the size of bowler hat, [a rock] was then attached to the side of the European Space Agency's Foton M3 mission, which launched from Kazakhstan last month. Professor ...
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22 Oct 2020: Carnivalling
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, civil liberties, scientiae · 1 comment... for submission. You want to write about women in science, you know you do! Need a better concept of your own mortality? The ... 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 ...
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20 Oct 2020: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 69 commentsThis image, originally created by Nobuyuki Kayahara, is a great scientific personality test. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, you've got excess spleen qi in your left frontal crockus. This means that you're a vibrant personality whose passions ar ...
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3 Oct 2020: November Scientiae Call for Posts
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, scientiae · 3 comments... to provide a space to share "stories of and from women in science, engineering, technology and math." Note the "of". The past few ... women's experiences, the job of thinking about gender in science belongs to everyone! I'd like to invite all you progressive, ...
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2 Sep 2020: Why I’m a Geophysicist
Personal, Science, Teaching: college education, turning to the dark side · 5 comments... 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 problems ... of: I put the "geo" to my "physics" because Caltech had a science breadth requirement. My early earth science education was not very ...
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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... long and thoughtful ones that say interesting things about science and society and race and gender, but I think it's time to admit that it ... short little paragraphs instead. Has Feminism Changed Science? - Londa Schiebinger. This is a fabulously useful overview of classic ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... professors in the classroom. - Unless they're physical science majors. They never saw Johnny Carson live on television. They have no ...
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29 Jul 2020: Understanding Everyday Symbolism
Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 commentsPop quiz! If someone throws a copy of The Da Vinci Code into the toilet in a campus restroom, they are most likely expressing their distaste for: Dan Brown's schlocky writing style An ethnic group commonly associated with The Da Vinci Code... excep ...
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24 Jul 2020: Summer Doldrum Linky Fun
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, Danish, death penalty, funny, youtube · 5 comments... Naturalis #12 is up and chock full of physical science goodness. Carnival of Feminists #41 came out last ...
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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 has ...
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6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments... time before hearing what I thought of Has Feminism Changed Science? Below the fold, it's time to ask the iTunes pseudorandom number ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments... free! The separation of church and state! Freedom of conscience! Promoting the general welfare! Establishing justice! Only, this ...
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28 Jun 2020: Science World Heritage
Science: dead white men, history of science, world heritage · 1 comment... has asked for more World Heritage proposals that celebrate science. Earth scientists are at an advantage here, because our work is so ... I don't want to see UNESCO fetishize the Great Men of Science who made Great Discoveries and now we can show you how their furniture ...
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21 Jun 2020: Asking for a Pony
Politics: academia, blog carnivals, entitlement, grad school, Phi Delta Qoppa, scientiae · 4 commentsOkay, the latest Scientiae carnival is up, but I'm still processing the last one. I was struck by the way Kat, in the middle of explaining how she hungers for closer professional friendships, takes a quick break to worry that her hunger is unreasonable: ...
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13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments... feeling passionate about other career options, mainly science writing and outreach. I will tell prospective future employers very ...
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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... by wondering about boobiez to pay attention to the science, etc. Presumably the reviewer would vehemently deny all of these ... saying something nice and supporting the cause of women in science. Which is not to imply that he should have held back, if he really ...
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27 Mar 2020: Look What the Discovery Channel Thinks of Female Engineers
Politics, Science: feminism, media, sexism, women in engineering · 22 comments... you people?". I suggest you do the same. [via FairerScience] Update, 29-Mar Here's the reply I got from the woman on the other ...
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20 Mar 2020: Link Tuesday
Links: anti-racism, blog carnivals, gadgets, scientiae · 1 comment... as usual... More women in science goodness at Scientiae #2 Gasoline-powered shoes! Russia is apparently ...
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18 Mar 2020: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes
Science: earthquakes · 10 comments... though, figures are picked up and syndicated across scienceland not because they're pretty, but because they provide a concise ... in the 90s showed evidence to the contrary, and wacky science hijinks ensued. Recent research is more or less evenly divided between ...
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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... can we learn about science from the thought processes of t-shirt designers? Let's ask some ... / Threadless T-shirt competition! First, we learn that science is something that acts on culture, and is important to culture, but is ... tin: Nothing embodies the cultural importance of science greater than [this shirt] Science has been known to over ...
