An appropriate situation for “ROTFL”
Okay, I don’t usually talk about the whole evolution/creationism thing, but this post on Pharyngula is just about the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. I had to share.
View ArticleI wanna be a Science Scout!
I just found this website (part of the Science Creative Quarterly), and I had to get my own “flair”. (Never was in the Scouts, but I was always a little jealous of the cool badges.) Apparently some of...
View ArticleAnd geology is…
(From http://xkcd.com/) …way over to the right somewhere. Possibly off the screen. Yeah, we use ALL that stuff.
View ArticleIt’s getting a little nippy out there
Having lived in the mid-Atlantic my entire life, I’m finding it a bit hard to get adjusted to how cold it can get around here sometimes. (If any of you live in Alaska or the Dakotas or Minnesota or...
View ArticleSweet irony
Guess who isn’t commenting on the eruption of Mount Redoubt? Sometimes nature has really perfect timing.
View ArticlePoor land-use planning and volcanoes
From http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/090319-tonga-volcanic-eruption-ap-video_big.jpg So it looks like someone is already moving in on the new land created by the eruption of...
View ArticleIf I were a geologist on Star Trek…
…I could apply for a joint medical degree, because sometimes rocks need doctoring. …Sometimes a rock hammer wouldn’t be enough to deal with those really stubborn minerals. …I could give up hand lenses,...
View ArticleI wish I could have done this in my intro geo labs
Unfortunately, I highly suspect I would have had to spend a lot of time afterward avoiding irate parents and cell-phone-addicted students if I’d tried to chuck their gadgets out into the hall.
View ArticleSo true
As a followup to my AGU posts, an offering from Surviving The World (my new favorite webcomic):
View ArticleBruce 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 ArticleEvil Geologist Volcano Lairs: Location is key
A little while back, the Geological Society of London Blog posted about the best volcanoes for evil scientist lairs. Erik Klemetti didn't like the top 5 choices, and decided to reveal his own: Mount...
View ArticleOccupy Science!
A collection of space and planetary-themed parodies of the 99% movement, including a couple that I made myself!
View ArticleI get comments…
Usually the spam comments I get are the usual - trying to advertise or sell something or interest me in services of a sexual/pharmaceutical nature. But sometimes I get things that are, shall we say,...
View ArticleSurvival geology for the space traveler
For your reading pleasure: a totally frivolous post based off musing I've been doing when I actually have time to sit down and watch TV. Recently I've been on a scifi kick (and got sucked into watching...
View ArticleIf you were to wander into my office this afternoon…
...this is the scene you'd see playing out.
View ArticleStages of numerical modeling
I'm currently working on some modeling for my thesis. For unrelated reasons, I happened to read a description of the Kübler-Ross model for stages of grief, and I realized that the cycle actually...
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:
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