Near Earth Objects; the database designed to save humanity
The media love natural disasters, even those that don’t exist. Last week (early October, 2017), dramatic footage of a (simulated) […]
Science in Context
Class 5; The Toba eruption – how a super volcano almost stopped humanity in its tracks
Toba Lake, in northern Sumatra, occupies the ancient Toba caldera. One of its outlets, the Asahan River, is the site
Earth’s vegetation responds to increasing CO2
Photosynthesis, a process that had its beginnings about 2.5 billion years ago, has an awesome responsibility; it keeps us breathing.
Hold a ‘0’ to the light and look through it – there is nothing, and everything
Several years ago I read Jerry P. King’s The Art of Mathematics (1992). Chapter 3 deals with Numbers, and in
Springs and seeps
It rains quite a bit on Mamaku Plateau, the tableland underlain by volcanic debris that was deposited violently 240,000 years
In praise of field work
The class field trip is underway. Teacher hands out the rap-around, virtual imaging glasses, and you are transported to a
Io; Zeus’s fancy and Jupiter’s moon
Zeus, the head-honcho of assorted Greek gods, heroes, nymphs, and mortals, was chiefly the God of the Sky, or Heavens.
An Italian job; seismic risk-assessment at risk
Life is a risky business. Not a day goes by when some aspect of our lives comes under the gaze
Sliced thin; time and process recorded in igneous rocks
This is the second in a series on the geological world under a microscope Geologists, it seems, are never satisfied
Sliced thin; kaleidoscopes with a geological purpose
This is the first post in a series on the geological world under a microscope As a kid visiting my