tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post3649222742853280548..comments2024-02-07T22:52:15.919-07:00Comments on Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science: Liquid Ferrofluids: Solid Science For Possible Cancer Tumour TreatmentWord Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-77996043659777859952015-06-23T23:13:24.448-06:002015-06-23T23:13:24.448-06:00New post on Southpaw Kangaroos is out there now!New post on Southpaw Kangaroos is out there now!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-54859412559455869602015-06-22T22:10:35.852-06:002015-06-22T22:10:35.852-06:00"AAPG Bulletin" delays are even longer. ..."AAPG Bulletin" delays are even longer. I checked the June 2014 issue and found most articles had a timeline like this: Manuscript received November 21, 2012, provisional acceptance. June 12, 2013; revised manuscript received August 16, 2013; final acceptance October 31, 2013, actual publication JUNE 2014. So a typical article takes close to 20 months to get published! (Working in geologic time is no excuse, really.)<br /><br />When I edited the local geologic publication, "The Mountain Geologist" we usually turned an article around in 6-12 months (if the authors cooperated with the revisions time line.) We had fewer members and a lot less red tape. It was a quarterly publication, not a monthly like the "AAPG Bulletin."Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-26034962377861898842015-06-22T18:48:39.655-06:002015-06-22T18:48:39.655-06:00OK, that's just weird. But, I tracked down th...OK, that's just weird. But, I tracked down <a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9756240&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0003598X14000532" rel="nofollow">the original article on which that piece was based</a>, and it brings to mind a topic that <i>is</i> relevant to a blog dealing with science and writing. To wit, the differences among the various scientific disciplines in the delay between submission and publication of scholarly papers. That article was submitted for publication in March of last year; it was accepted in July, but not published until June, 2015. OK, the journal is <i>Antiquity</i>; no one's in a rush for the latest and greatest, I guess, but that's gotta be tough on people seeking tenure, trying to make a name for themselves, or just excited about 8 million dead dogs. I was surprised, when my son the economist first started publishing, how long the delay was in that field (long, but not <i>that</i> long). In the biomedical sciences, the publication cycle is very short, with a lot of publication being done on-line these days. I've never heard a really good explanation for why some of the social sciences tolerate (encourage?) such long publication delays. How are things in your field? Any thoughts on this?janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-46758423396364609422015-06-22T16:39:21.489-06:002015-06-22T16:39:21.489-06:008,000,000 mummified dogs<a href="http://www.newsquench.com/2015/06/8-million-mummified-dogs-found-in-egypt/" rel="nofollow">8,000,000 mummified dogs</a>Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-19297693754317093972015-06-20T18:14:00.547-06:002015-06-20T18:14:00.547-06:00^^^ auto correct -- there's is actually there...^^^ auto correct -- there's is actually theresWord Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-62374642558486117152015-06-20T18:11:37.858-06:002015-06-20T18:11:37.858-06:00So true. So many over there's and heres.
My f...So true. So many over there's and heres.<br /><br />My friend has given up almonds and almond milk. . .Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-29215658741849086142015-06-20T17:43:31.533-06:002015-06-20T17:43:31.533-06:00So, is my hummingbird feeder good because is suppo...So, is my hummingbird feeder good because is supports pollinating hummingbirds, or bad because it diverts them from pollinating plants? See, that's the bad thing about ecosystems, you push down here, and something pops up over there. Actually, at dozens of over theres. All I know is that between the CA drought and the beepocalypse, my beloved almonds seem doomed.<br />janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-58895608124721518972015-06-20T16:08:31.024-06:002015-06-20T16:08:31.024-06:00Bird and mammal extinctions accelerated rapidly si...Bird and mammal extinctions accelerated rapidly since 1700-1800, according to the chart in the article. Vertebrate and invertebrate extinction accelerated more since 1800-1900. I did not see the article addressing why this was so. . . Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-40497395904666469242015-06-19T15:32:56.040-06:002015-06-19T15:32:56.040-06:00Saving the 6th extinction article for later.
Yeah...Saving the 6th extinction article for later.<br /><br />Yeah, the pope blew a lot of people away with that statement.<br /><br />CCR makes everything better. Well, that and hot, dry weather!<br /><br />Fun teaching Earthquakes this week with Jello and Brownies. They had great questions and big smiles. Just what the Dr. (or P.A.) ordered.<br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-10201019755795335692015-06-19T14:46:52.735-06:002015-06-19T14:46:52.735-06:00More bad news this week.
