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  MyCarta Interested in colors and puzzles? Try my latest post: The rainbow is dead...long live the rainbow! - Part 2 http://wp.me/p1IlJY-yD http://mycarta.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/the-rainbow-is-dead-long-live-the-rainbow-part-2-a-rainbow-puzzle/

  

  The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 2: a rainbow puzzle mycarta.wordpress.com

  ROYGBIV or YOGRVIB? If you are interested in the topic of color palettes for scientific data, and the rainbow in particular, I would say you ought to read this 2007 IEEE visualization paper by Borl...

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  MyCarta http://infostory.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/from-the-archives-measurement-milestone/

  

  From the Archives: Measurement Milestone infostory.wordpress.com

  Today in 1790, the French National Assembly passed two decrees: One asked the French Academy of Sciences to determine “the scale of division most suitable for weights and measures and for coins...

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  MyCarta Visualization tools and resources: http://students.washington.edu/kuksenok/blog/viztools/

  interactive everything students.washington.edu

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  MyCarta http://www.agilegeoscience.com/journal/2012/5/24/thermogeophysics-whuh.html Thermogeophysics — finding hot rock with seismic (and other things, but we're all about the seismic and rock physics). Evan Bianco of Agile Geoscience reports from a conference

  

  Thermogeophysics, whuh? - Journal - Agile* agilegeoscience.com

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  MyCarta http://exp.lore.com/post/23316692969/in-1848-a-freak-accident-sent-a-3-foot-metal-rod

  

  In 1848, a freak accident sent a 3-foot metal rod... exp.lore.com

  In 1848, a freak accident sent a 3-foot metal rod through the skull of railway worker named Phineas Gage, piercing his frontal lobe. Gage famously survived, but underwent dramatic personality changes...

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  MyCarta UC Berkeley: How to read a seismogram http://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/seismoblog.php/2012/01/01/how-to-read-a-seismogram-1

  

  Seismo Blog seismo.berkeley.edu

  During the past two weeks the Earth was seismically exceptionally quiet - until Tokyo and parts of Japan's east coast were shaken on New Year's Day. Although high rise buildings in Japanese cities swayed in a gentle fashion, no...

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  MyCarta A rock a day...for a year

  

  Rock365: The Postscript hypocentral.com

  So, the project to photograph a rock every day for 2010 has finally come to an successful completion. The original idea, foolishly conceived around a camp fire in a Bedouin encampment on the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco...

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  MyCarta This was a fantastic talk on Seismic Visualization

  An Introduction to Wavefield Visualization geoconvention.com

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  MyCarta My new blog series on the rainbow color palette takes off! http://mycarta.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/the-rainbow-is-dead-long-live-the-rainbow-part-1/

  

  The rainbow is dead…long live the rainbow! – Part 1 mycarta.wordpress.com

  This is the first  post in a series on the rainbow and similar color palettes. My goal is to demonstrate it is not a good idea to use these palettes to display scientific data, and then answer these two questions: (1) is there...

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  MyCarta New exciting geophysics product by Agile Geoscience coming up in a few days http://www.agilegeoscience.com/journal/2012/5/8/one-week-countdown.html

  One week countdown - Journal - Agile* agilegeoscience.com

  We're super-excited, dear reader. Even more than usual. At the Calgary GeoConvention last year, ...

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