Hallo und willkommen auf meinem Blog! Ich studiere Geophysik und Geologie. Auf dieser Seite schreibe ich über alles, was mich interessiert - von aktuellen Ereignissen aus meinen Fachgebieten, über Wissenschaft und Unwissenschaft an sich, Politik, Gesellschaft, Medien, Technik,, Netzkultur, kurz gesagt: so ziemlich alles.
Der Name "And the Water Seems Inviting" kommt von dem Astronom und Autor Carl Sagan, welcher 1978 eine Fernsehserie namens "Cosmos" produzierte und moderierte. Die Reihe gilt nicht zuletzt aufgrund Sagans poetischer Sprache als eine der Perlen des Wissenschaftsfernsehens. In dem Programm taucht auch der Satz auf, den ich als Blogtitel wählte:
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little way up - and the water seems inviting
Entdeckt: Ein “übersehener” Galaxienhaufen
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Einen der ersten Galaxienhaufen des Universums hat eine internationale
Astronomengruppe aufgespürt. Das immense Objekt ist rund 10,5 Milliarden
Lichtjahre ...
Das Space Shuttle fliegt wieder!
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Im Blog der Galaktischen Blöderation (trotz des Namens gibt es dort sehr
lesenswerte Artikel ;) ) wurde heute ein Artikel über Hobbyastronomenveröffentlic...
West airliners remain a high class operation
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Article
*The industry’s global accident rate in 2011 in which an aircraft is
destroyed or substantially damaged was 0.37, or the equivalent of one
acciden...
Labors of the Hercules Cluster | Bad Astronomy
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We live in the Milky Way galaxy, a collection of more than a hundred
billion stars forming a flat, spiral disk. Our galaxy is in turn part of a
small gro...
I get email
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Those Australians…they recently ran a segment on their Dateline program
featuring their fellow Australian Ken Ham and the Creation "Museum", which
includ...
Last Call: $2000 Undergrad Field Camp Scholarships
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GSA and ExxonMobil are excited to announce the second annual award for
undergraduate students to attend summer field camp. 17 students will be
awarded $2,0...
Kommt, ich hau sie raus!
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Ein Schlüsselanhänger in Sargform? Nein, auf einem Bein kann man nicht
stehen. Ich verlose jetzt also zwei von den Dingern. Einen verlose ich
unter allen...
RoboCup: AutonOHM aus Nürnberg
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In einer kleinen Reihe zum RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg stelle ich
einige der Teams der Rescue-Liga vor, diesmal das Team AutonOHM von der
Georg-Simo...
Tree rings, volcanoes and climate
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Is dendrochronology always a reliable guide to past climatic variations?
And apropos the theory that large volcanic eruptions in the latter half of
the thi...
Which illusion is best?
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I am off to Helsinki today to promote Paranormality. If you see me around,
please wave. Meanwhile, here are two very nice illusions (from @user24 and
@thr...
Ein animiertes Märchen zu Aberglauben – reinschauen!
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Der englischsprachige Skeptoid-Blog von Brian Dunning feiert seine 300.
Ausgabe. Und er schenkt sich und den Lesern ein wunderbares Märchen.
Hauptfigur ist...
Tools for Fossiling
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I have signed up for something new to me: a day's digging in the famous Sharktooth
Hill locality near Bakersfield, California. It may seem odd that somebo...
Daily Geology Photos – March 6
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A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.”
Displayed below are 74 geology-related photos were added to flickr today.
Similar Posts ...
Darwin's 'big coral atoll idea'
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When Darwin sailed round the world on the ‘Beagle’ in the 1830s he noticed
small islands made of low circular coral reefs like those in the photo.
These c...
SKEPTIKER 1/2012: Außerkörperliches …
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(gwup) Druckfrisch im GWUP-Shop: Im SKEPTIKER1/2012 berichtet der
Neurowissenschaftler Peter Brugger, was die Hirnforschung über
außerkörperliche Erfahrung...
Do GREs matter?
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Almost all of the grad schools I applied to required GRE scores. I never
got the impression that my scores mattered all that much, but perhaps I am
project...
Update vom 05.03.2012
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Gestern hat sich am Neuen Südostkrater ein weiterer Paroxysmus ereignet. Er
war kürzer aber auch deutlich heftiger als die letzte eruptive Phase und
mit de...
How Fake Skeptics Fool Themselves, part 3
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Jeff Condon seems unhappy with me. Enough to blog about it. And Anthony
Watts cross-posts. But what I’d really like to discuss is yet another way
in which ...
The Lament Of An Indian Geologist
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In Current Science K.S. Valdiya lets out an impassioned cry (open access)
for recognition and a higher status for the field of geology in India:
The geol...
White Sands Gypsum Desert
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Most sand deserts consist of quartz sand, but White Sands has got its name
because its main constituent is (white) gypsum. Normally desert sand
becomes ext...
