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On Yeasts and Ophiolites

October 17, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Yeasts as carbon dioxide strippers. What a concept! Suddenly you are thinking of National Collection of Yeast Cultures in Norwich or the Center for Bread Flavour outside Brussels? Wrong countries. I’m thinking of Austria. But first, we’ll need to go to the UAE, Oman and Cyprus where you might be able to see rocks soaking up CO2.

Older still. Corals rise again, unseen for 350 million years.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, chris stillman, co2, deep carbon observatory, fred vine, geology, geophysics, photo, pichia pastoris, planet b, thomas gassler, travel, yildirim dilek

Free Associations

October 8, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Isn’t it ironic that my brain started making it’s own free associations at a time that social free association is proscribed?

It started again when there came a pier walk first thing this morning. And with that came a waft of stale urine from long closed public conveniences.

Chelsea Physic Garden Spring Spike (available as a fine scarf from FabHappy)
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: biosecurity, booklink, burma, chelsea physic garden, douglas adams, endangered species, fabhappy, geophysics, mark carwardine, nathaniel bagshaw ward, palm oil, photos, rubber, simonscarves, sumatra, tea plantation, travel

Nine Years On

October 5, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

It’s a shame that not everyone has the opportunity to visit New Zealand. Sometimes, our planets align and there are multiple reasons to do something. Let’s face it, visiting the other side of this planet requires unusual alignments.

0630 AM walk on Pauanui Beach this day 2011.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: geophysics, icebreaker, new zealand, photos, rugby, RWC, simonscarves, travel

Traces of Masts

September 28, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Here are eight photos of the reflections of masts of yachts on a day of high atmospheric pressure in a harbour on the east coast of Ireland. All taken during a pier walk in Dún Laoghaire with a polarised telephoto lens.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: dun laoghaire, geophysics, photography

The Shakes

September 5, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years, a decade before the devastating Northridge earthquakes rolled out from a huge slip on a hitherto undetected fault.

Our first home was in the foothills of the fault-bounded San Gabriel Mountains. The office was close to the Raymond Fault. Despite such proximity to future earthquake epicentres, we never experienced any severe ground shakes though the potential for them lurked large in our subconscious.

Reaching for a beer in an earthquake?
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: earthquake, geology, geophysics, japan, new zealand, photo, travel, usa

Gravitational Waves And More

September 3, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There are a few stories in these journals about how technology changes with time (and space). Today, our TV breakfast news was headlined by the story of a collision of two black holes several billion years ago. A redefinition of the concept of a ‘late breaking’ story that we know about because of the sciences. The collision that was detected chirped for less than a tenth of a second on May 21st, 2019. It’s worth noting that mankind only invented the mechanism to record such news recently.

Dark energy? Dark Ages? A Starling sang for me earlier today.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: albert einstein, astrophysics, booklink, brian greene, caltech, charlemagne, geophysics, LIGO, nature, new scientist, photos, virgo

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