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When geologists I respect began telling me I should read this book, I bought and made room at the top of my book pile for Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail . They were right and it is wonderful. Anyone who visits the western mountains and deserts wonders how the early ...

Nowadays, all of us who are taught the history of science learn that Nicolaus Copernicus, in 1543, put the sun at the universe's center and demoted Earth into just another planet. As far as astronomy goes, that's true. But Copernicus himself meant something quite different, and profoundly geological ...

They lose court cases . They lose elections . They lose arguments . But should creationists lose their dignity? In war, it is useful to demonize your enemy. But I think it is dangerous to demonize your intellectual enemies, because everyone is motivated by a kernel of truth. (I'm not referring to ...

Next week I'll be giving a talk to the general public—at least, that subset of the general public that is deeply into their local watershed . After 13 years of writing here on About.com, I have some idea of what interests the public; also an idea of what the public needs to know. But some of you mus ...

Another highlight of the rock show last weekend was a big tray full of aquamarine crystals, from which I chose this specimen the size and shape of a fat pencil for just a dollar a gram. It reminded me of being a kid at the coin store, where there was usually a cigar box full of Indian-head pennies. ...

Isen omkring Nordpolen forsvinder hurtigere, end selv de mest skeptiske...

Det svenske Vattenfall overtog tre danske kulfyrede kraftværker –...

I Sverige har en mineralsamler fundet de første svenske diamanter...

Dig og klimaet Informationscenter for Miljø og Sundhed har i dag (1....

Jordskred, som det der onsdag aften rev 400 meter af motorvej E6 og 300 meter...

I have been without blogging for a while now, but I like to think it has been for a good reason. A paper in which I have worked with my PhD student and first author J.Duarte, among other co-workers, for almost a whole semester last year has just come out, after we have dealt with requested moderate ...

Apologies for the lack of posts over the last week. I have been in Osh in Kyrgyzstan, where internet access was limited to a very slow dial-up connection. I thought it would be useful to post a graph of the current state of play with the water and spillway levels, as I understand it. The water lev ...

Links from del.icio.us , tagged with geology for March 20th, 2010: Tethys Ocean – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Welcome to the USGS – U.S. Geological Survey Exploring Earth Visualizations The EMVC Deglaciation of North America Discovery Channel :: Krakatoa :: Inside the Eruption Smithsonian Edu ...

I sometimes add an entry related to the feeds that show up in the sidebar here, generated by a Google search that feeds into the page. One of the entries there led me to the Big Think collection of blogs. This looks like an intersting site, one I will follow for a while to decide if I should add it ...

Two minor updates have come through on this meeting from Lu Jungchang so I thought I should put them here: “Hello everyone, please pay attention to the following two changes about the pterosaur symposium: 1. Abstract deadline （May 15）： We have just received news that abstracts for Flugsaurier 2010 w ...