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Happy Deepavali

October 26, 2011

Apropos of the reason for this Hindu festival: Questions Lit Up, in which Pratap Bhanu Mehta takes on the Delhi University ban on teaching A.K. Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana and chides the Indian left and right for hijacking the culture for political gain. … The Right commits the mistake of assimilating all tradition to [...]

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National Fossil Day!

October 12, 2011

As much as I love trilobites, here is a photograph I took of pretty Missippian-age crinoids on display at the Smithsonian Museum. Ok, ok, Matt has a trilobite head for you who insist. Happy Fossil Day! Hug your favorite dead-and-preserved-in-the-rock-record critter today! Don’t forget to donate to science classrooms in honor of Earth Science week, [...]

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My Favorite Rising Tide 6 Photo

August 28, 2011

Three of the six winners of the Ashley Morris award for excellence in New Orleans blogging to date. These are phenomenal people. Ashley winners from left to right: Cliff Harris (2010), Dedra Johson (2011) and The Zombie (2009). Photo by Derek Bridges.   Tweet

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Dragonflies On Algal Bloom, Door County, Wisconsin

August 10, 2011

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L’École des Ursulines de Québec

July 24, 2011

Stumbled upon a street called Ruelle des Ursulines and you know I had to check it out. I ended up walking through the grounds of the School of the Ursulines, one of the oldest schools in North America and a UNESCO world heritage site. More pictures from the Quebec trip in this slideshow. Tweet

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Québec City Was Founded On A High Cape Of Utica Shale

July 18, 2011

Québec City sits between the Laurentian highlands of the southeastern Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains that were formed during the Taconic and Acadian orogenies. Bedrock here is the Upper Ordovician Utica shale that “overlies the predominantly shallow marine carbonate facies of the Cambrian-Ordovician St. Lawrence Platform” (or St. Lawrence lowlands).The [...]

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Court Intrigue

May 31, 2011

This is probably the best picture I took on the tectonics field trip to Utah last week, and it was with my brand spanking new iPhone. Now powered by Verizon, thank you. Created by fracture-controlled weathering of sandstone, just like the rest of the rock formations and arches of Arches National Park, this group looked [...]

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What A Couple Of Weeks

February 21, 2011

Here I sit in a friend’s living room in New Orleans with a few moments to myself. A rare luxury these days. When things happen in my life, they tend to happen all at once. 1) The Packers won the Superbowl! It all happened so fast – we went from possibly wild card to laying [...]

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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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Of Interest On January 31st, 2011

January 31, 2011

GeoTripper | The Yellowstone Media Storm: We’re All Gonna Die! Oh, Well Sure, But … … worrying about whether I’m gonna die from an eruption at Yellowstone is so far down my list of concerns that I am more worried about being gnawed to death by a pack of angry prairie dogs. It could happen, [...]

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