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A Girl Named Galena
Galena (Lead Sulfide) Crystals I met a little girl named Galena the other day. I was surprised at her name, which is also the name of a common, shiny, silver mineral. The young girl was about ten years old and knew all about the mineral after which she was named. Apparently, her mother is a geologist who now teaches Middle…
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How tight should a t-shirt be?
One of the things I’ve always struggled with as a woman in a field where girls are rare (entomology) is just how girly I should be. Now, anyone who’s actually met me is probably thinking this isn’t much of a struggle–I mean, I do have 3 times the number of power tools than the average guy, and I am seen…
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Post-Exams and Pirates
My finals ended two days ago, and I’m still in my recovery period. I slept in until noon, ate junk food all day, and watched four episodes of “CSI: Miami” as well as other mediocre television that I can only tolerate after wearing out my brain. I can’t believe I actually watched an episode of “Laguna Beach” today. This show…
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Out for the weekend…
I’ve received a lot of great e-mails lately, including people tipping me off to interesting science news, people offering kudos on the video, and people offering to convert me because of the video. I read and enjoy all of them, but haven’t had much time for replying lately. Sorry about that! I’m about to jet off to see my family…
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You are an MIT student!
I don’t have much time to write today as I have a math final tomorrow and plan to spend a few more hours immersed in Prof. Strang’s Linear Algebra textbook. However, I thought I’d at least mention that I found Time Magazine’s selection of you as person of the year interesting and quite appropriate, in many ways. I certainly fit…
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The Elusive Househusband
My advisor here at MIT is white, male, and close to seventy. He’s one of the top geochemists in his field and has a great amount of knowledge to share with me and his other grad student, a seventh year (male, Chinese) student who will be graduating this year. In all likelihood, I’ll be my advisor’s last PhD student. At…
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Just another religion.
First of all, let it be known that sometimes, I’m sure I work for the Best Company Ever. Granted, last week I wanted the entire workforce to die in various creatively horrific ways, but that’s just the nature of what I do. Sometimes I spend 10 hours a day writing copy and trying not to go insane, and other times…
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Sylvia Browne, audio
Just a heads up, I’ve added the audio file to compliment the transcript of Sylvia Browne’s cold reading, linked at the bottom of the previous post.
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