Elizabeth V

Largest copper miners are from Australia (BHP) and Chile (Codelco) but alright. I think there is only one American company in the top ten and it’s Freeport-McMoran

If someone takes extra time on a test maybe they actually needed that extra time. Maybe they have an undiagnosed disability or maybe they just don’t share it with anyone, you don’t know. To just assume there are people scamming the system instead of just needing help tells me a lot about a person.

No one pretends to be disabled to get accommodations just like no one pretends to be poor to get food stamps.

Ruling that the land owner owns the pore space under their property is interesting. Do you own the pore space but not what’s in it if it happens to be natural gas or whatever (unless you also own the mineral rights)? I have a lot of questions about this.

They were like he’s really struggling with these things and then listed classic signs of ADHD and I was like, yes that’s the ADHD and why he needs these accommodations for those exact things. And then they made me jump through hoops to prove it.

My kid already had an IEP and we had to fight for a year to get ADHD added to it after he was diagnosed. It’s like they didn’t want to give him “too many” accommodations

I just bought wool yarn to make hats for my kids and with how expensive yarn is this year, they better like them 😅

Using a chatbot to test for authenticity is… something

Glad I’ve never had to work that out before 🤣

My apologies to whatever delivery driver had to deliver my two 20lb kettlebells that were shipped in one box

Maybe the list should have been 10 or 20 😄

I could have said caribou or sea lion or alligator and now I’m mad I didn’t add those

Yell as loud as they can 🤣

The first and last ones were sometimes a little too close

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Moose
Wolves
Pikas
Puffins
Grizzlies

Can anyone recommend a good and reliable text on mineral classification from Mohs to the present day?

#philsky #philsci

Thin Section Thursday!
Ophitic texture of plagioclase laths encased in clinopyroxene in a gabbro from the Glen Mtns. Layered Complex in southwestern Oklahoma. Contributed by Robert Puckett. You can contribute too! Send images to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

So yes, I do think scientists need to work on building trust w the public regardless of how much money is spent to discredit us. There were (and still are) some really awful people who were/are scientists. It’s not your fault, but the public doesn’t know you aren’t like that unless you prove it

In the 1940s Vanderbilt University gave radioactive iron to poor pregnant women. People have a real reason to not trust scientists. And while we didn’t do it, it’s not so easy for the public to trust us. That memory is gonna take a long time to go away.

I’ve recently seen the discussion about how scientists need to rebuild trust, and well, I don’t think we have ever really had it. Scientists in the not so distant past did some really shitty things. People are still alive who had their relatives experimented on. And we just kinda moved on from that.

Beautiful rocks! Makes me miss logging core though

No, let them google. More people need to know about A/B/O fiction 😈

Rare T. rex find in North Dakota, mammoth fossil digs ‘significant’ for research The North Dakota Geological Survey has found a new Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at a dig site in southwest North Dakota. Researchers first discovered the bones in September 2024 while searching for croc...

Some updates on what we have been working on lately here at NDGS Paleo.

T. rex and a whole lot of mammoths!

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Definitely. They want data handed over from universities and companies working with them from what I read

Sure machine learning can help with these things, but they essentially want to remove humans from the picture completely

a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' . Alt: a woman in a red shirt is rolling her eyes, lifting her eyebrows and tilting her head while saying `` sure , jan '' .

Lol

Launching the Genesis Mission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

New EO dropped. They want to do all scientific innovation with AI for:
1) advanced manufacturing
2) biotech
3) critical minerals
4) nuclear fission and fusion energy
5) quantum information science and
6) semiconductors and microelectronics

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Detail of a polished slab of siltstone coloured pale brown and grey with manganese oxide dendrites. There are significant Mn deposits in the L Triassic of S China.

Polished surface of the stone with a lower pale grey and upper mid grey colouration. It is specked and blotched with manganese oxide minerals.

A brown variety of this stone again patterned with manganese oxide dendrites.

A purple coloured variety of this stone which shows a cloudy pattern with grey streaks and beautiful examples of black manganese oxide dendrites.

This beautiful stone is from China and I’m trying to find out more about it. It might be from the M Triassic Baifeng or Guohua Fms of S China. Is there anyone out there with local knowledge? I’ve not been able to locate sufficient detail in the literature. It’s not a carbonate. #chinesepicturestone

Took my kid to the doctor and saw a pair of sundogs on the way home, but I was the only excited one

The data center boom in the desert The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.

Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.