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3 Mar 2020: Belated Carnival Post
Politics, Science: academia, anti-racism, blog carnivals, feminism, gender, grad school, scientiae · 17 comments... Thursday: Philosophia Naturalis, the carnival of physical sciences, and the first-ever edition of Scientiae, the carnival for women and science. I'm sure I've been multiply scooped, but there you have it ... can do to reduce the impact of discrimination in science, from the fuzzy-wuzzy: On Clifford's thread, Scott mentioned that ...
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23 Feb 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Will Lusi Be Stopped?
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Lusi, search requests · 1 comment... happy resettlements, and maybe we'll get some interesting science out of it. The next few are ambiguous (unless the Indonesian drilling ...
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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... half-understandings, and misunderstandings of the geosciences: serving on juries, deciding where to live and where to put factories, ... 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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26 Jan 2020: Bottomless Holes of Curiosity
Personal, Science: time sinks, Web of Science, xkcd · 8 comments... pays for lost worker hours. Yes, I'm talking about Web of Science. Yesterday, I looked up one reference because the book I was reading ...
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14 Dec 2020: Finals Week = Bitch About Students
Personal, Teaching: apathy · 5 comments... limited time they want to devote to their physical science breadth requirement, and if they want to know how much work they can ...
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20 Oct 2020: Selling Out is Officially Hip
Human Fuzzies: consumerism, words · no commentsYes, seismology is still screwing its creepy wiggly tentacles into my brain. No, you can't expect me to pick up the bloggy slack any time soon. However, I have seen final proof that the word "empowering" means "someone wants you to purchase it": We aske ...
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12 Oct 2020: Seismograms from North Korea
Politics, Science: earthquakes, nuclear weapons, seismograms · 4 commentsThere's one basic difference between earthquakes and explosions. Earthquakes happen when two pieces of rock slide against each other; they generate both push-pull and side-to-side waves. Explosions, by contrast, just push everything outward in all directio ...
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3 Oct 2020: Well I Never
Links, Politics, Science: feminism, sexism, women in science · 5 comments... mean bias against women in science is the product of deep-rooted misogyny going back for millennia, and ...
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29 Sep 2020: Two Cliches, As Applied to My Life
Personal, Science: grad school · 3 comments... har!) who can see the elephant's true nature. But in the science version, the grad student is not only blind, but deaf and mute as well, ...
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21 Sep 2020: Blackboard Art Insanity
Links, Science: da vinci, science is pretty, visualization · 2 comments... subscription-only or not, but the winners of this year's Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge were announced in this week's issue of Science. My favorite is this da Vinci-inspired blackboard sketch ...
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11 Sep 2020: TA Training for Berzerkelers
Teaching: blog carnivals, grad school, teacher training · 6 comments... we read seminal papers from the history of the earth sciences, and we talk about science. We don't discuss pedagogy. Then we wonder why our undergraduate ...
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5 Sep 2020: The Hottest “Science” Bloggers
Meta, Whimsy: disciplinary hierarchy, scientists · 1 comment... by "Science" I mean "Life Science", 'cause that's the pool Flags and Lollipops drew on in constructing ... and Environment" coming out on top, followed by neuroscience (and I'll note here that Mr. McMoots, though not a blogger, is a ...
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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... to have their toilet overflow. Women in the life sciences don't patent their work as often as men - why? (subscription-only link ... looked at patent quality, as well as quantity, in the life sciences: "We also find that women patent less, but for women who patent, their ...
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30 Aug 2020: Block, Writer’s
Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 comments... slightly upward, though. Slowly. Slooooow-ly. The pace of science occasionally drives me bonkers. The used ("vintage") clothing store ...
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25 Aug 2020: Tidbits
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, ground water, Mars, Pluto · 15 comments... see when they read the New York Times And for the sciencey: Why the Arctic is like Mars (cold and rocky), and what we're ...
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: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... We're All Going To Die 101, which satisfies the physical science breadth requirement for sundry jocks and humanists. Today was an ...
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16 Aug 2020: Oh That Wacky Internet
Links, Science: blog carnivals, Hans Island, Pluto, transphobia · 9 commentsWednesday is blog carnival day! We have Carnival of the Feminists #21, Tangled Bank #60, and then there's Carnival Against Sexual Violence #5 and The Scian Melt #20 which were actually out yesterday, but yesterday was not blog carnival day. We also have: ...
