tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post6504377911768468619..comments2024-01-08T08:39:39.026-08:00Comments on The Open Source Paleontologist: Tragedy in MichiganAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16171447306687358664noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-2376874708382396542009-12-12T08:58:29.665-08:002009-12-12T08:58:29.665-08:00Images of ancient planetary terrain preserved with...Images of ancient planetary terrain preserved within a mucousal oracle-bead chronicle will be a challenge for geologists when that artifact is ultimately contained and housed in a museum, but hardly reason why MI State should lose their Geology department now or anytime in the future. Most people never think about historical images preserved within mucous forged in the nose and nasal cavities so as to become a rare oracle-bead artifact.Marcia L. Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12889401300539149870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-19388859244532644212009-12-03T16:33:14.871-08:002009-12-03T16:33:14.871-08:00That actually gave me a good example of what geolo...That actually gave me a good example of what geologists do. We've always been making fun of them because we never had a clue what they actually did. Thanks!Wynnhttp://chroniclesofwynn.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-30499236899081461032009-11-23T21:27:25.134-08:002009-11-23T21:27:25.134-08:00Umm. . .ok. . .please let's keep comments on t...Umm. . .ok. . .please let's keep comments on topic!Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16171447306687358664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-11269951867284881942009-11-15T16:14:18.180-08:002009-11-15T16:14:18.180-08:00There is not an Evolutionary Biologist today that ...There is not an Evolutionary Biologist today that would sign a document as follows -<br /><br />"I believe that the 615,968 base changes necessary to distinguish a homo sapien from a chimpanzee occurred solely by random mutation and took only 6 million years."<br /><br />drobert dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00936949805517287454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3467242881996852098.post-89750672743217090132009-11-15T08:24:10.804-08:002009-11-15T08:24:10.804-08:00I get the impression that Geology is not the only ...I get the impression that Geology is not the only department that is being dissolved at Michigan State I hear they're losing a Classics program as well. What this means is that those remaining professors will be shuffled around to teach only survey courses and the teaching of upper-level coursework will not continue. This has been the standard for a lot of large schools which are focusing on increased enrollment in money-making fields at the expense of less-well-funded departments. It is kind of surprising that a geology department would be poorly funded (I suppose they don't have any sequence stratigraphers or hard-rock geologists there) but this is really not a huge surprise. If this follows other departmental closures, the university will retain enough geology professors in the future to keep Rocks for Jocks 101 on the books, and that'll be it.<br /><br />Sucks, but what can you do? If the faculty and graduate student employees are unable to collectively stand up to the university administration, the administration will continue to make choices like this that maximize revenue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com