Saturday, October 26, 2013

Carbonado, the diamond that looks like pizza.

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I like to horrify current and recent students by telling them that I spent a month of my PhD figuring out what sort of film to use for bes...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Argon-Argon Dating: The Simple Version

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  Sciency Thoughts has a post up on recent high-precision 39 Ar/ 40 Ar dating of the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia .  Unfortunately he se...
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A few brief words on sexual harassment in academia

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 It appears to be sexual harassment revelations week here in the science blogosphere, so I figured I’d share a brief story. In the y...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Not much going on here

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I realize that for the last few years, this blog has been sputtering along with a low level of volume and quality. I can offer neither expla...

Harry Connolly new series Kickstarter

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In " The best book you've never read ", I mentioned that Author Harry Connolly, fantastic Urban fantasy "Circle of Enemie...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Jailbait zircons

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As the company SHRIMP driver, I do a fair bit of demonstration analyses for potential customers.  One thing that has become increasingly co...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Who actually shuts down in a shutdown

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So the government has been shut down for over a week now.  What does this mean?   NASA is shut down.  If you want to learn about the Interna...
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Sunday, October 06, 2013

How the shutdown plays in SE Asia

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I have been flying home from Korea via SE asia the last couple of days, and reading a few local newspapers.  What is happening here is that ...
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