Volcanic ash: you can't avoid if you can't detect it
Category: ranting
"we have got a storm scope and weather radar and they were looking straight through it."
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:35 AM • 21 Comments •
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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Category: ranting
"we have got a storm scope and weather radar and they were looking straight through it."
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:35 AM • 21 Comments •
Category: general science
I'd prefer churnalism to gratuitous insertion of wrong.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:50 AM • 24 Comments •
Category: public science
UK government sacks a scientific advisor for saying that 'evidence-based' drugs classification not supported by evidence.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:07 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Registration is now open for ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual science communicators conference, being held January 14-17 next year in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. Please join us for this free (but donations are accepted) three-day event...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:20 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: conferences
Does it work? Can it work?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:50 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Completely out of the blue, I've asked to participate in a discussion on natural disasters on the BBC World Service. The topic is presumably prompted by the two recent large earthquakes near Samoa and Indonesia, and it seems they...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:29 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: public science
Bloggers get together and get excited about webby stuff.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:20 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: bloggery
Effective learning through the medium of Johnny Cash?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:30 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: public science
It's about more than passing tests - if we do it right.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: ranting
breathless reporting from the AAAS conference is starting to annoy me.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 7 Comments •
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