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...chemistry to understanding the earth,” he says, provided the perfect fit and allowed him to reconcile his interests. Mukhopadhyay says he remembers his interest in noble gas geochemistry being piqued as a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology. An advisor was using the interplanetary dust particles that have been settling on the Earth’s surface throughout its history as a way to reconstruct past variations in climate. They found that helium-3—a rare noble gas isotope that is extremely depleted on Earth—proved to be a good tracer...
...theft didn't even come to light until the next day. (Guards who noticed that the painting was missing assumed it had been removed to be photographed.) Once museum officials realized the truth, the Louvre was shut down. Police arrived to question the staff, re-enact the crime and dust for fingerprints, a new crime-fighting technique in those days. The French border was sealed and departing ships and trains searched. By the time the museum re-opened nine days later, the theft was front-page news around the world. Tips were pouring in from amateur detectives, nutty professors...
...marriage is a huge issue. We've got a whole movement in this country saying, "Please be careful. The gay marriage is coming! Oh my God." What is it? They're gonna sprinkle gay dust on you and you're going to run out and kiss your neighbor? I don't get it. What are you so afraid...
...usually a bad idea to try to explain things that do not make sense. It is counterintuitive that expensive phones should sell well when the economy is shrinking, the credit markets look like a dust bowl, and people are losing jobs...
...pictures of China's dust bowl...