Maria Brumm has a Master's degree... in Earth Science! She lives in Seattle, WA, where she works in environmental consulting.
- Telling 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 buy it immediately, but fortunately for my wallet I got stuck nitpicking the weird clastic dikes. Callan Bentley has more about why it is a wholly unrealistic piece of art.
- Global warming skeptics claim Patriots win Superbowl "Common sense demands that a team which makes up less than 0.05% of the population of Hudson County can't possibly be responsible for upsetting the greatest sports franchise on Earth."
- More on medical geophagy in chimps: montmorillonite clay and the origins of life -- Chimpanzees eat clay because it catalyzes biochemical reactions to fight malaria. The chimps in this study were eating mainly kaolinite - I wonder if they would display a preference if given a choice between different clay mineralogies.
- Blogging on Pseudoscientific Douchebags An icon (and maybe someday an aggregation service) I can endorse!
- Justice Department to Treat Gay Employee Group Equally Hey, look at that! The Attorney General did something that doesn't make me want to throw a rock at my computer!
- California Solar Power History -- A neat Google Maps widget that shows the takeoff in solar power in California in the last 8 years. If you know your San Francisco area geography, check out the difference between Berkeley and Oakland, and contemplate tax incentives.
I've decided to buy the stratigraphy t-shirt after all. This will actually be the first piece of previously-unworn non-sock/bra/underwear clothing that I've purchased for myself since... uh... I can't remember. Probably sometime in 2004. I'm not what you'd call a fashionista, but I am occasionally a sucker for geekwear.
Wait! No! I bought some tank tops last summer. Anyway, Threadless offers store credit to people who successfully spam their friends. So if you are a Threadless regular, please spam me with an invitation to buy that t-shirt.
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What's wrong with the T-shirt isn't so much the clastic dikes but the angular unconformity underneath the limestone. Sorry, that can't happen in the non-creationist universe!
Posted by: Andrew | February 6, 2008 8:22 PM
You're right, of course, but I'm fixated on hydrofracturing right now for other reasons, so that's where my attention went and got stuck.
Posted by: Maria Brumm | February 6, 2008 8:26 PM
Hi there,
I just wanted to say "thanks" for the all-important ScienceBlogger endorsement of Blogging on PseudoScientific DoucheBags. The site is up with plans to go live on Feb 12. In the meantime, if anyone has any ideas/suggestions, head on over and put in your $0.02.
Posted by: Mister DNA | February 8, 2008 6:56 AM
Thanks for the link for our Solar Power History map. If you have any other things that you think would be helpful on a google map mashup, let us know!
Posted by: Danny Vo | February 21, 2008 4:16 PM