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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... it won't involve any quack apologetics. After months of searching in a desperate economy, I am incredibly relieved to have been offered ...
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20 Mar 2020: Are the Tonga Earthquake and Eruption Related?
Science: coincidence, earthquakes, volcanoes · 11 comments... the volcano, either. So while it's possible that research in the distant future might uncover an explanation for the close timing ...
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24 Feb 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: diy, google earth, Links · no comments... of the different data layers available Geoblogosphere Search -- Can't remember where you saw that awesome geology blog post? Ron Schott has put together a handy custom Google search just for you. Grow Your Own Bismuth Crystals -- Bismuth seems to go for ...
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22 Jan 2020: Flood Basalts
Aimless: · 3 comments... but despite a 20 year old cottage industry devoted to the search for impacts at the root of other mass extinctions, we haven't found much ...
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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 (58th Edition) -- Anthropology carnival! Association of American Geographers Anne U. White Fund -- A grant for doing field work with your partner. Would've been nice to kno ...
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20 Jan 2020: What Does it Mean to “Learn Science”?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments... 3 [crackpots, sloppy journalism, and peer-reviewed research, and I love seeing those things lumped together like that -MB] may well ...
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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: Using Ecto’s Script Feature to Post Your Delicious Links
Meta: code, del.cio.us, ecto, perl · no commentsI was looking for an easy way to post links I've bookmarked in del.icio.us to my blog. Not all the links - there's no sense inundating readers of my geology blog with a bunch of recipes and quilting patterns. Just the links with a particular tag. And no ...
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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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26 Sep 2020: What Planet is my Clafoutis From?
Aimless: · 12 comments... of steep-sided domes on Venus, Journal of Geophysical Research 105 (E11) 26757-26771. 2 3 eggs, 2/3 c. flour, 1 1/3 c. milk, 2 t. ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... aren't always feminist: I'd love to see the focus group research on this one. I can only assume that they sat a group of young hetero men ... over a decade now are being believed without scads of research to back up my every word (and without being seen as such a nutjob). And ...
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8 Aug 2020: Shirts Belonging to the
EmperorScientist
Aimless: · 12 comments... make it drink," says Dr. David Handelsman, an Australian researcher who has spent two decades studying male contraceptives, including an ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 comments... the entire planet. Talks on bread-and-butter basic research would not be accepted. The standard answer to weird or pointed questions ...
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15 Jul 2020: Sizzle… fo’ Shizzle?
Aimless: · 1 comment... global warming movie ever. The film opens with Dorkwad's search for financial backing, but his struggles don't really begin until he's ...
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14 Jul 2020: Earthquake Prediction Just as Tantalizingly Close as Ever
Aimless: · 6 commentsThere's an article in last Friday's issue of Nature describing some changes in the rocks near the San Andreas Fault that occurred in the hours before two small earthquakes. Here's the BBC's writeup; for those of you who can sneak behind the Nature paywall ...
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28 Jun 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 1 comment... Brumms, continental shelf oil, and commodity prices. ResearchBlogging.org wants you to help refine the list of subtopics for "version ...
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20 Jun 2020: Someone Punk’d the CBS Science Desk!
Aimless: · 17 comments... "science" "reporting" I have seen in yonks: New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global ... times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases ...
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18 Jun 2020: Advice for a Mathphobe?
Aimless: · 25 comments... about it, and was still committed to the idea of qual research for the topic I wanted to study. Then I got an advisor who was highly bent toward quant research. She was also pushy. And I got to see that the big goal was probably to ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... though, it's just that I'm in the middle of an apartment search myself. Mr. Man and I keep having the same conversation: Oh hey, ...
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1 Jun 2020: Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
Aimless: · 7 commentsIt's been two years* since the ground opened near Sidoarjo, Indonesia, spewing mud over the homes, farms, and businesses of tens of thousands of people. The disaster quickly acquired the rather endearing name of "Lusi", which is short for "lumpur" (Indone ...
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28 May 2020: Borrowing Geek Cred from the Mathematicians
Aimless: · 1 comment... than 6 - which fact I discovered using this handy-dandy search engine*. Though sadly, one of the papers that links me to Erdös is an obituary, not actual research. As far as I can tell, this is not especially impressive, but I'm sort ...
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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... packed with angst, and convinced I was too stupid for a research career, I crawled out from under the mountain of popcorn* with B.S. in ... that I'm smart enough for any career I want, including a research career, but at this point I can barely even remember what it was like to ...
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11 Mar 2020: Geo News Bites
Aimless: · 4 commentsIt's one of those mornings where everything looks shiny and interesting - everything but the stuff I'm supposed to be working on. And wouldn't you know it, the Earth and Planetary Science Letters RSS feed just dumped a couple of issues on me. Surely I can ...
