Sunday, August 29, 2010

Erratum

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Please excuse me while I die from embarrassment, but I have had to append an erratum to my previous post . Whether this rises to the level...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Tourmaline vs. the bomb

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OK, loyal readers, it is Saturday night, and those of you without small children should be out watching action movies or something. If you ...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The etiquette of reviewer suggestion

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When submitting manuscripts to many journals, there is an opportunity to suggest reviewers for the manuscript. I have found that failure to...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Laser pointer IR hazard

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There is a recent technical note from NIST out describing potential IR hazards from off-the-shelf green laser pointers. It makes use of th...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Cordierite

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Cordierite is a high temperature metamorphic magnesium-aluminosilicate. It is interesting because it contains no water in its structure, bu...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Nicest reply to critical comment ever...

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is from Shao-Yong Jiang, G eochemical Journal 40, 639-641, 2006 . (.pdf link) From his conclusion: Erroneous data with extremely low δ11B va...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Blogging here is continuous on geologic timescales

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But those of you looking for subannual periodicity may be disappointed. I'm trying to finish a paper and progress has been slow. Do an...
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Is it wrong...

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To cobble together a 40 page manuscript that doesn't quite make sense, submit it to a journal under a false name and address, and recomm...
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