But at least the Vatican...<a href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/1/5/e1400253.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">More bad news this week.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html" rel="nofollow">But at least the Vatican is paying attention.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmEGm-mraE" rel="nofollow">Music to pump out your basement by.</a>janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-76613254931995371452015-06-19T09:48:38.096-06:002015-06-19T09:48:38.096-06:00I 've always wondered where all the mommy long...I 've always wondered where all the mommy long legs went. <br /><br />Prolegomenon is a great word and is new to me. Anything pro lego is ok by me.<br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-46492146336488639202015-06-19T03:51:53.015-06:002015-06-19T03:51:53.015-06:00Let me think... Prolegomenons are normally sort of...Let me think... Prolegomenons are normally sort of short, right?<br />Nope, I don't have that. But I do have a prodaddylonglegomenon I could post.<br /><br />LegoGrimHarvestmanlegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-17913484627528876672015-06-18T20:12:51.447-06:002015-06-18T20:12:51.447-06:00Lego, do you have a prolegomenon to go with your a...Lego, do you have a prolegomenon to go with your above post?!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-46892621019922330572015-06-18T16:23:03.728-06:002015-06-18T16:23:03.728-06:00That sounds very messy, Lego! Glad Noosie was unaf...That sounds very messy, Lego! Glad Noosie was unaffected back in the day.<br /><br />Had my leakage come from a burst pipe, my insurance would have covered it. Hoping yours did.<br /><br />Water Woman<br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-61762335660786510762015-06-18T16:09:16.116-06:002015-06-18T16:09:16.116-06:00Word Woman,
Twenty-nine months ago (February) I re...Word Woman,<br />Twenty-nine months ago (February) I returned home from a visit in Wisconsin. I knew something was amiss when I opened my front door and was greeted with a chill in the indoor air. I entered the house and heard a faint rushing of wather. The rushing got louder as I approached the steps of my basement. When I reached the top of the steps I stopped in my tracks.<br /><br />A meter-deep-and-rising lake of water was forming in my basement. Bobbing on the surface were picnic coolers, seat cushions, a chest freezer, stereo speakers, plastic bottles, buckets, bins, a dehumidifier, a space heater – all the flotsam and jetsam of my downstairs storage system. It was like a live larger-than-life-scale version of David Letterman’s “Will it Float?” segment. (Most of my stored items did not float!)<br /><br />Not thinking clearly (even more so than normal) I descended the steps. Since the bottom four or five steps were submerged, I had to guess when to stop stepping down. Though I could hear the now-near-deafening rushing water, I didn’t bother to determine the source of the waterfall headwaters (a burst-open overhead pipe). After confirming that I had reached the floor, I waded in waist-deep water over to the fuse box. For some reason I thought cutting the power to the house would somehow be helpful. <br /><br />Before I began unscrewing fuses, however, a flash of reason hit me. Not knowing the location of the basement shut-off valve (I know now!), I waded back to the steps, ascended, ascertained the city utilities emergency number, and phoned it. After what seemed like an hour (actually 15 minutes) a service man came and located the underground shut-off valve in my yard. That stopped the bleeding. Then he lugged a heavy duty sump pump and large-gauge tubing down my basement steps and began siphoning the lake out the basement window into my yard.<br /><br />His theory was that my oil furnace died, causing my water pipes to freeze and rupture. My next water/sewage bi-monthly bill, normally about $40, was $800.<br /><br />In the triage that followed, I had to say farewell to scores of treasured books, photos and letters. But no loss of life. A confused Noosie cat, who returned with me from Wisconsin, remained upstairs, high and dry upstairs, only occasionally venturing to the threshold of the steps, then scurrying back to non-moistness. She was never a fan of the water.<br /><br />The silver lining? No loss of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMan07pIhsw" rel="nofollow">orange</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyv2XEKD7Sw" rel="nofollow">shag</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQp4fZMKrM" rel="nofollow">carpet</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sSEkZ86ts" rel="nofollow">mourn</a>.<br /><br />jan,<br />I had no toner, but I did try tossing my Isotoner gloves into the lake, like throwing down the gauntlet to some moist foe. But all that happened was that they got soggy.