Monthly Archives: September 2007

Global attitudes to climate change

The BBC have just released the results of a global survey of attitudes to anthropogenic climate change, and it makes interesting reading.
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Categories: climate science, public science

The day my world stood still

Error lies at the heart of science; but there are a number of different kinds of “wrong”. An error in hindsight, where a past hypothesis of yours – perfectly reasonable at the time – is disproven by more accurate or … Continue reading

Categories: academic life

Calling all geobloggers

The first Accretionary Wedge was a big success, with major kudos due to Brian (who is also celebrating his first blogiversary) for doing the necessary cat-herding to make it happen. Now discussion is underway to organising the next few editions … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, links

At least one University department likes blogging, then

Janet is about to submit her tenure dossier, a three ring binder which simultaneously manages to look imposingly thick and yet a rather flimsy thing on which to hang your academic destiny. It also has an interesting addition: a section … Continue reading

Categories: academic life

Peru’s new crater extra-terrestrial, but illness not

One of the main risks of our media-saturated world is that although events can make it onto our TV and computer screens with unrivaled speed, this does not necessarily mean we have any idea of what’s actually going on, which … Continue reading

Categories: geology, planets, public science