Monthly Archives: May 2007

Lusi flows on

The latest from Lusi It’s been a couple of months since I’ve posted about Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, mainly because I hadn’t found anything significant to report. Sadly, in this case, it seems that no news was bad news, … Continue reading

Categories: geohazards, Lusi

Tony Blair liked science, but he didn’t understand it

Why an interview with Tony Blair about science was so very disappointing
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Categories: public science, ranting

Bumpy ice: proof of a Martian water cycle?

Some interesting data from Mars Odyssey about the distribution of sub-surface ice on Mars were published in Nature last week by Joshua Bandfield at Arizona State University (see also here and here). Mars Odyssey had already detected the presence of … Continue reading

Categories: geophysics, paper reviews, planets

To PhD and beyond!

A view from the bottom of the academic food chain.
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Categories: academic life

Know thy co-ordinate system

Even the best measurements are meaningless if you muck up your corrections
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Categories: geology, geophysics