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: The Grand Compendium of Geoscience Blogs
: · no comments... above have some personal content mixed in with the geoscience. Blogs listed here may or may not have any geoscience mixed in with the personal content. Random Thoughts of a ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments... The study is in the August 15 issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters; for those of you with a subscription, here's a direct link. The second study is in this week's Science - and this one has a nice perspectives article written about it as ...
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10 Aug 2020: James Van Allen, Rest in Peace
Science: Iowa City, James Van Allen, obituaries · no commentsSenior year of high school, my friend and I usually took the stairs up to our after-school astronomy analysis-monkey internships on the top floor of Van Allen hall. One day, he arrived late to lab, crowing, "I just met James Van Allen in the elevator!" - a ...
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9 Aug 2020: Publication and Citation Rates of Female Earthquake Engineers
Politics, Science: academia, earthquake engineering, gender, Science · 5 commentsThere are two companion articles up in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering on publication rates and citation statistics in that field. The first analyzes the careers of 51 highly esteemed senior researchers and examines citation patterns in earthquake ...
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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 commentsToday's WTF sexist loons? is brought to you by the Daily Mail: The female orgasm is the natural mechanism by which men assert dominion over women.... And I for one welcome our new battery-powered overlords. Hattery-tippery to Feministe. More link ...
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4 Aug 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Storms on Titan
Science: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, methane, Titan · 3 commentsI had a lovely Friday iTunes tarot reading nearly prepared last week when the competing Oracle of Firefox and Accidentally Closed Tabs prophesied doom and destruction for all my questions. So, now that the auspicious day of Friday is once again upon us, I' ...
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3 Aug 2020: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way
Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments... as part of a larger argument about gender equity in the sciences. Viewed in such a context, claims that "men and women are different" ... Moreover, if you keep in mind that one's aptitude at science includes a package of seemingly irrelevant traits that help one succeed ...
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2 Aug 2020: Shorter Responses to Ben Barres
Politics: academia, gender, sexism, snark, women in science · 12 comments... who don't subscribe to Nature) on gender discrimination in science. They're great! Steven Pinker: To say that I believe women are ... therefore I did not say that they are innately worse at science. Margaret McCarthy: We are only now ridding the scientific ...
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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... so. And I have some links. Racism at the science museum, via the third Erase Racism carnival The first edition of Panta ... a blog carnival devoted to heat and fluids, is up at Nonoscience - why did no one tell me about this earlier? This is, like, the blog ...
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20 Jul 2020: The Walrus is Angry; Listen to the Walrus
Links, Whimsy: blog carnivals, matlab, volcanic tremor, volcanoes · no comments... XIX Tangled Bank 58 - it's the Internet's favorite science blogging carnival! What's the web design equivalent of Avon? If you ...
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18 Jul 2020: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You
Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 15 commentsMelting the glaciers might trigger massive volcanic collapses, like the one that occurred during the 2020 eruption of Mt. St. Helens but with less warning and more panic. Or at least, that's the sensationalized version of a paper in this week's Journal of ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... of rocks, hoorah! But more on that later. Right now, a science and tech writer in my extended social network just landed a book deal on women's experiences in science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM). She's looking to ...
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10 Jul 2020: Sunday, Day of Links
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 commentsOh for pete's sake (via): Flipping his badge open, he said, "No, not with that shirt. You're protesting and you have to go." Beginning to get his drift, I said firmly, "Not before I finish my coffee." He insisted that I leave, but still not quit ...
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8 Jul 2020: Friday Mountain Blogging: Paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada
Science: rock blogging, Sierra Nevada, stable isotopes · 6 comments... an article by Andreas Mulch et al. in this week's issue of Science places some significant constraints on how fast, and how much, the ...
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2 Jun 2020: Friday Review of Stuff
Human Fuzzies: mac'n'cheez, pop, wordpress themes · 3 comments... white to orange as you stir it in) but didn't taste like Science or like cheese, or like much of anything, really. Boo. Berries & ...
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29 Apr 2020: Yay I’m Not Dead Yet
Personal, Whimsy: birthday, memes · 9 comments... lovely 29th of April (factoids via Wikipedia, memeage via Science Woman): Births: 2020 - Henri Poincaré 2020 - Duke ...
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24 Apr 2020: Brains in Jars Have Needs Too
Politics, Science: academia, mentoring, science studies · no commentsBlog-fixing-upping won't happen until June, but it will happen - and almost certainly under the same familiar brand and domain name, archives to be restored just as soon as I can figure out how. Meanwhile: On mentoring: In fact, I'd go so far as to s ...
