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14 easy costumes that show your inner nerd 

Sure, you can go daring. You can go scary. If you’re into zombie and cat costumes, more power to ya. But if you’re still searching for your look this year, consider going geek! Especially if you’re coming out to Spirits … Continue reading

Four Physics Videos Everyone Should Watch 

I really love the fact that physicists are sharing physics so widely online. There are some fabulous videos that will blow your mind, and teachers, you really consider spending some time in class watching them. So, with that in mind, here are some of my fave videos. Being a geek, I even knew the one about tides, but I can tell you that many meteorologists do not! I still remember

Funny, Scary, Fascinating, and Geeky. What You Missed in Science This Week. 

I am going to start doing a weekend post here with links and images from the world of geek that caught my eye this week. First up is Will Marshall and the TED talk below. Data is the fuel that science runs on, and he has figured out a way to harvest a LOT of it.   Guess what body of water is the 4th fastest warming on Earth? This

Get your geek on - GeoSciML working group in Tucson developing digital data structures 

Geoscience researchers from a dozen countries have been meeting at the Lodge on the Desert in Tucson since Sunday, working on the latest developments for the geoscience markup language, GeoSciML.   We're giving them the special Arizona welcome with 108F temperatures and a Saturday night earthquake of magnitude 5.3 right after they settled into the hotel. GeoSciML has been adopted by a

It’s Geek Week On YouTube! 

In honor of geek week on YouTube, and (so that you do not have to wade through all the crazy NASA, HAARP, and Chemtrail crazies) I thought I might post a selected number of really cool videos. Number one on the hit parade is Veritasium’s six-minute fantastic explanation of how a transistor works! I’m sure you guessed that I’d have Neil deGrasse Tyson in this post. Am I the only

Tablets - the cry for the old physics Java applets 

My poor teacher friend.  He is a science and computer geek at heart, lost in a big private high school.  Every time they come up with a 'Good Idea', they smash him down.  First, they went totally MS, and he had to find a way to run Linux on sticks.  Now, it's all ipads for every one, and he's been sent away from techie stuff, since they don't like to hear him crying. He loved all those MIT

Get your geek on - GeoSciML WG formed in OGC 

The new GeoSciML SWG has officially formed at OGC.    Yahoo! This won't mean much to anyone except a tiny group of geo-geeks, but we're excited.   To translate, a standards work group (SWG) has been formed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to establish the Geoscience Mark-up Language (GeoSciML) as an open-source international standard. To put that in practical terms, Google took

All Yesterdays: Appendix 

Following on from Marc's reliably sterling report of the 'Live Spectacular' itself, this post is an appendix indeed in that it serves no real purpose whatever, but is merely my own brief, insubstantial reflection on the event. However, it does illustrate very well the level of vacuity which my contributions henceforth will consist of. You have fair warning.Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed the talk given by Darren Naish, John Conway, and C. M. Kosemen; and the book signing which followed. I [...]

The LaB 5555 launch had a serious bite: Read patron reactions and add your own! 

LaB 5555 launched Friday with the help of some 700 patrons who gathered to geek responsibly and boogie among bones for a paleontological party dubbed “Skin & Bones.” Each LaB 5555, held monthly from here on out, will feature a … Continue reading

Academics on Archosaurs: Scott Sampson 

Scott D. Sampson Specialist in ceratopsid and theropod dinosaurs, with a strong interest in the ecology and evolution of Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems 1. What first got you interested or involved in your research field? Dinosaurs and paleontology have been a lifelong interest, beginning about age 4. It’s fair to say that I was geek from

The Hobbit; animated film by Gene Deitch 

Are you geek enough? ARE YOU GEEK ENOUGH!? Totally cool… More from Amid at Cartoon Brew, including this classic quote: I should have told him to shove it, but I was basically his slave at the time. It suddenly became an insane challenge. For more about animation in service of lawyer battles, read Gene Deitsch’s full account. I think

New NASA Image Shows Tuscaloosa Tornado Path 

NASA’s Terra satellite has an instrument called ASTER, which stands for Advanced  Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer. In non-geek that means it can sense infrared and visible light (this allows areas of vegetation to  show up very well). Using multiple wavelengths, and even adding and subtracting one from another has allowed some incredible remote sensing images. The shot below has to be the top of the heap up to

TONIGHT: Can the Gulf Survive? [National Geographic] 

I like National Geographic. I enjoy reading their magazine and watching their TV channel. Whenever I go to a place with cable, I locate where the National Geographic, History, and Discovery channels are.  Yes Virginia, I am a museum geek.  But because I am also into energy, I was excited to hear about National Geographic

The Geek shall inherit the Earth [Musik] 

Hier kommt mal eine Hymne für alle Geeks auf diesem Planeten. The Geek shall inherit the Earth von Wir sind Helden. Dreist abgekupfert bei astrodicticum

[jules' pics] 12/12/2009 01:21:00 AM 

desolation, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.Tokyo university's Center for Climate System Research is located on the Kashiwa campus which is, unfortunately, not the Hongo campus. It is located about thirty minutes north of Tokyo on the "geek express" which is a special train line joining the characterless new-town-for-scientists-only of Tsukuba directly to the Akihabara Yodobashi Camera

Last call for Accretionary Wedge entries.... 

The Headless Horseman wants you to know that posting* is very important.*Yes, I did just make a horseback riding joke. I am a geek in many ways.

A geology geek to the core (Accretionary Wedge #18) 

Sitting here in Zion National Park, one of the last spots I visited on my first geology field course, I feel like I'm coming full circle to some of the reasons that I'm still doing geology. (I also feel like I could receive wifi through my teeth. Twenty plus wifi points? Really?) Anyway, it's a perfect chance for me to answer Volcanista's question:So July’s topic is about your inspiration

Buried in Twitter and Geo-terms Searching Fail 

Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I'm a geek, I've been wrapped up in a new programming project with PHP and the Twitter API. Its going to be a new feature on the Geoprac site and I'm very excited about it, but its not quite ready for prime time yet. Have you ever tried to Google a geo-term either for work or general interest and found mostly things that are completely unrelated to what your looking for? For example, try a google search for landslide. Mixed in with all the stuff of [...]

Cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems 

Peter DeCelles and colleagues from the UA Geosciences Dept have a recent paper in Nature Geoscience on cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems. As a former tectonics geek before becoming a full time paper pusher, I found this an intriguing explanation for some problematic issues.A key element of their findings is that "the western American Cordilleras display a 25–50 million year cycle

2009 Personal Goals - April Update 

3 Months in and I think I am doing ok with my goals. I am going to list all of the steps in the 3 months so that I can see the progress in one easy location.1. Finish the first draft of my fiction novel.Start of 2009 - I have the first 1/3rd of the book writtenFebruary 1st - Nothing more writtenMarch 1st - Nothing more writtenApril 1st - Nothing more written2. Drop my weight to 167lbs.Start of 2009 - I started the year at ~185February 1st - ~180March 1st - 175.2April 1st - 172.2And I have a new [...]