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Budaghers, New Mexico

By anewnadir | Published: 22 December 2009
On Saturday I went to Santa Fe to meet with someone who had agreed to go over the writing sample I am submitting along with my graduate school applications. About halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe there is a derelict outlet mall, just on the outskirts of Budaghers. I forget what the name of this [...]
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white sands

By anewnadir | Published: 19 November 2009
White sands desert. A giant volcanic basin that doesn’t connect with a river that flows to the ocean…water collects in playas and evaporates, making gypsum crystals. The crystals are turned into tiny granules of gypsum by perpetual winds of ~40 mph. 30 miles squared of gypsum dunes that move 30 feet every year swallowing everything [...]
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Visualizing Science

By anewnadir | Published: 12 March 2009
Information visualization is one of the buzzwords of 2009 and is definitely on the list of things I knew how to do better (with cooking, tennis, speaking french). The “Map of Science”, developed by a team of researchers lead by Johan Bollen at the Los Alamos National Labs in my glorious home state New Mexico, [...]
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