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18 Apr 2020: There Goes $14,000
Politics: academia, money, sexism · 14 comments... differential Earth, Atmosphere, and Oceanographic Sciences8.0%92.0%50$64,751$79,410 -$14,659 Civil ... 55 $55,411 $86,600-$31,189 Physical Sciences, Other15.0%85.0%20 $67,418 $76,327 -$8,909 The report doesn't ...
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17 Apr 2020: Dear ASUC Candidates
Personal: Berzerkeley · no comments... second. No, you can't walk me to class. Do you not see my Science Face? I'm walking to the Science Place, thinking about Science! Your petty pre-coffee accostations only ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... if I ever seriously pursue my fantasy career of freelance science writing Internet-people will cower in awe at the scientific ... Valued Readers would not be entrusted with the new URL Science blogging would have to be pretty impersonal, as even a vague ... 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 ...
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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... is paradigms, and the operative analogy as follows: science studies : historiography :: Kuhnianish paradigms** : ??? Not that ...
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13 Mar 2020: Quickies
Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments... field. I work where I do mainly because books, unlike science, have never ceased to be safe, and I've always been on the nervous and ... then recoil in horror at their own invention. Earth science + social science = lurve? "All the years I worked as a geophysicist, ...
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10 Mar 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Clay
Science: carbon cycle, rock blogging, sedimentary rocks · 2 comments... Everywhere you look (for values of "everywhere" limited to science sections of the popular press) you see the same pictures of Enceladus ... clay! One of the few articles in this week's issue of Science that isn't about the Cassini mission is a report from Martin Kennedy ...
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24 Feb 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: I’d Rather Be Camping
Science: moraines, rock blogging, Sierra Nevada · no commentsI went on a Web of Science binge yesterday, sensibly followed by a filing binge today. Which means ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... yet - and my subconscious is supposed to be working on Science. Many Shakespeare's sister has a practical test for whether or not ... vintage. You're getting what you pay for, here). And ScienceWoman has a story to show why the social expectation that women will ...
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27 Jan 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Caliche
Science: rock blogging, sedimentary rocks, stable isotopes · 4 comments... in the water it came from. In an article in this week's Science, Prosenjit Ghosh et al. use the isotopic record from old caliche ...
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20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 commentsO Great Oracle: Were the recent glaciers on Olympus Mons fed from atmospheric water, ground water, or both? Or are we puny humans simply imagining glacial deposits where no glaciers existed? Only your pseudorandom access memory knows for sure! The party ...
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19 Jan 2020: Go Grey Lady Go!
Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 commentsCompare and contrast: [A] study released Wednesday, bolstered by magnetic resonance imaging, suggests that men may be the more natural avengers. Men appear to get greater satisfaction than women when witnessing retribution, research suggests. Bo ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments... it to two of the communication talks in between all the Science. Talk the first: Karen McCurdy on How Congress Stopped Communicating ... or economists), and drawing parallels between political science jargon and mineralogy jargon. Slightly baffling, at least to those of ...
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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 updating On ... - who can resist rock candy? Best celebrity visit was to Science Friday, Translated and Summarized Paragraph that most deserves a ...
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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... go through that ever again. I am in fact smart enough for science, and I've gotten pretty good at adding "hells yeah I'm smart, fuck you" ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU Two
Personal: american geophysical union, beer, conference blogging · no comments... head is full of Science! It's leaking out my ears, and kind of hurts. Poster-standing-by ...
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2 Dec 2020: For Shame, Beeboid!
Science: Berzerkeley · 4 comments... am increasingly disenchanted with the BBC's science coverage. The fact that geochronology is full of tricksy and often ...
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26 Nov 2020: My Neighbors Are Penis Zombies
Politics: Berzerkeley, rape, sexism · 4 commentsScience sez, men really are mindless penis zombies: [The authors] recruited 35 ...
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23 Nov 2020: Own Your Own Conditional Penultimate Paragraphs
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 2 comments... concludes by saying: But I have a different opinion. Science has always been a man's world. The values and norms that control our ... tempting to claim that I could write a better essay on science culture with a monkey tied behind my back, but I won't make that claim. ...