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21 Feb 2020: And the Three Billion Dollar Grant Goes to…
Aimless: · 5 comments... poll: If $3 billion were yours to spend on scientific research, how would you spend the money? ... For the sake of variety, let's ... superconductivity, and DrugMonkey picked Alzheimer's research. I pick... I pick carbon sequestration. Will $3G be enough to develop ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... post should report accurately and thoughtfully on the research it presents. ... 7. The post should contain original work by the post ... of a good joke I might write a straight summary of the research, together with a blurb about why I find it interesting and how it ...
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31 Jan 2020: Hello World
Meta: introduction · 31 comments... of a professional acquaintance Googling me in search of my email address, only to find not just my blog, but a recent ...
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17 Jan 2020: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals
Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments... will take you right to the XML files): Geophysical Research Letters G Cubed JGR - Solid Earth Reviews of Geophysics Tectonics Water Resources Research Update: Mailbucket is... suboptimal. It truncates long messages ...
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10 Jan 2020: Saline Injections for Venice?
Science: ground water, subsidence, Venice · 3 comments... their plans for a pilot project in Water Resources Research*. Thirty centimeters is not enough to fix everything - high tides ...
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31 Dec 2020: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no comments... the Good News of Geology? - What is the message? Fund my research or San Francisco gets it? Honorable Mentions: The Comic Potential of ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... to submit an assignment that explicitly asks for outside research, without citing their sources in any way. I mean, I can understand that ... question and the answer was "no, you must do your own research but you don't need to cite your sources"? I want to throttle their high ...
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14 Nov 2020: Hiking the Transgondwanan Supermountains
Science: Cambrian, Cambrian Explosion, Gondwana, Neoproterozoic, orogeny, Proterozoic · 4 comments... Joe Meert, who had a much timelier writeup of the actual research. Because the other intersection between geology and life is that ...
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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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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... had selected, she stared at me for a moment, as if she was searching her cultural grab bag for the rules and words needed to advise a fool ...
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22 Jun 2020: Where on (Google) Earth #20
Science, Whimsy: google earth, Where on (Google) Earth? · 5 commentsOkay, okay, technically I am jumping the gun on this one - Tectonite has yet to unmoderate the comments on WoGE 19. When she does, I am sure I will be ignominiously revealed as the 4th or 5th person to find the estuary. However, I am so very excited to hav ...
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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... my strengths and weaknesses as a student and a researcher, the health of my various mentor relationships, and the culture of my ...
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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... of fellowship recipients (and am too lazy to research the matter right now, but perhaps the lazyweb can do it for me?), but ...
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18 Mar 2020: Iconic Figures: Energy Release by Earthquakes
Science: earthquakes · 10 comments... over and over again, and not just because a particular research group is really working the lecture circuit. A handful of such images, ... In other words, they're a handy encapsulation of the research zeitgeist. So this is the first in what I hope to be an occasional ...
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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... I haven't done this in a while, here are this week's silly search requests: venusian passport alien sex -fiend i do not know about ...
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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... an important question: What is the message? Fund my research or San Francisco gets it? Appealing to a scientist's desire for grant ... precautions. Earth science saves lives. Yes, "fund my research or San Francisco gets it" is a vital part of the message. We can provide ...
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27 Oct 2020: Psst… Partisan Googlebomb
Politics: anti-endorsements, googlebombs · 2 comments... and people with funny names). I am not a skeezy search engine optimator, but something makes me think that taking a subset from ...
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12 Oct 2020: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments... tiny, I mean under 100 visitors a day if you strip out the search engines, because I basically relate to other human beings from a ...
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: 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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11 Sep 2020: TA Training for Berzerkelers
Teaching: blog carnivals, grad school, teacher training · 6 comments... Takehome lesson: something something undergraduate research and pedagogy synergy something, OMG ROBOT GECKOS!!1! ...
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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... Bunker Whittington, Smith-Doerr's co-author, who is researching the question for her dissertation. She finds that women without ...
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30 Aug 2020: Block, Writer’s
Personal, Politics: domesticity, sewing, sexism · 7 comments... don't seem to have the requisite oomph to type them. My research productivity is inching slightly upward, though. Slowly. Slooooow-ly. ...
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25 Aug 2020: Am I an Old Fart?
Teaching, Whimsy: college mindset, old fogeyism · 9 comments... chance to eat bad airline food. They have always been searching for "Waldo." The really rich have regularly expressed exuberance ...
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12 Aug 2020: How To Grab Google’s Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments... of the 60% or so of my visitors who arrive here via Google search (and, to a lesser extent, other search engines - but Google traffic wins out by nearly two orders of ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments... was performed on the volcanic island of Montserrat. Researchers from the University of Leeds and the British Geological Survey ...
