Sunday, March 29, 2015

Geosonnet 27

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Selenium is sulfur’s sober mate, Not lost to vapor bubbles of the mind In rock or water, should one saturate They stay together, best...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Taking a PhD into the real world

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Here in Canberra , the “ Science meets Parliament ” event is running.  I am not attending- the luminaries and power players can do their th...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Adventures in Open Access publishing

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 There is not a lot of diversity in the journals geochemists, geochronologists and hard-rock petrologists traditionally publish in.  Precam...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Geosonnet 26

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A fibrous rock which lodges in the lung, Inhaling wisps of amphibole can kill. While chrysotile's damp mantle story's sung Asbest...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Twenty-five sonnets over 4 billion years

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For the last 6 months, I’ve been summarizing research articles from the high profile academic journal Geology in sonnet form; trying to dis...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Geosonnet 25

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The Earth once had a frozen shell of ice encasing oceans, land, from pole to pole. The mystery: what process could suffice To kiss Snow W...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Geosonnet 24

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The linear progressions we assume sphericalize our precious holy cows the certainty simplicities presume breed dreamt-up facts we dutiful...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Blog hiatus

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So, I broke my ankle back in October, and after surgery and as a result, work and parenting has sucked up pretty much all of my time. And t...