- The Bacon Story -- How science can make even bacon disgusting.
- Building a Google Earth Geology Layer -- Lots of great resources accumulating in the comments here.
- Magma Cum Laude: Using Google Earth to visualize volcanic and seismic activity -- A discussion of the different data layers available
- Geoblogosphere Search -- Can't remember where you saw that awesome geology blog post? Ron Schott has put together a handy custom Google search just for you.
- Grow Your Own Bismuth Crystals -- Bismuth seems to go for about $15/lb. online, and you can melt it on a household stove. Bismuth photo credit: cobalt123.
- Burtynsky: Resource Extraction -- Haunting photographs of modern industry.
- Geoscience-Related Investments in the Stimulus Package -- Where is the zillion dollars allocated specifically for geology bloggers, huh?!? (via Arizona Geology)
- Carnival of Space — Valentine’s Day Edition
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Ken grows crystals. Specifically, he grows free-standing crystals made of bismuth, a metal resembling lead.
We mostly like being right, but we sometimes wish we weren't.
The bedrock under our neighbourhood contains small amounts of uranium. It's an unstable chemical element that is subject to radioactive decay.
"As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d stay away." -Hughes Mearns