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Professor @ Denison University / Volcanologist / Writer of Eruptions / Baseball, Sumo, Cricket, Soccer fan / Sci Fi aficionado / Amateur Musicologist / Cat person / Dad / Be kind to your bad self. 🇨🇴
Weird chart. What happened in 2025 in the US? Did political leadership change and then start systematically dismantling education, science, health care, and government, levying arbitrary tariffs, randomly attacking major US cities, and destroying the economy?
Just asking.
$2.79 > $3.49 here east of Columbus.
Do I need to follow you around?
Ah yes, Edward I's army versus William Wallace's.
I saw Everclear play the quad in front of the student union at Oregon State during a 2000 "Rock the Vote" show.
I would counter that special equipment is needed to burn off the heavy overcast in Ohio.
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Raspberry Shake waveform and frequency for the M4.1 Nebraska earthquake on 3/1/2026 measured in Granville, OH.
Today's Nebraska M4.1 earthquake on Denison's Raspberry Shake. Nice signal from ~1,350 kilometres away.
Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.
I do hate how often I have to post this, but no song helps me refocus when the world has gone mad than this: youtu.be/qbikab-cJD0?...
It doesn't help that Dr. Beckett and Dr. Fraiser were two of my favourites in their respective series.
Honestly, did the writers of SG-1 and SG-A just have a vendetta against their doctors?
I recently had an assignment in my Earth Resources class where I asked if my students were Future Resource Conflict optimists or pessimists. Pessimism won 13-3.
Nice piece of the @nytimes.com covering the paper 'Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium' 🌊
Tree rings tell you about the past! 🌲💍
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/s...
Consultants are the bane of colleges.
And I wish I knew if I could buy the Raw Brigade soccer jersey somewhere. @flatspotrecords.bsky.social?
I told you all yesterday that you should listen to Raw Brigade (NSFW). It is always good to know you have allies in the struggle.
youtu.be/1og89ih7DtY?...
🧪⚒️ A big eruption occurred at a mud volcano in Colombia on the night of the 25th February 2026.
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Video from @fluxfolio_
If Colombian hardcore punk is your thing, the new(ish) Raw Brigade album (100%) is 🔥.
Ah, sorry. Black Panther, Sinners: www.imdb.com/name/nm33630...
But yeah, reboots are maddening.
At least it's Ryan Coogler at the helm?
There are a lot of things wrong with the US educational system, but the biggest is that it does buy into "run schools like businesses" in the sense that "making" is more important than "growing".
Faculty grade -- at least many of us -- because we are required to give students grades. If I had it my way, I wouldn't grade students. Instead, I would convey their level of dedication, diligence and sincerity to the learning process. Of course, med schools would hate that.
What I mean here is that education at all levels is accomplished by working, struggling, challenging yourself. If you think the education is about making the end products (essays, tests, etc.), you aren't interested in learning, you are interested in being a customer for a degree.
In Japanese culture, "expertise" is not earned through accomplishment or "innate talent". It is earned by diligence and work -- you might not be "the best", but if you have spent time working on some skill or knowledge, that is how you earn "expertise". AI and its shortcuts do not create expertise.
I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.
It's a sequel-prequel and I could only find it streaming not for purchase on Kanopy.
Wandering Earth 2. It clocks in at 2:53 and at least the multiple disasters and mistakes have explosions.