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14 Nov 2020: Eaten the First Time
Links: anti-racism, Barack Obama, blog carnivals, new holiday, pirates, student parents, women in science, work vs. family · 1 comment... Variance about the mismatch between fertility and the (sciencey!) tenure track has been exploding Firefox on me. If you don't want to ... comment was from Kieran Healey: Who knew that women in science reproduce by parthenogenesis? - there are satisfyingly many people on ...
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8 Nov 2020: Increasingly Tending to Non Sequiturs
Links, Politics, Whimsy: boobies, geomythology, grad school, memes, myth, patriarchy, rape, t-shirt slogans · 7 comments... and spicy enchiladas. One If you have a subscription to Science, check out this week's article on the intersection of myth and ... to previously unheeded geohazards; in other cases, where science has demonstrated the danger, legends "enrich the record" and reinforce ...
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26 Oct 2020: How Homosexuality Hurts You
Politics, Science: queerness, smart-assery, yeast · 3 comments... back nothing but gobbledygook, it seems that the March of Science (or actually, in this instance, the October of Nature) has produced an ...
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23 Oct 2020: Peevishness and Science
Human Fuzzies, Links: pep bands, project management · no commentsLast night I was about the crankiest I've been in a long time, largely as a result of the full-on pep band playing crap arrangements of mid-90s pop tunes outside my window. I mean, I've played in pep bands, I like a lot of pep band music, even at midnight ...
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14 Oct 2020: Medium Viscosity Fluid Mechanicians Win Ig Nobel
Science: crackpots · 3 commentsThis is old news by now, but eternal bloggish laggardliness is the price of having a job I can't actually do in my sleep. Anyway, this year's Ig Nobel physics prize has gone to an experiment demonstrating a concept near and dear to every* geophysicist's he ...
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11 Oct 2020: I’m Crushed
Links, Science: dinosaurs, feathers, paleontology · 3 commentsNo feathery duckosaurs? Say it ain't so, Feduccia et al., say it ain't so! I'm not equipped to deal with the study of stuff that's alive... perhaps we can get ace public biologist PZ Myers on the case. Via Geology News ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... progressive trying to become, say, a professor of earth science in their actual backyards. Mr. King, it's like the bumper sticker ...
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23 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · 5 comments... on screen. That's what you do in space: you read about science on your computer. Search Requests national day of staplers 13% ...
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27 Aug 2020: What I Learned in the Field This Month
Science: field work, photoblog, Yosemite · no comments... to me eventually. Meanwhile, here are some pictures of Science! The first two were taken just north of Lake Tahoe, where UCB has a ... Meadows, where we camped at about 8500 ft. You can see the Science in the last picture, in the form of a little blob (a durable ...
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13 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 4-8
Personal: photoblog · no commentsWe arrived in Norway still mourning the loss of our third day in Iceland. The contrast between the clumps of tour busses and the neighboring wild open places was so stark that you can't help but be dazzled by thoughts of what else is out there, equally stu ...
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7 Aug 2020: And Speaking of Bears
Meta: status updates · 5 comments... throwing thermometers into springs and Camping For Science. I'll try my very hardest not to be eaten by a ...
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8 Jul 2020: Stop to smell the roses…
Politics: guest posts, monkeys · no commentsFlowers invest hella energy into creating some bizarre reproductive organs. That’s what you’re giving your mom, sweetheart, sick uncle in a vase of mixed bouquet. Plant nuticles. While monkies get some colorful behinds to signal their sexy mo ...
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29 Jun 2020: Stop to smell the roses…
Politics, Science: guest posts, monkeys · no commentsFlowers invest hella energy into creating some bizarre reproductive organs. That’s what you’re giving your mom, sweetheart, sick uncle in a vase of mixed bouquet. Plant nuticles. While monkies get some colorful behinds to signal their sexy mo ...
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1 Jun 2020: Academic Insecurity Builds Character
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 comments... thing that brought me closest to dropping out and fleeing science for good, was thinking that my insecurities and doubts were ironclad ...
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27 May 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Keiiti Aki Memorial Edition
Science: basalt, igneous rocks, rock blogging, volcanoes · 1 commentI've been trying this morning to think of a pretty way to illustrate the concept of seismic moment, in tribute to Keiiti Aki, who died last week at the age of 75. Measurements of the energy released by an earthquake are not, as a rule, photogenic. Seismic ...