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9 Aug 2020: Publication and Citation Rates of Female Earthquake Engineers
Politics, Science: academia, earthquake engineering, gender, Science · 5 comments... first analyzes the careers of 51 highly esteemed senior researchers and examines citation patterns in earthquake engineering generally, ...
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3 Aug 2020: Truth, Justice, and the Academic Way
Politics, Science: academia, gender, rhetorical tactics, scientific culture · 32 comments... succeed at the career parts of science, and not just the research, I think it's fair to go from "sex differences make women do better in ...
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28 Jul 2020: These Search Requests Are What I’m Trying to Monetize
Meta: adsense, search requests · 3 comments... the ad clicks have been from people who came here from a search engine. Like this week's crop of hilarious search requests: erode penis women would use a penis better than ...
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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... like, the blog carnival most specifically tailored to my research interests ever. And it's not in the carnival, but Arunn's description of ...
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19 Jul 2020: Is_Googler
: · no comments... not a visitor is arriving from any of several popular web search engines. You can use it to show searchers an extra welcome message, or another block of ads, depending on ...
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18 Jul 2020: One More Way in which Global Warming Can Kill You
Science: climate change, unlikely catastrophes, volcanoes · 15 comments... in this week's Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. Lucia Capra looked at the dates of volcanic collapses during the last ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... STEMM. The author will combine information gathered from research studies with actual women's experiences. Interviewees will include both ... professors female doctors women doing STEMM research in industry, at museums, at nonprofits, and in government labs women ...
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10 Jul 2020: Sunday, Day of Links
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics, Science: fascist police states, Joseph Campbell, science studies · 2 comments... actually knowing the math or being able to produce new research. This has implications for sociology, blah blah Sokal hoax blah, but I'm ... unthinkingly, in every case - like random sampling the search set of an optimization problem, or saving a record of every solution ...
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27 Jun 2020: Blissfully Unaware of my Peril
Human Fuzzies, Politics: evolutionary psychology, marriage, wedding-industrial complex · 8 comments... rolling at that one would be enough to run a nice research outpost in Tanzania for a week. Fortunately, she stops with the handwavy ...
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23 Jun 2020: How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache
Meta: blogtinkery, database backups, database recovery, Google as backup, scripts, WordPress · 2 comments... frantically saving cached pages from Google. I ran through searches like inurl:greengabbro.net/2020/05 to save entries one month at a ...
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31 May 2020: Weighted Words
: · 9 comments... pretty permalinks enabled, and you want to use a prettier search URL, look in weighted_words.php for these lines: // Edit this string to change your search URL. echo '/index.php?s=' . $word . '&submit=ww'; ...
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: WordPress Plugins
: · no comments... visitors who just arrived from any of several popular web search engines. Recently Spammed lists entries most recently attacked by ...
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16 Apr 2020: Hello world!
Meta: anonymity, Internet branding, pseudonymity · 12 comments... be pretty impersonal, as even a vague description of my research interests is enough to pin me down to a very small community I've ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... for breakfast?. Pfft. Oracular househunting advice and search requests under the fold. The Covering: The Occasion - Ease ... not live with her, no matter how nice her cat might be. Search Requests time free attack bubblebots maths inurl:sex 'Warning: ...
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13 Mar 2020: Quickies
Aimless, Links, Politics, Science: better living through science, mystery rocks, scientific culture, sexism · 9 comments... human well-being" when we're begging the government for research money, but it's like Richard Feynman said about sex and physics: it ...
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10 Feb 2020: Friday Fluffypost
Whimsy: dreams, pirates, racism, search requests · 1 comment... advice this week. But it's been a while since I've done search requests! Search Requests exploded moms giraffe my butt the most boringest website ...
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20 Jan 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: Martian Edition
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, Mars · 2 comments... predicting that I'll grow up to be a graceful Mars researcher after all? If it's right about the rest of this, it's likely that I'd ...
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19 Jan 2020: Go Grey Lady Go!
Politics, Science: evolutionary psychology, lazy journalism · 2 comments... satisfaction than women when witnessing retribution, research suggests. Both leads highlight the gender differences found in the ... possibly have been expected to consider the actual research in the field in his remarks. I think it's also the universe where Dr. ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments... promptly assumed meant that actively working to get your research popularized is (potentially) good for your career - and it would ... and The Journal of the American Medical Association. All research faces lousy odds of breaking in to the popular press*, but if it's not ...
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: Pretty Volcanokaos!
Links, Science: science is pretty, volcanoes · no commentsAlert readers may already be aware of the latest eruption at Augustine, one of several volcanoes located near Anchorage, Alaska. But did you know where to get the prettiest pictures? ...
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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... designed for double-dipping in the students' own research are a godsend; scheduling finals so that they're not the week after the ...
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8 Dec 2020: AGU Four
Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments... socks. But I have to say, socks that said "Geophysical Research Letters" or "Tectonophysics" wouldn't be nearly as cool as socks that ...
