June 2010

Day 64 Marty Feldman Overturns Drilling Moratorium

June 22, 2010

This AM: Judge blocks Gulf offshore drilling moratorium; White House will appeal I wondered, “There are judges in Louisiana and Texas who don’t have to recuse themselves from oil spill cases because of conflicts of interest?” This PM: Judge who overturned drilling moratorium reported owning stock in drilling companies I have to highlight Jeffrey’s reaction to [...]

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Gas Land

June 22, 2010

Oil and gas. I can’t seem to get away from the stuff. My mother once joked that it is in my blood. I was born in a land made obscenely rich by massive oil finds, started out wanting to be a doctor or architect but ended up seduced by rocks and working in the oil [...]

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Day 60 Until It’s Gone

June 18, 2010

I think of Gulf oysters now and start to fret and crave them more than ever before. For someone who would get nausea on the mere mention of fish and shellfish as a child, raw oysters with hot sauce and fried oyster po’ boys are now a sublime delicacy and this is thanks to the [...]

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Women In Science … Again – Reading List

June 17, 2010

Continuing to think on my post on the recent New York Times article on women in science and responses to it by women scientists, I quickly emailed a tenured geoscience professor friend asking her opinions on the topic. A pioneer in her field of study, this professor is also very active in professional societies as well [...]

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Roundup

June 17, 2010

Which I used on the large prickly weeds last evening because I was so sick of having to dig the replicating f**kers out every single day and almost hosed my foot down with the stuff and worried that my kids will be born with their livers outside their bodies and … Anyway, on with the [...]

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Bloomsday

June 16, 2010

So there D and I are, getting soused beneath this beautiful stained glass dome in Dublin’s Davy Byrne’s Pub. The landlord looks over at us. – Leopold Bloom had a meal here, you know. You missed ReJoyce Dublin 2004 by a few months. – Oh, say we. Download Ulysses for free from Project Gutenberg. Tweet

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Day 57 BP’s “Nightmare” Well

June 15, 2010

Wired | BP’s ‘Nightmare’ Well: Internal Documents Uncover Negligence In addition to BP’s decision not to use a liner, the committee’s letter describes four other examples of risky negligence. Five big corners were cut. But, “accidents happen,” right? They weren’t kidding about the MC252 well being a nightmare. The ship that was collecting oil via [...]

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Day 57 Links

June 15, 2010

* Tweet of the day from @TheOilDrum: “As we said weeks ago, BP should run this like Mission Control @NASA - not like an exclusive country club function.” * Now following WDSU reporter Scott Walker’s blog. He verifies (with video proof) that media presence is deterred at clean-up sites by “security” despite orders to the contrary from above: Today [...]

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Women In Science … Again

June 14, 2010

Maggie Koerth-Baker of BoingBoing has compiled four excellent responses to John Tierney’s two-parter for the New York Times on women in science. The response pieces are written by – wait for it – women in science. I encourage you to read all of these well-argued perspectives. As a female scientist myself, I’m puzzled at society’s [...]

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