<br /><br />LegoSoThe<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJ01b80lmg" rel="nofollow">Shags</a>AreWhatPlaysInPeoria/Pekin <br /><br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-29610068269475338982015-06-18T08:54:57.705-06:002015-06-18T08:54:57.705-06:00From suck to stuck, I like it!From suck to stuck, I like it!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-72550916718201887332015-06-18T08:50:28.544-06:002015-06-18T08:50:28.544-06:00Maybe if you dump some toner into your basement, y...Maybe if you dump some toner into your basement, you could suck it all up with a magnet....janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-68513233839322363552015-06-18T06:51:59.770-06:002015-06-18T06:51:59.770-06:00Sorry you had to go through that, jan. I never tho...Sorry you had to go through that, jan. I never thought of calling the fire department. There's no way they could have pumped so many basements in Denver though.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-60587201983113775302015-06-18T04:05:24.886-06:002015-06-18T04:05:24.886-06:00We had similar flooding during Hurricane Floyd in ...We had similar flooding during Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Actually had to call the Fire Department to pump out our basement, which includes my wife's office. After that, we got French drains and a sump pump installed, which have worked well, it seems. You have my sympathy; it's no fun at all.<br />janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-84219061783361047252015-06-17T22:43:53.246-06:002015-06-17T22:43:53.246-06:00. . .or a silver lining to go with the orange shag.... . .or a silver lining to go with the orange shag. . .speaking colorfully, as we are, this week.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-59514851001118446392015-06-17T22:14:33.375-06:002015-06-17T22:14:33.375-06:00Thanks, Lego. Most of my most cherished books and ...Thanks, Lego. Most of my most cherished books and photographs were upstairs. . .and the ones in the basement were mostly old textbooks and notes from college and grad school. I did find some long-forgotten kid artwork and a few photos. <br /><br />Very strange. . .but I miss that orange shag carpeting. I would not have guessed that!<br /><br />I do appreciate your sunny, warm wishes, Lego!<br /><br />Have you been through a flooded basement? Good way to cull a few things!<br /><br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-74431765478997277452015-06-17T21:36:25.208-06:002015-06-17T21:36:25.208-06:00Word Woman,
Sorry to hear about flooded home. Hope...Word Woman,<br />Sorry to hear about flooded home. Hope you can salvage as much as possible, and dry out as soon as possible.<br /><br />A pretty heroic (heroineic?) in getting PEOTS posted this week!<br /><br />LegoWishingYouSunshineAndZephyrslegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-90407357728829975652015-06-17T20:05:03.940-06:002015-06-17T20:05:03.940-06:00Interesting, jan.
Lego, I knew it! I figured eith...Interesting, jan.<br /><br />Lego, I knew it! I figured either carnival or circus.<br /><br />Basement update: 1 dehumidifier, 14 air movers, and 1 air scrubber going. Carpet gone, pad gone, paneling gone, holes drilled in baseboard. All furniture up on blocks.<br /><br />My shop-vac could not handle all the moisture. Sigh: long orange shag '70's carpet in now in a haul away truck.<br /><br />Not covered by insurance. And, also, not covered for my neighbor who DOES have flood insurance.<br /><br />It can stop raining now for awhile.<br /><br />Ah, the joys of home ownership!<br /><br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-41108814349427068242015-06-17T20:04:35.012-06:002015-06-17T20:04:35.012-06:00Interesting, jan.
Lego, I knew it! I figured eith...Interesting, jan.<br /><br />Lego, I knew it! I figured either carnival or circus.<br /><br />Basement update: 1 dehumidifier, 14 air movers, and 1 air scrubber going. Carpet gone, pad gone, paneling gone, holes drilled in baseboard. All furniture up on blocks.<br /><br />My shop-vac could not handle all the moisture. Sigh: long orange shag '70's carpet in now in a haul away truck.<br /><br />Not covered by insurance. And, also, not covered for my neighbor who DOES have flood insurance.<br /><br />It can stop raining now for awhile.<br /><br />Ah, the joys of home ownership!<br /><br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-9822137545847793822015-06-17T19:40:57.672-06:002015-06-17T19:40:57.672-06:00Word Woman,
My life is a carnival.
LegoLamBandaWord Woman,<br /><br />My <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0GSR2s9vmE" rel="nofollow">life is a carnival</a>.<br /><br />LegoLamBandalegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.com