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6 Dec 2020: AGU Two
Personal: american geophysical union, beer, conference blogging · no comments... to chat was affiliated with the Institute for Creation Research. Having that on your badge is kinda like having a huge booger hanging ...
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1 Dec 2020: Happy Blog Against Racism Day!
Politics: anti-racism, blog carnivals, racism · 4 comments... about this. On a cursory (and totally innocent! cough) search I managed to find more Latino men sans mustache than otherwise. So maybe ...
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25 Nov 2020: The Shoppingest Friday iTunes iChing of the Year
Whimsy: consumerism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments... Except for whoever it is that wants a Magnadoodle. Search Requests Star+Trek+Sex HAVABANANA! What is meant by the ...
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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... of myth and geology: Myths can sometimes alert researchers to previously unheeded geohazards; in other cases, where science has ... place: you're too lazy to be an academic! Go do more research! Exclamation points containing imitation whip noises! I'm not sure how ...
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23 Oct 2020: Peevishness and Science
Human Fuzzies, Links: pep bands, project management · no comments... tests (and will discover what that implies in a research setting), and try at every turn to make sure that the stuff we're doing ... we'll be trying to discover a useful and formal agile research methodology. Hell, if I knew C++ (or gave the slightest shit about ...
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21 Oct 2020: Friday Friday Friday
Whimsy: earthquake prediction, Friday random ten, search requests · no comments... to hit on me. Naughty Oracle! No cookie. This Week's Search Requests how molluscs shit describing a nose +"not enough ...
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4 Oct 2020: Whereas
Human Fuzzies, Personal: grammar · 1 comment... lately, particularly in journals like Geophysical Research Letters where the length limit can produce some rather strained syntax, ...
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23 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · 5 comments... do in space: you read about science on your computer. Search Requests national day of staplers 13% ear wiggling mr clean is ...
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20 Sep 2020: Climate Change in Human Teeth
Science: climate change, stable isotopes, teeth · no comments... a bit of quirky research (link for any of you with subscriptions to Climatic Change): In order ...
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16 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Human Fuzzies: academic politics, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests · no comments... of us end up in Bermuda instead? The oracle is unclear. Search Requests Warts known as "molluscs" girl in a box kidnapping water ...
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9 Sep 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-N
Whimsy: co-op living, Friday random ten, Germany, Nutella, search requests, welfare · 4 comments... butter, which together make delicious. [link via] Search Requests electro college votes per states astronomer exploding ...
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2 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing
Science, Whimsy: Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, search requests, Sierra Nevada · no comments... to the Great Mother Mandelbrot, I pray that you do my research for me answer my query: can heat loss via ground water circulation ... it doesn't go deep enough to scavenge significant heat. Search Requests Lazy Hypothalamus spiders in my car glow how to put meat ...
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27 Aug 2020: What I Learned in the Field This Month
Science: field work, photoblog, Yosemite · no comments... two were taken just north of Lake Tahoe, where UCB has a research station. The rest are from Yosemite National Park, mostly outside ...
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3 Aug 2020: Travelogue! Days 0-3
Personal: photoblog · 5 comments... of Icelandic history and culture, of the type you can research at home and drop in just where it will make you seem an informed and ...
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24 Jun 2020: Friday Hangover Blogging
Personal: search requests · 4 comments... than to let L. mix me a drink. I really did. Zurgh. Search Requests Who are the internet scientist geologist's ...
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17 Jun 2020: Friday Random
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · no comments... Vol. 7 Cordelia's Dad - How Can I Sleep? - Delia Search Requests 2020 email address guestbook of secret cult society members ... ABOUT LONG PEPPER IS CRUD DRUG OR SPICES fucking fake search results assholes ERROR: Not enough arguments cacti are tetanus shots ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Random Ten: Delphic Edition
Meta: Friday random ten, search requests · 1 comment... leave our parents behind and head for foreign lands in search of our freedom". The House (all y'all): Hedningarna - Mettsän Tytto ... California for the foreseeable future. I am apparently searching for my freedom. The complications to the situation appear to be about ...
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3 Jun 2020: Friday Random Nineteen
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments... Me Acoustic Mayhem - Acoustic Mayhem - Tom Dooley Search Requests where do they poo when they have cholera meaning of * ...
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1 Jun 2020: Academic Insecurity Builds Character
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, brain in a jar, impostor syndrome · 6 comments... be just a curiosity machine in a jar, that successful researchers also feel frustrated and apathetic and overwhelmed. Others (albeit ...
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30 May 2020: Weighted Words v. 1.1
Meta: Weighted Words, WordPress, WordPress plugins · 2 comments... on exclamation points, and contains an option for pretty search URLs. It also fixes an XHTML validation problem with the ugly search URLs. If you don't use mod_redirect for pretty permalinks (or you ...