Got Geologic maps?
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I am interested in obtaining some used/torn/brittle/old/new/or
no-longer-needed geologic maps (or even topos). Does anyone have any they
would like to get ...
Datengrundlage der Lausitzkommission
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Heute bei der Diskussion zu Prof. Knopps Vortrag („Rechtliche Konsequenzen
einer Neugründung für die Hochschule und die Einzelnen“) erwähnte der
Kanzler no...
Ways and Means
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Accretionary Wedge #43 has the theme of “my favorite geological
illustration.” Hollis chose this theme at my urging based on her post about
one of the spec...
AW 43, your favorite geology illustrations
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In the Company of Plants and Rocks is hosting this month's Accretionary
Wedge and it is all about geologic illustrations.
All types of geological illustrat...
Leap Day Soft Sediment Deformation!
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Pretty busy here...lots o' writtin', lots o' workin', and even a little bit
o' thinkin' going on. Anyway, I really just wanted to grab a Leap Day
post, so...
Extensional grabens in our shrinking Moon
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*The largest of the observed grabens with the*
* Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the LRO spacecraft. *
*It is about 500 m wide, and nearly 20 m deep. *
*(Credi...
Patagonia field work — Update #5
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An update from down south. Field work is going well, the weather has
actually been quite wonderful. We’ve had multiple days in a row of
near-perfect field ...
Modelle mit Beobachtungen vergleichen
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Von interessierter Seite wird oft behauptet, daß die Modelle, mit denen
Klimaprojektionen berechnet werden, nicht zuverlässig seien. Diese
Behauptung kann ...
Geology and Geography Careers
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Interests That Can Lead to a Variety of Careers Having a healthy interest
in geology or geography is a positive focus. Children and teens who express
such...
Accretionary Wedge #42 : Countertop Geology
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On a brief parole from grading gaol … Ian Saginor over at Volcanoclast is
hosting this month’s accretionary wedge on the topic of countertop geology.
As wi...
Seismologists Watch the Line
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Seismologists are a special breed because, basically, all we do is watch the line. Any resemblance to the similar-sounding song by Johnny Cash is strongly in...
Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten! Feliz Navidad!
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Allen ein fröhliches und besinnliches Weihnachtsfest!
A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, enjoy the free days!
Feliz Navidad a todos mis amigos en todo...
Feuerbringer ist umgezogen
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Dieser Blog wird an anderer Stelle weitergeführt, nämlich als Feuerbringer
Magazin unter der folgenden URL: http://www.feuerbringer-magazin.de Ich
möchte d...
Test Post
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I haven't been able to get any Blogger pages to load for at least the last
two days- not even my own blog. Twitter inquiries lead me to believe this
is jus...
The River That Looks Like a Signature
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I haven't posted on here in a long time ... I don't know why, I love this
site. I've actually been using it for my class. Maybe this will get me
posting ...
Seismic swarm at Iceland's Katla
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Well, Jon Frimann has been noticing this for the past week or so, but the
increased seismicity at Iceland's Katla has finally begun to show up in the
mains...
New URL for this blog
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Earlier this morning, I have moved my blog over to the Scientific American
site - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/. Follow
me...
RE: Back to the field...
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Almost a year blogging hiatus. I just don't find the time to write
sophisticated blog posts on things that are interesting enough. The last
year has been p...
In eigener Sache: Erst mal Blogpause
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Ich muss eine Blogpause machen. Zum Glück gibt es hier ja genügend Autoren,
die Euch zwischenzeitlich bei Laune halten werden. Bis (hoffentlich) in ein
p...
AGU monday 12/13
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Being at AGU reminds me that it's almost the solstice, and that the short days are coming to an end.I went to John Holdren's lecture at lunchtime today. It w...
The volcano Gatekeeper
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One of the sad - but not unexpected - stories to come from the eruption at
Mount Merapi concerns the death of the "Gatekeeper" of the volcano, Mbah
Marijan...
Saltation
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[image: A post by Chris Rowan][image: A post by Anne Jefferson]The winds of
change have caught a-hold of our little blog, cast it out into the wider
inte...
Weathered stylolites in Silurian limestone
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We discover a weathered stylolite zone along outcrop bluffs of sub-Lockport
Silurian limestone.
Stylolites in three dimensions, upper, lower, and intermedi...
Blog vacation
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My mother noticed that I hadn't been blogging much lately. That's true - in
fact, I made a New Year's Resolution to stop blogging, at least for the
semeste...
I-40 rock slide cleanup to cost up to $10 million.
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Engineers have established a $2 million to $10 million plan to clean up a
rock slide on Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee line. The
state Dep...
Summer Field Work #2
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The Kohm-Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center opened in October 2008. It is a
beautiful new building that replaced the Lassen Chalet. The building is of
green constr...
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