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17 May 2020: Someone’s Been Waiting
Meta: fan mail, monkeys, ninjas, pirates, robots, zombies · 5 comments... scientifistic sounding claptrap, but you get the amount of sciencey-sounding jargon you pay for. And did I mention that if you pay me, you'll get a very good value on your sciencey-sounding jargon? Monkeys turned into workaholics Eeep! The poor ...
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13 May 2020: Further Trivialities
Aimless, Links, Personal: blogular wanking, grad school, telephony · 5 commentsOne: Visitation Zoinks almighty, I've been visited by celebrity! You may all stand in line for sprinklings of secondhand radio pixie dust. Two: A Borrowed Rantlet From Tild, via Feministe Jebus H Christ! Is there no relief from phones? Is there nowhe ...
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9 May 2020: Deconstructing Teh Funnay
Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments... don't get your "humor profile" right away, but it's for science - FUNNY science! And: this juxtaposition is exquisitely sensitive to timing. You can ...
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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 yesterday's ...
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4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments... and reading lists in the humanities and social sciences shall respect the uncertainty and unsettled character of all human ... sources and viewpoints. Attention humanities and social science professors! I will be happy (for a small fee) to provide dissenting ...
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26 Apr 2020: Assorted Mysticisms
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: nutrition, sin, trilobites · 7 comments... rest of my life trying to atone for that. I know my conscience would not let me tell myself that everyone did the same thing and I had ... fighting oppression from doing so, I could not, in good conscience, use my power in that way. For me to say that it's fine that Joseph ...
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21 Apr 2020: Brain Asplode
Links: Caltech, compost, grad school, sexism · 4 comments... scientists writing in Nature) on public outreach in the sciences. Does Friday Rock Blogging count? RIP, awesome compost pile. Damn. ...
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30 Mar 2020: Pharmaceuticals
Politics: pharmacists · 7 comments... smartest take I've seen on these so-called "conscience clauses" for pharmacists is most of the way down here: Four states ... states. 2. Become pharmacist. 3. Convert to Christian Science. 4. Get paid for doing NOTHING and they can't fire me! Posted by ...
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: New Athletic Allegiances and the Advanced Study of Mud
Meta, Personal: academia, Announcements · 11 comments... for a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. Do not hesitate to fail to withold your applause! Topics to be ...
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23 Mar 2020: Cyclic Extinctions?
Science: data mining, mass extinctions, statistics · no commentsAs you might have guessed, I'm in nerd mode 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 vanish ...
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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 ... 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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7 Mar 2020: I’m Getting Sleepy
Links, Science: circadian cycle · 7 commentsScience says: I can't be expected to work in the afternoon, so ...
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5 Mar 2020: Science Friday on Saturday
Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments... the oceanographers and marine geologists, not the earth science department as you might have supposed.) For those of you too lazy to ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... at Alas. A discussion on the correct application of science-fu has erupted over at Pharyngula. In particular, I delight in these ... to one's random spoutings-off on all things vaguely sciencey - HAH! Take that, everyone who didn't like my plate tectonics post! More relevantly, the virtues of science-fu are at issue in the upcoming Pasadena school board election. Scott ...
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: 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 been ...
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11 Feb 2020: Blah Blah Blah
Meta, Whimsy: paint, quizzes, science fiction · 5 comments... Why haven't I finished any of them? I don't know. Which science fiction writer are you? I'm Hal Clement. [via]. I'm also Long Drugs ...
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19 Dec 2020: Someone Has a Small Internet
Meta: fan mail, high school, Internet citizen of the world, nostalgia · no comments... right now. Sigh. One cheez-laden essay about My Life in Science, comin' ...
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9 Dec 2020: Abortion Post Omega
Politics: abortion, ethics · 7 commentsNot really, but at Alas (and subsequently Mousewords) there's been discussion of an essay which attempts to take precisely the opposite of my preferred approach to abortion rights: namely, it considers the problem of fetal value in a hypothetical universe ...
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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... Standard asserting that Californians are Suckers for 'Science', spending a million zillion dollars on speculative stem cell research ... "fuck you" to the Bush administration's theocratic anti-science policies, and getting California a slice of that tasty biotech pie. It ...
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20 Oct 2020: Fabulousness at the Beach
Links, Personal: cars, cubicle living, jalopies · no comments... 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, it's not ...
