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Lounge of the Lab Lemming
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I was a geochemistry technician. I maintained and operated laboratory equipment used in the scientific analysis of crystalline and glassy solids. Mostly these materials are rocks, but our lab has analyzed everything from dead people to bits of the Moon. Now I work in mineral exploration.
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Blogging here is continuous on geologic timescales
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But those of you looking for subannual periodicity may be disappointed. I'm trying to finish a paper and progress has been slow. Do any of you parents or other obligatory multitaskers have useful strategies for keeping track of manuscript progress when available time is split up into 10-30 minute segments' I'm finding that by the time I figure out where I was up to the last time I was writing,
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Is it wrong...
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 2 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
To cobble together a 40 page manuscript that doesn't quite make sense, submit it to a journal under a false name and address, and recommend 3 people you really don't like to be the reviewers'
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A different take on the PepSciBlog scandal
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 2 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Much has been said of the PepSciBlog scandal, both by PepSciblings, the MSM, and the rest of the internet. I won't repeat or comment on any of those opinions. Instead, I will try to prove that corporate shilling can be useful to basic science education, by using the Pepsi logo to explain the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. Steinn should be ashamed that he didn't beat me to this.Imagine that in the
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Goldschmidt paleoblogging- the schmooze
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Of course, one of the attractions of conferences, aside from the hot science and the big deals and the free* beer, is meeting the people whose papers I read, and catching up with colleagues and friends. And the conference did not disappoint in this regard either. I met a wide variety of ion probers, most of whom were friendly and smart. And I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people who
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More on the asbestos dust-up
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Silver Fox has an excellent summary of serpentine group minerals, serpentinite rock, and the various asbestiform minerals. An even more interesting discussion has taken place on the pages of Elements magazine, the joint membership / review journal of a number of mineralogical and geochemical societies. In June 2009, Micky Gunter wrote a scathing article on how mineralogists were being left out
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In defense of serpentine
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
There is a move by asbestos activists and litigators in California to remove the status of state rock from serpentine. The language of the bill is heavy on the health effects of asbestos, particularly amphibole asbestos (which has no relation to serpentine at all). It makes some completely inaccurate statements, such as the allegation that all serpentines contain asbestos. It downplays, or
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Detrital minerals done right
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
This afternoon, I got to go listen to a talk by Andy Morton. As anyone who hangs around the geochronology scene for any length of time knows, detrital provenance studies are done often, with a wide variety of quality and rigour. The basic idea is that you can learn about the source region of a sand by looking at the individual grains. How much you learn, and what sort of study is most
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Goldschmidt paleoblogging- the science
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
As a commercial exhibitor, I spent most of my time in the booth, fixing the internet and talking to potential customers. And when I did go to sessions, they were generally directly related to ion probery. I was disappointed that more SHRIMP labs were not present in the technical development sessions, but many of the talks there were ?These are the challenges, anyone got bright ideas what to do
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Goldschmidt paleoblogging- the business
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The reason that we go to conferences is to sell mass spectrometers. I will not go into the confidential nature of sales, but the overall exhibit setup and utility is relevant, so deserves a mention.Firstly, I dropped the ball a little bit on the booth organization. We should have had more chairs, more stuffed rocks, and a stand for projecting. We generally get an internet link back to a SHRIMP
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Goldschmidt paleoblogging
From Lounge of the Lab Lemming, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I had been planning on live blogging the Goldschmidt conference. It was up there on my to-do list with world peace, ending hunger, and saving the whales. And then I started a war over whale burgers, everything blurred, and here I am on the plane home. So forget live blogging- we're geologists! Here is a paleoblog instead, to be unearthed over the next few days'The A380On the flight from
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