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		<title>I&#8217;ve Been Tagged!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been tagged by Chuck, of Ya Like Dogs, to participate in a science-blog chain letter of sorts. Upon being tagged, the tagee is obliged to summarize their blogging motivation, philosophy, and experience in only ten words, and then pay it forward to ten more. Ahem. Oceanic space is profoundly fascinating; informal writing demands scientific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/08/ive-been-tagged/</link>
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		<title>The Best Evolutionary Biology Rap You Will Hear Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hands down. By Tom McFadden, a young man from my old alma mater (feat. Charlie Darwin). Check out his youtube channel.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/08/the-best-evolutionary-biology-rap-you-will-hear-today/</link>
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		<title>Thank You, Stephen Schneider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sad news yesterday. Stephen Schneider, a leading climatologist from Stanford University, passed away at age 65, apparently of a heart attack. He was on an airplane, flying from Sweden to London on his way back from a scientific meeting. I didn&#8217;t know Schneider personally, and I never had the opportunity to take a class from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/07/thank-you-stephen-schneider/</link>
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		<title>The Lighter Side of Black</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it looks like BP has maybe-possibly-if-nothing-else-goes-wrong-at-least-for-now managed to stanch the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, using a tighter-fitting containment cap. And I just stumbled across this video, which I, somehow, had missed before now. BP deals with a boardroom coffee spill&#8230; Heh. See, it&#8217;s funny because in the video, the oil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/07/the-lighter-side-of-black/</link>
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		<title>Grain, Extent, and 8-bit Cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me a link to this cool website a couple of days ago: a guy named Brett Camper has coded it up to show zoomable maps of several major cities, pixellated à la old video game world maps. It&#8217;s visually neat, and it also illustrates how observed patterns change with changing scale of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/07/grain-extent-and-8-bit-cities/</link>
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		<title>Our Hold on the Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We asked for rain. It didn’t flash and roar.  It didn’t lose its temper at our demand  And blow a gale. It didn’t misunderstand  And give us more than our spokesman bargained for;  And just because we owned to a wish for rain,  Send us a flood and bid us be damned and drown.  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/07/our-hold-on-the-planet/</link>
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		<title>Methods of sampling and analysis and our concepts of ocean dynamics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a paper today (actually, more like an essay) by Peter Wangersky, a longtime chemical oceanographer. Titled &#8220;Methods of sampling and analysis and our concepts of ocean dynamics,&#8221; it is essentially a personable ramble through six decades of marine science, reflecting on the technical capabilities and sampling methods over time and the way those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/06/methods-of-sampling-and-analysis-and-our-concepts-of-ocean-dynamics/</link>
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		<title>Does Peer Review Need Fixing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read this by Michael Brooks in New Scientist a couple days ago, and it got me thinking. The piece essentially questions the effectiveness of the peer review system if it can let through (bunk) studies saying that homeopathic remedies can cure cancer, or that the universe is in fact filled with luminous aether. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/06/does-peer-review-need-fixing/</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Fortran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, maybe &#8220;joy&#8221; is a strong word. But over the past couple of days, I&#8217;ve been programming in Fortran a bit for the first time in about two years. Fortran, for the uninitiated, is the oldest programming language still in widespread use today. It gets a lot of grief (much of it deserved, some not) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/06/the-joy-of-fortran/</link>
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		<title>A Moment of Levity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime early tomorrow, BP will try to stop their month-old geyser of red, sludgy death in the Gulf of Mexico with a &#8220;top kill,&#8221; injecting a mixture of concrete and mud into the well from the surface. If it doesn&#8217;t work, the only option left for stopping the flow is the &#8220;junk shot,&#8221; injecting a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceanographerschoice.com/2010/05/a-moment-of-levity/</link>
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