Diets and diets

Daniel Engber has an interesting article up in Slate today about gluten-intolerance. Well, I wouldn’t call it a news article so much as a review-plus-editorial, really. But still, thoughtful and interesting.*
This article made me feel defensive. I don’t have Celiac Disease or a gluten-intolerance, but I do have an autoimmune digestive disease, and like many [...]

Sotomayor

All this whining about how being a Latina — and saying outright that she draws on that experience — prevents her from being properly objective is driving me bonkers.
I’m sure that white people and male people are so perfect that they never draw on their white and male experiences in order to understand the world [...]

July Accretionary Wedge: Inspiration

It’s time for the Accretionary Wedge! If you recall, this month’s topic is your inspiration to study geoscience.
It was really fun to read these. A lot of you guys started out loving science and even geology in particular as kids, and you just stuck with it. I admire that! Lots of others just fell into [...]

My inspiration

Time for me to answer my own question: how did I end up here?
I think I have followed a more or less classic geologist path. I had the little kid inspiration, the stage of forgetting about it because barely any earth science is taught in high schools, and then the fabulous intro teacher in college [...]

Reminder

Just a reminder that the deadline for Accretionary Wedge submissions for July is today! I’ll accept them until midnight. Thanks for all of the submissions so far! I’ll put the carnival up by the end of next week.

w00t

My fabulous friend, an other volcanista, has alerted me to this exciting news: Dr. Marcia McNutt has been nominated by President Obama as Director of the USGS!

The Department of Interior press release and her website both report many details about Dr. McNutt’s career, but I want to repeat some of them here. McNutt got her [...]

Paleoclimate students arrested

Kim at All of my Faults is passing on the news that U.S. and Brazilian students conducting paleoclimate research have been arrested in Brazil, presumably for not having all the correct paperwork, and could be held there for months to years pending trial. There is an open letter here, and you can email to co-sign [...]