Hat tip to Bloggers Blog for the pointer that the CBC’s great science show Quirks and Quarks is blogging! I can’t wait for more entries. QnQ was also one of the first national radio programs to re-publish the week’s episodes as MP3s in a podcast feed. Welcome to the club gang!
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The folks over at ScienceBlogs are having a nerd-off. Well, I see a challenge when read one. Nerdy? Oh let me count the ways…
I have a rock hammer with my name engraved on it.
I write with fountain pens
All the tee shirts I wear have something written on them
99% of the above, are computer related
The remaining 1% are: my Colby Geology shirt, my Colby Woodsman’s Team shirt, my Mickey Mouse shirt
I’m wearing a blogging shirt right now
I injured my knee playing football, during practice. Stop laughing I did play football
I know Latin
Have studied two additional languages (German and Spanish)
I can do …read more
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One of the things in my top ten list today was my engraved rock hammer. Hsien left a comment about it, but I thought I should elaborate a bit more. It needs a little back story.
If you’ve been following this blog from the beginning you know that this blog is dedicated to my Dad and Dr. Bob Nelson (who was my Geology advisor and mentor). So what’s the deal here, why is this hunk of steel (it’s all steel) so important to me? Like I said in my comment, it was tradition in the Geology Department for the department to …read more
It’s the 7th of the month so it must but channel theme day here on Sci-Health.. Our uber-blogger Christina has the list up already. Now being the only Sci-Health blogging who lives on the West Coast and didn’t write their post ahead of time, I’m a little behind. I did start this last night. I got three down before my brain called it quits. … in no particular order (read: this is the order they came out of my head), The Top 10 Things I love about science:
The world is an amazing place
Ockham’s Razor is usually true
Rocks are cool (thanks …read more
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