Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Red Dust’ Album About Mars
The geniuses at The Onion have come up with a brilliant article about Bruce Springsteen releasing a Mars sci-fi themed album.
View ArticleOccupy Science!
A collection of space and planetary-themed parodies of the 99% movement, including a couple that I made myself!
View Article5 Ways Landing on Mars is like Having a Baby
As we draw closer and closer to Curiosity’s landing, I can’t help but think that there are some important similarities between landing on Mars and having a baby. Before you ask: no, I don’t actually...
View ArticleMSL: Mars Action Hero
You know, I'm tired of hearing about how the Mars Exploration Rovers are so cute, and spunky, but their successor Mars Science Lab is big and ugly. MSL isn't supposed to be cute, it's supposed to be...
View ArticleIntroducing ChemRex!
I neglected to mention one important development from yesterday. On landing night, after I had finished freaking out about our successful safe landing, I noticed that fellow ChemCam post-doc Nina Lanza...
View ArticleUsing a very strong light to study rock number four
To jump on the bandwagon, here is my research, described using only the 1000 most common English words. It would have been nice if "Mars" and "Laser" and "Robot" were available:
View ArticleTweeting Haiku
This 2010 NPR story titled Haiku Takes To Twitter, 140 Characters At A Time and 2009 NPR story titled Twitterers Message by Haiku remind me of my own haiku/Twitter experience earlier this year. I even...
View ArticleThe Up-Goer Five text editor – explaining my geoscience research
Although it's a crazy-busy day today, I couldn't resist taking this challenge that came across my Twitter feed! For the full explanation, please visit the Highly Allochthonous blog posting on...
View ArticleIs a parody copyright infringement or fair use?
Trending these days is the GoldieBlox video, a clever video with three young girls that set up their own Rube Goldberg machine, showing that girls are just as smart and clever with innovative design...
View ArticleMore than your (past) employer may see what you post on Twitter
This is great: this pub just fired the head chef but forgot he was running their twitter: https://t.co/p5xbA0X4Yx — James Bloodworth (@J_Bloodworth) December 16, 2013 As a personal rule, I do not...
View ArticleLol My Thesis
After seeing “lolmythesis.com” come through my Twitter feed twice in one day, I knew this was a site I had to check out. The website is very simple, “summing up years of work in one sentence.” The...
View ArticleSol 1793: It’s Always Sunny in Gale Crater
Not to be overshadowed by other goings on in the solar system, we planned a full day of activities for Curiosity on Monday. The post Sol 1793: It’s Always Sunny in Gale Crater appeared first on AGU...
View Article#ScienceValentines – 2021 Edition
However you approach Valentine's Day, at AGU we like to take the opportunity to celebrate scientific disciplines (and puns). The post #ScienceValentines – 2021 Edition appeared first on AGU Blogosphere.
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