Monthly Archives: September 2007

Houston, we have a gender problem

Forgive the pun – Sheril claimed the sexy title…
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Categories: bloggery

Sorry creationists: rocks just aren’t that coy about their age

and they’re not embarrassed about being a few billion.
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Categories: antiscience, deep time

Of aftershocks and tsunamis

Questions arising from the Indonesian quakes
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Categories: basics, earthquakes, geohazards

Places you do not want to find yourself

1. The middle of the Namibian desert with a broken car. 2. The Yucatan Peninsula, 65 million years BP. 3. Sitting on a flight back to Johannesburg as the captain announced the final result of England’s abject capitulation to South … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery

Who needs science when you have pointless gadgetry?

Those clever Japanese have done it again – whilst seismologists look in increasingly unlikely places for a method of reliably predicting earthquakes, they’ve produced a little box which provides a timely warning of impending doom: A broadband and communications provider … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes