Category Archives: deep time

The rightful place of science: putting us in ours

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Science doesn’t need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.
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Categories: deep time, environment, public science, ranting

More thoughts on illustrating geological time

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Chris Rowan

What is the best way to plot the timescale? Mine, obviously…
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Categories: basics, deep time, geology

Timescales for all

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Chris Rowan

So I’ve been playing around a bit with my mini timescale, and it is now available in two flavours, the original, but improved, right to left orientation: Download EPS version and the all-new left to right version, which I have … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, deep time, geology

When the hell are we?

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Chris Rowan

Whenever you’re trying to talk about science to a broader audience, one of the major challenges is cutting out the jargon. Sometimes, though, the real difficulty is not so much in translating the jargon, as identifying it in the first … Continue reading →

Categories: deep time, general science, geology