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- On Hope Jahren, isotope detective :
- Lab Lemming: Translating the inside baseball isotope talk above: http://lablemminglounge.blo... (8 days 19 hours ago)
- Hope Jahren: Picarro, but if I had to do it over again I’d go Los Gatos. Long story. (9 days 7 hours ago)
- Lab Lemming: Los Gatos or Picarro? (9 days 7 hours ago)
- Matt Herod: The map of Hawaii looks like a mineral grain in thin section. Very cool. (20 days 11 hours ago)
- The Bobs: The colors on Io’s surface are primarily caused by allotropes of sulfur. Do geologists know... (55 days 10 hours ago)
- Peter Council: I won’t stand for disruptive behaviour, but I’m not that good at dealing with it, simply... (44 days 0 hours ago)
- Pam: As a non-geologist, I am hoping you have something posted about the Wisconsin booms which are being... (53 days 16 hours ago)
- terry: This didn’t fill in the Guerrero Gap. (54 days 9 hours ago)
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Category Archives: public science
How to (and how not to) talk about earthquake hazards in the media
Susan Hough: take a bow. Simon Winchester: don’t. Continue reading
The scientist-journalist divide: what can we learn from each other?
Last week, the journal Nature published two research papers on the effects of human-caused global warming on extreme precipitation events. I’m working on a post on the papers, and they’ve already received quite a bit of attention in the media. … Continue reading
The elephants in the room at ScienceOnline 2011
The undercurrents and unresolved issues at ScienceOnline 2011, that I feel are going to be an important component of online conversations in the next 12 months. Continue reading
After the (blog)storm: following up on the big geological stories of 2010
In the past year, there have been several occasions where we’ve discussed events that were, at the time of posting, capturing a lot of media attention. But, as we all know, the attention span of the rolling news cycle is … Continue reading
Geobloggers – why do you blog?
For geology bloggers, one of the most interesting, and encouraging, things about 2010 was that two big geological organisations – the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union – have started to grasp, and exploit, the potential of … Continue reading
Hey, NASA: this is what peer review actually looks like
‘Scientists dispute newly published research’ isn’t a headline. It’s what scientists do. Continue reading
Written in Stone: the interview
To accompany our review of Written in Stone, a couple of weeks ago Anne and I sat down with its author, our good friend and fellow blogger Brian Switek, for what turned into a fascinating discussion of his book, the … Continue reading
Book Review: Written in Stone by Brian Switek
Palaeoblogger extraordinaire Brian Switek has often expressed frustration at the fact that many recent popularisers of evolution have a habit of downplaying the importance of the fossil record in studies of evolution. However, when reading the opening chapters of Written … Continue reading
The dawn of Scientopia and the evolving science blogging ecosystem
Whilst I was rock hunting in a region where whisky is far more readily available than wifi, the rapid reorganisation of the science blogosphere has continued with the unveiling of a shiny new blog collective: Scientopia. Largely the brainchild of … Continue reading