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26 May 2020: Friday Frittering: Last Day at Work Edition
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: candy, chocolate, feminism, gender, girlhood, quizzes, search requests · 6 comments... inarticulable reasons. Kitka - Dumai, Zlato (3.3 MB) Search Requests rock chick super mullet why do people has green ...
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23 May 2020: In Lieu of Zurgh Urfle Blah
Links, Politics: kittens, networking, science jokes, women in science · 4 comments... be open for applications in a few months. Women are stuck searching for ads, and by the time the ad is out, you're already ...
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19 May 2020: Friday Fluff
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: music reviews, search requests · 2 comments... med joddel, but only if there is a lot of joddel). Search Requests meaning of meep meep meep how can i waste my time right ...
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17 May 2020: Someone’s Been Waiting
Meta: fan mail, monkeys, ninjas, pirates, robots, zombies · 5 comments... by "trouble" I mean "too fucked up to tell the search box from the spout box" of course. But oh! I'm no pharmacy. Nor am I a ...
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12 May 2020: Friday Random 15
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes, search requests · 7 comments... Knock. IV. Recitative and chorus- 'So this guy' Search Requests No one really crazy dropped by this week, just a lot of people ...
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: Happy Juror Appreciation Week
Personal: jury duty, utter glee · 6 comments... seal on it, I won it, and it is mine!). Either that, or researching one's judicial ballot is just plain good ...
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5 May 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Seven
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 6 comments... Motion - Cello Suite #1 In G, BWV 2020 - Prelude Search Requests marshmellows - active ingredient food canned ...
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4 May 2020: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments... to apply to data acquired by means of one's own original research. But the sponsors of similar bills typically have a high regard for the ...
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2 May 2020: Feedtinkery
Meta: blogtinkery, RSS, WordPress · 5 comments... entries (where it would be redundant). Market research: Does anybody actually use the comments RSS feeds? Would you, if I made ...
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28 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Twelve
Whimsy: Friday random ten, search requests · 2 comments... Music and More - Roseville Fair The week's best search requests: pinging in the kidneys molotov + snail DIRTY COMMENTS ...
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25 Apr 2020: Feminisms
Politics: feminism, feminisms, ideological boundary police · 4 comments... that I can still maintain focus for thinking and research and writing. In all other ways, it sucked. One of the things I wanted ...
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23 Mar 2020: Where Are All the Earth Science Bloggers?
Links, Science: geoblogosphere · 31 comments... Science - the weblog of the Roger A. Pielke Sr. Research Group Also of note: Transect Points has a list of soil science ...
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5 Mar 2020: Science Friday on Saturday
Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments... Budget. EVAR. IF: Let me list some of the oceanographic research-funding agencies that have experienced budget cuts lately. RW: Here are ... have they been funded? RW: No. By the way, our research fleet is going to explode in three to five years. Not only will the ...
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23 Feb 2020: What I’m Reading Tonight
Links, Politics: Caltech, endorsements, feminisms, local elections, Pasadena, political tactics · 7 comments... incumbent Susan Kane, who lists her occupation as "research scientist" - she's the associate director of research at the City of Hope medical center. I know Scott; he was one of the ...
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7 Feb 2020: Monday Links to Stuff
Links: brain drain, Iowa, nerdy jokes · no comments... adults than any state except North Dakota. In search of bigger cities, hipper crowds and warmer weather, young Iowans flee in ...
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11 Jan 2020: Mmmm Rocket Fuel
Politics, Science: earthquakes, ground water, perchlorate, pollution · no commentsAh, perchlorate - an issue near and dear to my paycheck! I can't comment on the toxicology... but once again I am reminded of just how silly it is to plumb with a single set of pipes. I don't want to drink diluted rocket fuel, but I'm pretty confident that ...
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17 Dec 2020: Pink
Politics: cars, colors, gender · no commentsIf it had a diesel engine, this would be my new car. How on earth could I resist a pink convertible grease-powered jalopy with the Powerpuff Girls painted on its side? Particularly as my car is in the shop, again, to deal with leaking brake fluid, again - ...
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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... a million zillion dollars on speculative stem cell research while spurning measures that would totally, definitely, for-real save ... PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 71 in California (the Stem Cell Research and Cures Act) was an acute case of electoral folly. As Californians ...
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31 Oct 2020: Sample Ballot II: Initiatives Ahoy!
Politics: · 2 comments... blah I can't hear yooooooo! Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research: No This one hurts. I think stem cell research is important enough that someone should fund it; if the federal ...
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20 Oct 2020: Fabulousness at the Beach
Links, Personal: cars, cubicle living, jalopies · no comments... week was Earth Science Week! I missed it, too. But as my search requests remind me, it's not too late to miss out on Mole Day 2020! Who ...
