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Notes will be up on the website tomorrow! I am off on an adventure today!
[edit: I suck. They are not up yet. I’ll work on it!!!!!]
Author: katborealis (Page 17 of 28)
As you all know I am a student at heart. I have been a student as long as I remember and I have a feeling I will remain a student in some form or another my whole life. I have started a series that will become a survival guide based on advice, tips, and tricks I have been given or learned. The goal is to share how I survive this crazy student life and pass on these sometimes strange tips that have helped me through.
(write what you know right?)
The mineral color episode is out!
Listen here
Don’t worry not everything is up, but it will be filled in over the next few days!
Enjoy!
~Kathleen
There have been some big changes going on around here!
There should still be some posts on this blog but I am going to try and move a lot of the show notes into their new place on the website so it can be used as a reference!
Please take a minute to poke around and website, and get signed up for the forums. There will be some exclusive content on the forums in between shows and I think I am going to run the contests out of there.
I’ve been around, doing stuff…. I do feel bad though I promise!
I participated in the pilot episode of a new what I would call 201+ podcast (you know beyond the 101) called Divine Community!
I was also invited to participate in a panel disusions about science and religion for IncitingARiot episode 60! I still need to listen to it (ok I’ll be honest I am scared to listen to myself….) but when I get around to it if I decide I disagree with myself (I am totally allowed to do that) I will post a (retraction?/correction?/argument with myself?) but I can tell you right now this is a good example of me being the science side where I am trying to not offend people and be correct… without going 100% into my science side… if that even makes sense! HA! I confuse myself.
Enjoy!
~Kathleen
Listen to Episode 16 HERE
Show notes:
Geology 101: Marine Geology
Featured Mineral: Ice
Science news: dance your PhD, German Satellites, and lint!
Featured Music: Professor Science – The One About Rocks
Element: Water
I’ve heard this idea before several times on TTBOOK one of my favorite podcasts through public radio international. This idea was introduced to me by William Powers the author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry. His family has something called the internet Sabbath. For their family this happens on a Friday night and they unplug the modem and the family stays offline until Monday.
Every time I hear this I think to myself “I really need to do that… I send way too much time just refreshing webpages…” and then I do nothing. So this weekend I declared Saturday a day without screens! No TV (easy I don’t have one), no computer, no itouch/ipod/smartphone. Well I did it, and you know what? I had fun. I had way more time in the day, and I got stuff done. We didn’t stay home we went garage sale-ing, shopping, swimming, and did some exploring. Then came home and did some cooking, cleaning and crafting! It was a successful day! I was expecting to get bored but considering I was still exhausted from the week, I never felt the pull very strong. I think I am going to try and make this a regular thing, pick a day and disconnect!
So here is my challenge to you: are you addicted to your technology? No really are you showing signs of addiction? Do you refresh facebook more than once? Do you stare at twitter and wait for more messages? Are you never more than an arm’s length from your smart phone? Well? I think we are all getting addicted to our screens.
UNPLUG! Maybe a day after work, or a weekend day, or the whole weekend. Try it! Do you have hobbies you haven’t done in a while? Half-finished projects? Give it a shot!
We are witches are we not? Go for a walk and leave the phone in the car, relish in your disconnectedness. NO ONE CAN FIND YOU! (ok if you are going out on a hike it is always a good idea to leave a note or tell someone where you are going, and when you expect to be back….)
~Kathleen
So… Turns out that it doesn’t work when you try to record two people with the internal microphones on my computer. So I tried to order a really nice one online only to hit $30 shipping or no shipping to my state…
Long story short I am going to buy the only cheap one I could find in town and… See how that works.
Sorry for the delay I just have been doing this too pong for super shitty audio!
This episode will be coming out in mid-October! I will have a co-host and we will be detailing the chemical and physical reasons behind color in different minerals
So here are the preliminary topics and the finalized list of minerals we will be covering! If you have any other ideas please comment on this post or email me and I will add them to this post! However, the list of minerals is finalized.
Preliminary topics:
– General how you get color in minerals
– Specific minerals and how they get their colors
– How the change of color affects the associations for a mineral
Minerals:
* fuchsite
* Hematite
* Fluorite
* amethyst/citrine
* Lapis Lazuli
* sugilite gets its gorgeous purple color
* tourmaline,
* larimar
* kyanite
* aventurine,
* calcite
* corundums
* amethyst and citrine
* tourmaline
* aventurine
* calcite
* corundums
* Quartz
This should be a fun episode! The focus is going to be mostly on the science but we will for sure look into the changes in associations.
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