Category: Science in Context

May 22, 2017

Tsunami statistics make grim reading, which is why I am not going to quote any.

May 18, 2017

Sunday in Pisa proved to be a welcome change from the usual tourist-cramped, shoulder-barging throngs

May 13, 2017

Measurement is a cornerstone of science, in fact of pretty well everything we do: How

May 6, 2017

“Their final resting place…” a sepulchral phrase, redolent of a fate that awaits us all.

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 3, 2017

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

March 9, 2017

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

February 24, 2017

Earth’s magnetic field is on the move – so too is magnetic North! Constancy in