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23 Aug 2020: Pedantry, Physics
Links, Science: · 7 comments... with a wannabe grad student: The ugly truth is that science is full of arguments that were never resolved by falsification, ... rational argument. The ultimate decision maker in the hard sciences is graduate students. Arguments are resolved when old physicists die ...
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13 Aug 2020: I Smell a Thesis
Science: · 1 commentIt seems my help is urgently needed on a coincedentally tropical isle: Bill McGuire, the director of the Benfield Grieg Hazard Research Centre at University College London, said a huge chunk of rock, roughly the size of the Isle of Man, was on the brink o ...
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11 Aug 2020: Burble Tensors on Cross-Disciplinary Manifolds of Love!
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 5 comments... who find it useful to adopt paradigms from the physical sciences - indeed, I'm still trying to figure out what those goals and methods ... would anyone buy this?" I was trying to think of a good science analogy for this earlier today, and failed. The One proffered example ...
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9 Aug 2020: Moment Tensors as a Heuristic Discourse that Goes “Burble, Burble”
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 6 comments... and the broader cultural narratives constructed therein ("science studies"), I have no idea what it is. And it could be ... about the long-term goals of those who "borrow" bits of science for nefarious humanistic ends, but it's too insistently bedtime to ...
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11 Jul 2020: Stupid Pelicans
Links: bees, birds, environmentalism · no commentsLooks like I was right about the bees - at least if bees are pelicans. ...
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23 Apr 2020: Lazy RSS Roundup
Links: dreams · no commentsA couple of my coworkers have been saying things like "they're giving you responsibilities, that means they must like you!" but seems to me that's kinda like saying "that bear ate your son, it musta really thought the boy was tasty!" - tasty or not, it pre ...
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19 Apr 2020: Crackpot Internet Scientist of the Week
Links: crackpots, electromagnetism · 4 comments... ... fridge magnets are impossible according to today's science. [...] Endless magnetic energy apparently emanates from permanent magnets without any explanation in our science. The only explanation that any physicist will give for this mystery is ...
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8 Apr 2020: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps
Personal: · 2 comments... only quasi-dropout scientist I know of blogging about how science education made me bitter?). The second path is more interesting. ...
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21 Mar 2020: Attraction Science
Links: · 1 commentI can't remember where I saw this Ph.D.-formulated physical attraction test- but anyway, it seems that I prefer men with straight wavy dark light brown hair and rugged, manly button noses. Go, Science! ...
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8 Dec 2020: Peer Review the Asbestos Way
Politics, Science: · 1 comment... And we can all guess what kind of high quality objective science comes out of industry when there's regulatory capture on the line (yes, ... Administration to work in good faith for the benefit of Science and Sundry, we are obviously Traitors. So, leaving aside the Most ...
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9 Nov 2020: What I’m Reading
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... I was bored halfway down the page. The Art and Science of Feng Shui - it appears that decorating is a zero-sum game for Peter ...
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23 Oct 2020: Quicksilver: a partial review
Human Fuzzies: book reviews · 3 comments... Baroque tin can go round and round with the Bludgeon of Science History Hindsight. One wonders how many revolutions they can handle ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... in the humanities, and my particular undergraduate science program? Not the disrespect with which much of the world treats the ... has absolutely killed the introductory computer science curriculum here, but apart from that we undergrads are usually not ...
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12 Jun 2020: That Explains Everything
Links, Science: crackpots, lazy journalism, nanoscience · no commentsThe commercial value of nanotech stems from the simple fact that the laws of physics don't apply at the molecular level. Shit! My degree is worthless! Thank you, Caroline Lucas. (link from the Life of a Fake Lintott) ...
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2 May 2020: Master of Nothing
Aimless: · no comments... had more roaring thews attached. I mean, even Associate of Science sounds kind of cool, in a dark suit and sunglasses sort of way. As an Associate of Science you'd get to hand briefcases full of cash money and important documents ...
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3 Apr 2020: Colossal Squid
Links: · 3 commentsThey've found a specimen of ginormous squid, more or less intact. I always forget about the parts of the world that can still be mapped in pictures of dragons and sea serpents - probably because nobody actually draws dragons on maps any more, which is a da ...
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31 Mar 2020: See My Tanned Blisters!
Personal: Hawaii, hawaiian volcano observatory, kilauea, lava trees, papayas, travelogue, volcanoes · no comments... gift to graduates-to-be in the earth and planetary sciences; the funding is not quite infinite, so we bought our own food. In ...