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11 Oct 2020: Weekend: Music, Injuries
Human Fuzzies, Personal: harmonic numbers, prickly pear jelly, righteous indignation, sugar syrup · 4 comments... Three-Toed Sloth via Crooked Timber, it's a cat research review. Saturday night, I See Hawks in LA was live at my old dorm. ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... more than W. will, and his policy towards stem cell research will make just as much sense as W.'s, if not more!) Stopping to smell ...
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13 Aug 2020: I Smell a Thesis
Science: · 1 comment... McGuire, the director of the Benfield Grieg Hazard Research Centre at University College London, said a huge chunk of rock, roughly ...
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9 Aug 2020: Moment Tensors as a Heuristic Discourse that Goes “Burble, Burble”
Human Fuzzies, Science: · 6 comments... Red. Unless it is a discussion of historical physics research papers qua literature and the broader cultural narratives constructed ...
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1 Aug 2020: Pimp Mah Blawg!
Meta: blogtinkery · 1 comment... those goddamn templates: comments, comment preview, search results, archives, blah blah blah. Make them all pretty-lookin, and ...
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26 Jul 2020: Cruise to the Interior of the Earth!
Science: crackpots, hollow earth · 1 comment... Pole with a bunch of crazies: Days 9-11 Start the search for the North Polar Opening to the Inner Continent. Days 12-14 Once ...
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8 Jul 2020: Sunset of the Vegetative Poodles
Links: · 1 comment... articles contain: The Los Angeles cityscape is still in search of a defining view. This time, they think it might be palm trees. Good ...
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7 Jul 2020: Am I Free to Go?
Politics: · 2 commentsDriving home last week sometime, KPFK had an interview with Katya Komisaruk, a criminal defense lawyer and author of a newly-published book detailing one's rights in various kinds of encounters with law enforcement, and how those rights are best exercised. ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... where I read this, nor can I put together a Google search that brings in anything but deserved criticism of their policy of ...
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14 Jun 2020: Sad Monkey News
Uncategorized: monkeys · no comments... some columnist; the only reference to monkeys in the searchable Florida statues is regarding the management of rhesus monkeys in ...
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7 Jun 2020: Fat Free Half and Half
Human Fuzzies: dairy, Food and Drug Administration · 4 commentsA clear case of government underregulation of the dairy industry: Fat Free Half & Half. Or, rather, sneaky loophole-exploitation by Land O' Lakes, as the official definition of half and half stipulates that it must contain between 10.5% and 18% milkfat ...
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18 May 2020: Sorbets I’m Dreaming Of
Food: cooking, desserts, recipes, sorbet · 6 commentsAm eating the aforementioned rhubarb sorbet over a pile of lightly crushed nilla wafers - delightful! The rhubarb isn't actually from my yard, but it could be, in theory, if I were eating my plants rather than nursemaiding them through a summer heat they'r ...
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28 Apr 2020: Coolant Pixies
Personal: · 5 comments... ever understand my car's little quirks, and the constant search for replacement parts rusting on the side of the road. I love hurling ...
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15 Apr 2020: Oh Boy an Earthquake!
Science: · 10 comments... Keilis-Borok said, "so acceptance by some research teams will take time. Other teams, however, accepted it easily." Dude ...
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8 Apr 2020: In the End, I Still Really Like Maps
Personal: · 2 comments... has been wandering around my head lately in search of something to connect with, but it hasn't gelled. All signs point to ...
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2 Apr 2020: Widdle yukkie poo!
Personal, Whimsy: gardening, hospitality, slugs · 5 comments... slimy rope and rappelled down, twisting in the wind as it searched for suitable habitat. It stretched out its eye spots with all the ...
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2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 comments... value priced, quality product. Extensive consumer research is conducted prior to introducing any packaging changes. Nevertheless, ...
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1 Mar 2020: Describe Your Nose-Picking Habits
Links: boogers, medicine · 1 comment... a disturbing search request comes The Nose Board, and the disturbing realization that Empty ... The moral of the story seems to be: do lots and lots of research before allowing someone to perform surgery on your nose or you will be ...
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14 Feb 2020: Someone Flails Wildly
Meta: · no comments... missed the spout box while it was gone. But the misplaced search queries do make me wonder: ? growth of mung ...
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18 Jan 2020: Someone Again
Meta: · no commentsThe spout box has been getting a lot of empty submissions lately; it's clearly time to re-jigger the whosit filters. Then, of course, there's the ultimate emptiness of life to contend with: ho do you measure it Not being intimately familiar with angst me ...
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12 Jan 2020: Pride’s Downfall
Whimsy: · 3 comments... tracing search engine hits has inevitable drawbacks. I just found a blog devoted to the ...
