Maria Brumm has a Master's degree... in Science! She wrote her thesis on 
This month's edition of the Accretionary Wedge is up at Magma Cum Laude, covering:
How Hollywood manages to screw up, in movie and/or TV form, the science that it took me multiple years, pints of blood and continuing therapy sessions to learn, and why I can't be held legally responsible for my reaction when the students in my intro classes spout it back at me on exams.
And once again, I am not in it. But still, you should go read! See especially the quote Zoltan pulled from a review of There Will Be Blood:
The fact is, Plainview is barely human to begin with, so watching him grow coarser and uglier and more full of himself seems a theme more suited to a geologist than a storyteller
... I think we've all just been insulted.
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Posted by: BrianR | March 24, 2008 11:29 PM
The title of this post reminds me of a joking comment I made the other day. The conversation concerned improbable demises and I said that I would like to go by taking laziness to the ultimate degree and being subducted to death.
Posted by: clem | March 25, 2008 2:15 AM
Clem's comment makes me think about how blueschist exhumation could make high-pressure metamorphic rocks into geologic zombies.
And, yes, we've definitely been insulted.
Posted by: Kim | March 25, 2008 8:38 AM
it is true that Daniel-Day Lewis takes well to the overbearing, excessively violent father-figure role -- he also did this in Gangs of New York.
Posted by: patrick | March 27, 2008 4:03 PM