Monthly Archives: March 2008

Mountain musings 2: What’s God got to do with it?

A meditation on different perspectives on, and responses to, natural grandeur.
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Categories: bloggery, general science

Mountain musings 1: The hard climb of science

Making the philosophical best out of getting lost in the mountains
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Categories: academic life, general science

Geologists in the movies: the myth of the maverick

[submitted for The Accretionary Wedge #7] It’s a fact of life that scientific accuracy is not generally at the top of Hollywood’s to-do list when making a movie. Any scientist can no doubt recall multiple occasions when their ability to … Continue reading

Categories: public science, ranting

Sometimes you just have to plot the data yourself

An old(er) Grand Canyon? Yes, if you ignore one annoying data point…
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Categories: geology

635 days later

Hurray! Finally published!
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Categories: academic life, geology