Sunday, June 27, 2010

Goldschmidt paleoblogging- the science

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As a commercial exhibitor, I spent most of my time in the booth, fixing the internet and talking to potential customers. And when I did go ...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Goldschmidt paleoblogging- the business

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The reason that we go to conferences is to sell mass spectrometers. I will not go into the confidential nature of sales, but the overall ex...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Goldschmidt paleoblogging

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I had been planning on live blogging the Goldschmidt conference. It was up there on my to-do list with world peace, ending hunger, and savi...
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Thursday, June 03, 2010

Ten reasons why nuking the oil vent is a bad idea

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1. Some rock types common to Gulf oil deposits, like salt, don’t fuse into rock when heated- they just melt, become radioactive, and then re...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Where on (Google) Earth? #204

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Nic, who does not yet have a blog, has asked me to post the following image for Where on (Google) Earth number 204. I'm going to assume...
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Jam

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Our home among the gum trees, has lots of plum trees. So I made jam. Dark is normal plum, orange is blood plum. It passed the time while wa...
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Sunday, May 09, 2010

I'm a sheltered geologist

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A while back, I was talking to some geologists, whose first language is not English, and who do a lot of work in Africa. They were concentr...
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Friday, May 07, 2010

Where on (Google) Earth #203

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I'll be honest: I don't know a thing about this place. Back when WoGE was young and I was competative about it, I teed up a whole b...
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