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Hiking A Batholith

May 8, 2012
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Batholith. I love that word. It is a portmanteau of “depth” (bathos) and “rock” (lithos), literally meaning “deep rock,” but sounds like you’re trying to say “basilisk” after having burned your tongue on hot coffee. On Sunday, Racy of the Racy Mind, VirgoTex (whom you all know by now as she who puts the Town [...]

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Of Booth Babes and Female (Geo)scientists

May 4, 2012

For posterity and your convenience, I’ve storified the recent discussion a bunch of us geoscientists on Twitter had that started with conference “booth babes” and inevitably led to the advances of and roadblocks for female (geo)scientists. Use at will. (Oh, has anyone figured out how to edit a Storify? Can you?) Tweet

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The Future Of (Geo)Science Careers – Putting The Pieces Together

April 27, 2012
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In the latest American Association of Petroleum Geologists Explorer, geology professor Sharon Mosher offers some great insight into the future of our profession at a time when fewer students are graduating with geology degrees* while the industry need for geoscientists is at an all-time high. “There’s still a tendency to emphasize field work and travel, [...]

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Charles Richter’s 112th Birthday

April 26, 2012

In honor of this day, I give you two simple and great online tutorials on geophysical principles and refraction seismology. There will be a quiz. Tweet

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I Am A Balloon

April 24, 2012
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Allergies. Tree, weed and grass allergies. They threaten to turn into colds and bronchitis, but the main treachery is the woozy head. That ideas, sentences and decisions come out of me but I am not the one making them. Hate that feeling of not being in control while things miraculously get done (for varying values [...]

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Pelican In Flight Over Galveston Bay

April 20, 2012
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The Chicks Are Angry, Part 1

April 17, 2012
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As an (over-)analytical, career, married and childless woman progressing in a mostly desirable career path, I feel compelled to dissect some of the legislation coming out of the escalating Republican War on Women. First, we frame. Is the goal here marginalizing women because God said Men First!, increasing what is believed to be a dwindling [...]

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From The Director Of “spOILed”

April 6, 2012

I was mailed this by an oil industry colleague with whom I share many views on how energy is made and its future. spOILed is yet another documentary/film making the rounds following the rise of domestic onshore shale gas drilling, especially in the northeast United States shale trends. Its director, Mark Mathis, outlines his motives [...]

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Houston, We Have Dosai

April 4, 2012
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Thanks to my brand spanking new Ultra Pride+ wet grinder and mom’s dosai batter recipe. It’s 4 cups of Ponni parboiled rice to one cup of urad dal; don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Tweet

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Trayvon Martin

March 22, 2012

The injustice is not that his killer is not black. Nor does justice lie in that George Zimmerman is not white. You don’t have to be white to act from a place of irrationality and strange fears. Justice and injustice lie in the aftermath. This is why I ask friends and members of my own [...]

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