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Thursday Geology Picture: Cool Geologists Against Cool Geology

December 15, 2011

Basil Tikoff and Steve Marshak, my graduate and undergraduate structural geology thesis advisors respectively, at the famous Van Hise Rock in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Tweet

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Dragonflies On Algal Bloom, Door County, Wisconsin

August 10, 2011

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Green Bay Packers, Superbowl Champions

February 7, 2011

February 6, 2011, 22:10 EST – @maitri: “We won the Superbowl, Packer nation! The Lombardi trophy goes home! Titletown! Aaaaahhhhahahahaha! LOVE LOVE LOVE!” That is all. I am going to be in bed for the rest of the week watching the highlights reel over and over again. Tweet

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Someone Pinch Me

January 24, 2011

Rodgers, Shields, Matthews, Kuhn! Superstars! The defense rocked (Dom Capers, I am still naming our hypothetical son after you), but last night’s MVP was #90, The Fat Man, The Freezer: Busari Raji, Jr. To quote fellow Packer fan, Athenae, “If you like it, then you shoulda put a belt on it!” Tweet

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How ‘Bout Dem Packers?

January 19, 2011

The oldest American football rivalry is set to meet again this Sunday for the NFC championship. This is only the second time these two teams have met in the playoffs since seven days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. D is excited. He wanted us to play the Bears and he got his wish. I [...]

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Les Squeals De Noël

December 30, 2010

Just look at them. My godsons: 1) are the squishiest little booger monsters ever, 2) rock the Ramones hats we got them (that I hope they hang onto long enough to grow into), 3) are in the will for at least $50 for being fans of the “Green Packers” (makes me shed tears of godmotherly [...]

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2010 In Travel Photographs

December 21, 2010

Note: Thanks to geobloggers Silver Fox and GeoTripper for inspiring me to do this post. Check out their beautiful travel photographs, too. Tweet

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School Spirit*

December 6, 2010

We interrupt our twee Irish broadcast to talk about American college sports fans. Not that the Irish don’t love their soccer and (awesome) rugby, but this needs addressing right now. In the name of SCIENCE. Jen took PhD Comics’ recent Grad School Spirit Pop Quiz and scored 2 points. Her excuse: “I am a graduate [...]

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Teach Me How To Bucky

October 26, 2010

On nice, sunny days during high school and college at the University of Illinois, a bunch of us would take our fat slice of Garcia’s Pizza In A Pan and walk on over to the Quad to listen to Preacher Dan for lunchtime entertainment. I’d lazily peel off the extra pepperoni to munch on while [...]

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Wisconsin In The News

March 25, 2010

1. Finally, Wisconsin is recognized for something we’re really, really good at. Thanks to Nathan at Flowing Data for posting this FloatingSheep gem. Flowing Data | Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores: “Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their [...]

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