If you commit a crime, that is. Because forensic geologists will, uh, track you down. Or so says Raymond Murray, author of Evidence of the Earth: Forensic Geology and Criminal Invstigation. He tells some good true-crime stories. As an academic, he’s found a career applying his skills to makea tangible difference: catching criminals.
That has to be rewarding. I saw him speak at a Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, which, despite its name, does not sell used books. They did have a good selection of “bargain books.” But I refrained. As Jessica Bennett writes in an article I just read recently, “the idea of ‘saving money’ is worth more than the object purchased. When a person buys something simply because it is “such a good deal,” they are paying money for the reward of saving money.”
Last night I saw a band that used an old 1950s-style chrome microphone. Funny how it looked good to me, even though I suspected the chrome case was just a shell for a modern mic. That is, form did not follow function as it probably did for the originals. Yet, what does it look “cool”? The glamorization of the past?
