Whiskey is for drinkin’; water is for fightin!
Mark Twain wasn’t far wrong with this sardonic, perceptive quip. If he was able to comment on the global water […]
Digressions, SciComm, Science in Context
Science vs. Anti-science; Editorial in Scientific American
If you haven’t already done so, have a read of this Editorial from Scientific American. It concerns the state of
Class 5; Surf rolls and cartwheels; Surf kayaking at Raglan, New Zealand
Sam had the day off so the two of us headed to Raglan and Ngarunui Beach, a typical wild, west
Throwing the Celestial Dice
The expression global extinction frequently conjures images of all life being snuffed out by an act of celestial hubris. Asteroids,
Astronomy, Cycles and Climate Change
Cycle: ( noun) A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order (Oxford Dictionary) How Milankovitch cycles
Digressions, SciComm, Science in Context
Dali Wasn’t Nuts; the Creativity of Science
Salvador Dali – his art and science Art can be thought of as (among other things) the construction of sensory
Climate Change; a Geological Perspective, Digressions, SciComm, Science in Context
The crosses I bear
I have had occasion recently to bear the brunt of criticism about some of the decisions one makes in life.
The Bubbles That Changed our Perspective on the World’s Climate
One of my geology field seasons in the Canadian Arctic worked out of a base-camp on Axel Heiberg Island (west
Marrying Fossils, Isotopes and Geological time
Fossils and Strata; Relative geological time When one sedimentary layer overlies another, we can be fairly certain that the lowermost
Measures of Temperature in the Bowels of the Earth
We don’t need to look far to see evidence that the interior of the earth is hot; geysers and