Author Archives: Chris Rowan

The limits of monomaniacal workaholism

I’ve spent most of the last three days camped in front of a scanning electron microscope, looking at lots of evil iron sulphides. And when I say ‘most’, I really do mean ‘most’. The problem when you want access to … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, in the lab

Geopuzzle #12 (finally) revisited

The answer? I dunno…
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Categories: Archean, geology, geopuzzling, past worlds

Fire!

I walked into work today under a beautiful, cloudless, sky – until I looked in the direction of the UJ campus, where an ugly black cloud was accumulating in the direction of the building that houses the Geology department. It … Continue reading

Categories: academic life, bloggery

How long is a postdoc?

How long is a piece of string?
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Categories: academic life

Geology: the (almost) musical

Whilst reading through the song–related submissions to the current, geo-arty edition of the Accretionary Wedge, my mind was cast back to my dim and distant undergrad days, when no field trip was complete without sem-drunken final evening entertainments, and the … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, geology, tectonics