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8 Dec 2020: Peer Review the Asbestos Way
Politics, Science: · 1 comment... Why? Because they rule out peer review of government research by anyone who wants or has a research grant from the agency to be peer reviewed, narrowing the pool of ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments... and asks us if we've ever been arrested. And if he can search the car. And if we have any pipes or pot, and what we're going to do ... MARIJUANA BUST! Finding neither pot nor any excuse to search the car again, he left us to wait for the tow truck, which came by in ...
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18 Oct 2020: Joe Jonah Euclid
Human Fuzzies: · 5 comments... Bizarre Disastors & Senseless Crimes. There are research programs to Monitor this fine ...
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20 Sep 2020: Someone’s Expense Account
Meta: · no comments... fan mail. You are my fan. Stop asking questions. Your search box doesn't work! Fix it! Oh. Erm, try it now - the default template is ...
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6 Jun 2020: Someone’s Unemployed!
Meta: · 1 comment... no fun to play with. for reseach Oh. Dehydrated gerbil research. Oh. I want to be a monkey pirate. Arr, matey, don't steal me ...
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8 May 2020: Last Midterm EVAR
Personal: · 8 comments... for a car and a job. It's time to write resumes and research repair histories and gas mileage. And if you've got an entry-level surveying/analyst/research assistant position or an itty-bitty 100,000-mile jalopy in the L.A. ...
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5 May 2020: Police Can’t Stop Drinking
Human Fuzzies: syntactical ambiguity · 6 commentsThe title of this post comes from my anthropology reading (Harvard has conveniently put it online) as an example of English syntactical ambiguity. The authors claim it has "at least three" meanings, and translate two of them into Italian... the third is le ...
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16 Apr 2020: Green Mung Beans
Meta: · no comments... how the monkeys escaped from a fenced area outside the research facility Tuesday, said James Hartman, a spokesman for the St. Tammany ...
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18 Nov 2020: Coherence is for Chumps
Personal, Whimsy: · 7 comments... the space of all possible national anthems. I have been searching, off and on as my self-image wavers, for a low-cal, non-cigarette ...
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1 Sep 2020: New Gadgets
Meta: · no comments... an RSS feed, for all you zany aggregators out there. Your search queries are now logged, courtesy leuschke. And I finally have a reasonable looking template for the search results. Yay! It's way too fucking hot outside. You can now turn any ...
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19 Aug 2020: Sild Tamale?
Food: fusion cooking, herring, recipes, tamales, tofu · 3 commentsFirst off, I made some fruity tofu kugel tonight, and it was quite good. The sort of recipe I'd recommend to my family, except it really needed some cream of mushroom soup and maybe chow mein noodles on top. Mom, here's the recipe site I was talking about. ...
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6 Jul 2020: Red Pop Redux
Links, Meta: · 3 comments... Red Pop, presumably stemming from my old desperate search for fellow Red Pop afficionados. So after a quick look through the ...
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1 Jul 2020: 404
Links: · 4 comments... php switchover will generate, I stumbled upon the 404 research lab. Far-too-enthralling collection of unique error messages - note the ...
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30 Jun 2020: Fixings
Whimsy: · 3 commentsSlowly but surely, things are improving. Trackback is working, anyway, sort of kind of hopefully. Of course, Trackback is also shaping up to be little more than a whizbang doodle, at least around here. It's a way of automating those "I responded to your po ...
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30 May 2020: Someone Wants Naked Sorority Frolicking
Whimsy: fan mail, search requests · 3 comments... or not. Speaking of googlebots, I fulfilled my case of search engine envy with a hit for "hummus history" yesterday - not to mention a ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... Me: I know you know Caltech is first and foremost a research institution, and that most of the profs only teach because they have to. ...
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15 Apr 2020: Search Engine Envy
Meta: · 5 comments... I said people have found my real name with a simple Google search... but it wasn't that simple. Give me some credit here. Although, come to think of it, search they used would probably not occur to anyone anymore, now that I've lost ...
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11 Apr 2020: Rampaging Hordes of Someones
Meta: · no comments... any of this constitute valid market research? Do I need market research? I feel like I need a panel of bored ten-year-olds to say dumb ...
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3 Apr 2020: Someone’s Hungry
Meta: · 1 comment... research from the void: If you think it's butter, but it's not., ...
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23 Mar 2020: Someone Found Me!
Meta: · 1 comment... Was I in the last place you looked, or did you keep on searching for more lost souls? purple monkey dishwasher Dear me, I had to do research to remember that this is a Simpsons reference. As a side note, they ...
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14 Mar 2020: Someone’s playing drunken Scrabble
Meta: · 1 commentYou Monkey Pork-Choppy McMOOTS! Yep, that just about sums it up. As a side note, I'm currently the only person on the internet who's used the word McMoots in an indexed location. Perhaps I should adopt it as a surname, to distinguish myself from all the ...
