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I'm a geochemist. My main interest is in-situ mass spectrometry, but I have a soft spot in my heart for thermodynamics, poetry, drillers, trees, bicycles, and cosmochemistry.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Geology Sonnet 6

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Nobody studies fucking iodine. The halogen too rare for us to care, But iodate to carbonate’s inclined So we might have a useful prox...

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Geology Sonnet 5

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Australia is a dry and stable land. No mountain range, no active slipping fault, And yet this plain had lava seas erupt. We call the...

Friday, August 22, 2014

How many?

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"Sand people always ride single file, to hide their numbers."

Geology Sonnet 4

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Enough with carbon, climate variation Let’s look at rocks from a far older time, Which lacked much copper mineralization, And when an...

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Geology Sonnet 3

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Science week geology sonnet number three! See previous posts for background. A pox on all those proxies non-unique Which make interpr...

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Geology Sonnet 2

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As mentioned previously, I am writing Geology Sonnets for National Science Week . These are articles from the high-profile scientific journ...

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Geology Sonnets!

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Here in Australia , it is National Science Week , and I have been surprised and delighted at the bizarre and creative ways that many people...

Friday, August 15, 2014

Indian e-commerce

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On my recent trip to India , one of the big stories in the newspaper was the rise of consumer good e-commerce. Flipkart, an Indian company...

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