Cory J Godwin

I will argue with all the short-sighted critics who can't see beauty and intrigue in Midwestern and Great Plains landscapes, but the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains rising up from the San Luis Valley do give me pause.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

He thinks like a dumb kid who just signed up for the delayed-entry program in 1992.

There are strains of Christianity where prominent figures, whether religious or political, suggest that empathy is bad.

I believe the term “toxic empathy” has been thrown around but I can’t remember the source.

It’s all so fucking nuts. I can imagine thinking like that.

Weather radar for northeastern Oklahoma showing multiple tornado and thunderstorm watches and warnings. March 6, 2026.

Springtime

This comes soon after reports that Russia is helping Iran with the targeting and locations of US forces, so…..

Ah, the “kill ‘em all and let god sort ‘em out” philosophy. I am familiar.

Thin Section Thursday!
Fe-poor zoned sphalerite crystal in thin section (PPL) - ID verified by microprobe analysis. Photo by Ingrid Kjarsgaard (c)
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A floor standing instrument labeled Thermo Scientific and K-Alpha. Part of it is a sizable stainless steel vacuum chamber in which the sample is irradiated w X-rays, and the energies of ejected electrons are measured.

Just back from a demo of the XPS!
#Chemsky

He did, indeed, find someone less qualified.

But equally qualified and likely to cosplay.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://wapo.st/4r7kRAU

They are trying a form of the “we have been at war with Iran for 47 years” bullshit line of the gop to suggest Trump is not starting a war but ending one.

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Kimberlite emplacement conditions through experimentally produced reaction rims on ilmenite macrocrysts

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May come to regret naming it Operation Epic F……….

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Rinse (away the lessons of the last 50 years) and repeat.

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Southern Ocean Vertical Carbon Stratification Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition Breakdowns of Southern Ocean carbon isotope stratification occur at multiple glacial terminations back to at least 1.55 million years ago An increasingly efficient Southern Ocean biological pump ...

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Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

Updated:

James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

This really should be a five-alarm fire—both in terms of what the Trump administration wants the military to be able to use AI for and in their threats against a tech company that refuses to comply with incredibly dangerous demands.

A do-over. He wants a do-over. Jeez.

Same reason I tried to build a Hot Wheels car track off the roof with the kids when my wife wasn't home:

because they surround themselves with people who tell them how brilliant they are.

A generation of Americans just collectively retched.

Also, to me, this symbolizes a country that is NOT prospering.