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18 Feb 2020: Guerilla Feminism
Politics: feminism, gender, sexism, stereotypes · no comments... spent a good part of today searching for tasty edible finger paints, and so passed through more than one ... stereotypes can start to influence our offspring. The research cited here is all old (2020s) - and thank god it is, because otherwise ...
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30 Jan 2020: I Heart Time Cube
Whimsy: crackpots, time cube · 1 commentJust in case you hadn't heard, Gene Ray the Time Cube guy gave a bit of a talk at MIT. What with the mad-crazy networking in the scientific community and pseudo-greek organizations of the privileged and all that, I got a summary of the event fresh in my em ...
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29 Jan 2020: Coffee
Human Fuzzies: Astrid Lindgren, coffee, inner child, pippi longstocking · no comments... most of a Randian-feminist synthesis that I'd found while searching for some good Pippi-related feminism to post in memoriam, and Ayn ...
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23 Jan 2020: Department of Search Requests
Whimsy: · no comments... the Department of Search Requests: "using tea bags on pimples." I know nothing about this, but I ...
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21 Jan 2020: Silly Hats Only
Links: · no comments... other news, there's been a disturbing lack of disturbing search requests in my referrer logs lately. I must clearly redouble my efforts. ...
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8 Jan 2020: Fish-Blooded Bourgeois
Links, Meta, Personal: binders, highlighters, killing brain cells, office supplies, random classes, rollerball pens · 1 comment... a "randomly spends the whole lecture talking about his research" unenthusiastic prof. This guy's research is the kind of thing that brought me into geophysics. Mmm, deep earth ...
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16 Dec 2020: deck the halls with…
Links: · no comments... search engines are getting more requests for Christmas than they are for porn ...
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15 Dec 2020: mo’ betta’ meta meta burger
Meta: Caltech, denmark, search requests · no comments... for "blog caltech". It seemed like a reasonable thing to search for. And so I've found some random froshly blog, and have been playing ...
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21 Nov 2020: joining my drunk…
Politics: · no comments... a majority bloc in parliament. **Incidentally, a google search for 'Pia Kjaersgaard nude photos' doesn't turn up anything ...
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20 Nov 2020: the 10-crown store
Personal: search requests, socks · no comments... today's referral logs, we have a search for "trendy socks" and another one for "mullet coffee table book". I'm ...
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14 Nov 2020: tuitive
Personal: · no commentsI've just (well, a couple days ago) gotten a huge file of correspondence from two years ago, and have been reading through it with the bizarre and morbid interest with which one ought to look at the corpse of a dead self, or more aptly the shed skins of bu ...
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11 Nov 2020: hey hey I’m a monkee
Meta: · no comments... blog. Referral logs are fun that way, plus I got search engine hits for "denmark naked elections", "incommunicando" and "gabbro ...
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5 Nov 2020: sinful blogging
Meta, Whimsy: · no comments... entries with words I think will generate funny search engine hits -- naked naked naked! meta-commentary and the use of ...
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2 Nov 2020: false hopes
Meta, Personal: minions · no comments... Geo." along with issues of the Journal of Geophysical Research from 2020) I figured maybe I should wait until I've got a bit more ...
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24 Oct 2020: super stalker search!
Meta: · no comments... announcing the beginning of the green|gabbro super stalker search From the information given on this website, I am uniquely identifiable, ...
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13 Oct 2020: More fun with referral logs
Meta: search requests, socks · no comments... least, there's someone in Belgium who's been fruitlessly searching for jerkoff material featuring boys in white socks, and keeps running ...
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12 Oct 2020: Back in Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments... good feeling of camaraderie on that little oceanographic research island. Towards the later part of the week, Christian the Ph.D. ...
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7 Oct 2020: Suckers!
Personal: government gravy trains, Sweden, the scientific lifestyle, utter glee · no comments... governments to pay for your vacations by calling them research, and are instead funding my vacations with your tax money." I'm ... from which to test instruments and do other Important Research. Haha! This has all convinced me of the unassailable correctness of ...
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5 Oct 2020: Life in Copenhagen
Aimless, Personal: · no comments... class is taking me on a most-expenses-paid trip to a research station in Sweden, I think it might be a good idea to go to Ireland the ...
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20 Sep 2020: incommunicando
Aimless, Whimsy: · no comments... at the science faculty has arranged a retreat to a research cottage in the middle of Danish agricultural nowhere. It promises to be ...
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16 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments... registered yourself with either blogdex or disturbing search requests, you should do so immediately. Blogdex is about the best look ...
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31 Aug 2020: bandwagon meme
Whimsy: · no comments... too). This site turned up at a respectable #9 on a google search for "little gal naked" - hah! I've also been meaning to hop on this ...
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30 Aug 2020: I’m a Unitarian?
Links: · no comments... access to the dorm computer room... here's the religion search. Enter all the features you want from a religion, and it tells you where ...