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8 Mar 2020: I Love Working
Personal: · no comments... with your momma last night. Must write shoddy popular science article. Must graduate. Must acquire a biodiesel school bus, and an ...
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23 Feb 2020: Thank You, Science
Links, Personal: · 2 comments... Caring for Your Introvert. It's got some great lines - Science has learned a good deal in recent years about the habits and ... thread I've seen so far is at Electrolite - the use of science fiction conventions as an example of social interaction is as adorable ...
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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 how ...
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16 Nov 2020: Someone’s Dinner
Meta: · no comments... seriously. I give up. I need the info so I dont fail science. No no: if I give you the info, you'll never construct it for yourself ...
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2 Oct 2020: Questions
Personal: trivialities · 6 comments... tomorrow after lecture? How on earth do the pre-college science education people get the most well-stocked drinks fridge on campus, ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... a good snore-stopper and drool-catcher. Introduction to Science Teaching - warm and fuzzy! Warm and fuzzy! The prof sent out an email ... be taking it out on my poor stuffed penguin. Intro to Science Writing - editors who apparently failed seventh grade science correct ...
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22 Jul 2020: Golden Rule vs. Satanist Credo Payoff Matrix
Links: · 4 comments... with a quick sideways shudder. As you can see, the same science of Game Theory that I and my fellow Defense Department tacticians used ...
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9 Jun 2020: Morbid Fascination
Uncategorized: guest posts · no comments... on my desk, largely acquired from such places as World Of Science and metaphysical bookstores, but I couldn't tell you anything ...
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5 Jun 2020: ooh! shiny!
Links: guest posts · no commentsHikaru dorodango — polished mud balls. There will a crescent sun over North America next Monday night. For maximum impact, remember to stare directly into the sun. ----- ...
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17 May 2020: Old Whippersnappers
Personal: · no commentsWell, it's alumni weekend here at Lake Wobegon, and the usual flocks of decaying engineers have swooped down on campus to peck at the bookstore's display of shameless biographies and clean their feathers at the free-flowing bar. I was sitting in the loung ...
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9 Apr 2020: Ankle Exploding Hi-Ho
Personal: · no comments... reader - online casinos! How shocking! I can't in good conscience support that sort of behavior; they're off the links ...
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10 Mar 2020: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments... stupid materialist rationalisms on everything and pretend science justifies their cold horrible thinking even when it doesn't and say ...
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21 Feb 2020: Academic Angst
Personal, Teaching: · 3 comments... little vision of things, and of course just learning the science is enough for my energies without trying to reform a whole subculture, ...
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24 Jan 2020: Core 1a
Personal: · no comments... I graduate. In summary, it's this: write a paper about science, for a non-sciency audience. Hooray. Hooray. I'm so fortunate. It's not ... journals, and then read a bunch of clear, cogent popular science articles, I start to wonder just what exactly the core curriculum ...
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25 Dec 2020: Wine and Jellybeans
Links, Personal: Christmas, molluscs, reviews of stuff, wine · no commentsIf ever there was a wine that was built to go with Christmas candy, this Country Red from Missouri would be that wine. It's very sweet and fruity, yet still classified as semi-dry... someday, when my sweet tooth is overacting again, I might try a sweet win ...
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10 Dec 2020: goodies from snoogums
Links: · no commentsEveryone loves silly shockwave games. Also, still shots from old-school propaganda flicks. Most of 'em are in the public domain, and the rest are released under something very similar to a GNU project license. Mmm, wholesome 50's children drinking milksh ...
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6 Dec 2020: I Biblioteket
Science: disasters, libraries, licorice, serendipitous discoveries · no comments... boundaries, so my quest for the Journal of Quaternary Science brought me into range of, well, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, ... xerox recycling bin. On the top was a brilliant piece of science that began: Disasters are often associated with physical destruction ...
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28 Nov 2020: I’ll take your course schedule and…
Personal: Caltech, course scheduling · no comments... love for the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. Really. No, really, I do, they've given me lots of free food in the ...
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14 Nov 2020: tuitive
Personal: · no comments... fun to check out the Caltech photo archives - they found science in a basement somewhere, I ...
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11 Nov 2020: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... three potbellied balding men who look like refugees from a science fiction convention, one mid-thirties woman with a leather jacket, and ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... weekend; the association of/for exchange students at the science faculty has arranged a retreat to a research cottage in the middle of ...