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Earth-like Planet: March 2012
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Sunday, March 25, 2012. Absurd Attack on College Professors in Wash. Post. An article in the Washington Post has one of the most ridiculous attacks on college professors. I've ever seen. The argument basically says us college professors don't work hard enough for the money we make. Which is infuriatingly obtuse. So let's take a closer look, starting with this quote below:. One of the first steps o...
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Earth-like Planet: January 2012
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Monday, January 30, 2012. Accretionary Wedge #42: Countertop Geology. This time around it's volcanoclast sending out the call for posts for this round of the Accretionary Wedge. Asking geobloggers about countertop geology. Because pretty much everyone knows that the best countertops in a kitchen or bathroom are made of granite. or are they? And here's a cropped, zoomed in version. Accretionary Wed...
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Earth-like Planet: Get it right on gas
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Thursday, August 9, 2012. Get it right on gas. This link is a couple of days old now - but that's OK, because this came out the same day that Curiosity landed on Mars. So it was a bit overshadowed, you might say. Friedman wrote an op-ed in the NY Times about the importance of the natural gas boom. If we don't, then problems like leaky gas pipes could possibly offset the gains. We need proper proce...
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Earth-like Planet: Google+ at ScienceOnline
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Saturday, February 2, 2013. In my last post, I introduced the new Geoscience Community on Google . Here, I'd like to point folks to a recent talk by Fraser Cain about Google at the ScienceOnline Conference. Is an astronomy enthusiast, blogger, publisher of Universe Today. S geology office hours, but they've not yet really caught on. I'd love to see geos use them as effectively for Earth Scienc...
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Earth-like Planet: September 2012
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Mineral Fail in Stargate Universe. But a TV show about science fiction ought to be able to get this right as well, and be able to discuss minerals and other basic chemical compounds correctly. Looks like gypsum.". That would be good.". We're looking for calcium carbonate.". Gypsum is calcium sulfate, which is 36% calcium carbonate.". It's a desert.". The water may be go...
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Earth-like Planet: Geoscience Community on Google+
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Sunday, January 27, 2013. Geoscience Community on Google. Back in early December, Google unveiled a new way of interacting online called "Communities". The primary idea is to connect with others who share a common interest. They are similar to a lot of various internet groups, but being designed with the G platform they allow for a lot of useful and interesting ways to share content. 160;Im a big ...
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Earth-like Planet: January 2013
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Sunday, January 27, 2013. Geoscience Community on Google. Back in early December, Google unveiled a new way of interacting online called "Communities". The primary idea is to connect with others who share a common interest. They are similar to a lot of various internet groups, but being designed with the G platform they allow for a lot of useful and interesting ways to share content. 160;Im a big ...
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Earth-like Planet: Mineral Fail in Stargate Universe
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Mineral Fail in Stargate Universe. But a TV show about science fiction ought to be able to get this right as well, and be able to discuss minerals and other basic chemical compounds correctly. Looks like gypsum.". That would be good.". We're looking for calcium carbonate.". Gypsum is calcium sulfate, which is 36% calcium carbonate.". It's a desert.". The water may be go...
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Earth-like Planet: February 2012
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Geoscience news and issues on planet Earth, as well as anything else geological I feel like yabbering about. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Teaching Climate Change II - What effect? So I've yet to return to this topic after my first opening post, but eventually I'll get back there. This evening, I came across an article on the USA today website that basically says that politicians drive what Americans think about climate change. Sorry I made you shudder there. I can only hope. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
