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Delicious Internet Noms
Posted by Maria Brumm on February 24, 2009 The Bacon Story — How science can make even bacon disgusting. Building a Google Earth Geology Layer — Lots of great resources accumulating in the comments here. Magma Cum Laude: Using Google Earth to visualize volcanic and seismic activity — A discussion of the different data layers available Geoblogosphere Search — Can’t remember where you…
Earth Scientists on Stamps
Posted by Maria Brumm on February 19, 2009 Following the Royal Mail’s release of some lovely new Darwin stamps, a few of us got to Twittering over lunch yesterday about the lack of geologists on this year’s release of American scientist stamps. (What’s that? You have no idea what Twittering is? It’s a stupid Web Eleventy-Point-Oh jibber-jabber service, pay no attention. If you…
Teaching Engineers to Blog?
Posted by Maria Brumm on February 17, 2009 I got a request for advice from Maryam, an old undergrad committee-comrade-in-arms, which I have mangled for clarity: To make a long story short, I’m co-teaching a communication class to engineers and I want to introduce them to science blogging. I’m planning to have them write brief essays about classic science papers (similar to the…
An Open Letter to the Environmental Geologists of the Past
Posted by Maria Brumm on February 11, 2009 Dear Environmental Geologists, Engineers, and Technical Illustrators of 20 Years Ago: Please remember that the real audience for your work – the mind-numbingly detailed technical reports over which you have slaved many hours – is not the board of petty bureaucrats who commissioned your investigation. The real audience is someone like me: A data-entry and…
Delicious Internet Noms
Posted by Maria Brumm on February 5, 2009 I finally have a day job! For a few weeks, anyway – I’m temping as a GIS monkey. While this is not functionally much different from generic office temp jobs, data entry using ArcGIS pays much better than data entry with Excel. Historically, day-jobbing has not had much effect on my blog output, but it…
2008 Flood Deposits and the Johnson County Conservation Bond
Posted by Maria Brumm on January 30, 2009 One 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 natural character and beauty of a half-written blog post and should not be considered flaws…
Breaking Up with the Richter Scale
Posted by Maria Brumm on January 29, 2009 One 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 natural character and beauty of a half-written blog post and should not be considered flaws…
Delicious Internet Noms
Posted by Maria Brumm on January 28, 2009 REMINDER: Accretionary Wedge posts due this Friday — The theme is unhinged speculation about the future Earth. Calculus: The Musical! — The concept may or may not be more charming than the execution. Sand Won’t Save You This Time — Mmm, ClF3. Plausibly Impossible: Hirotoshi Itoh’s Grinning Stones — Rocks with zippers! Planet Harddrive —…
Academic Citation
Posted by Maria Brumm on January 27, 2009 One 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 natural character and beauty of a half-written blog post and should not be considered flaws…
Does the World Really Need Another Blog Anthology?
Posted by Maria Brumm on January 26, 2009 In addition to helping judge this year’s Open Laboratory science blogging anthology, I’m also the production editor (i.e., typesetting jockey). So as I go through, reading the entries in much greater detail than I ever would otherwise, I’m noticing a couple of things: All of the pieces are either about biology, or professional “life in…