Author: Ricketts

May 2, 2017

Montefioralle, Chianti country, Tuscany, Italy, and from where I’m sitting (happily sampling a Chianti Classico)

April 24, 2017

Being acquainted with things that are really ancient, is an everyday experience for a geologist;

April 15, 2017

In 1940-41, Harold Wellman, a creative but somewhat irreverent New Zealand geologist, along with his

April 8, 2017

Seismic metaphors, or seismic as metaphor? Seismic, a word that geologists and geophysicists traditionally thought

April 3, 2017

I am of a generation that, at mention of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, I recall

March 26, 2017

Mistaken Point on the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland (Canada) acquired its unfortunate reputation by fooling

March 21, 2017

Deceptive news is the art of pulling wool over the eyes of the populace, a

March 13, 2017

When James Hutton in 1785 presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh his ideas on the

March 9, 2017

Omens, God’s wrath, or just plain misfortune; comets were seen by our Medieval forebears as

March 6, 2017

Continental Drift was the leading hypothesis for continental aggregation, prior to plate tectonics German meteorologist