Monthly Archives: April 2010

Boobquake: a slightly silly test of a ridiculous scientific hypothesis

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Do immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes? Of course not.
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Categories: antiscience, by Anne, ranting

Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Chris Rowan

The interesting bits of my Twitter stream for the last week
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Categories: links

A very British paradigm shift

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Chris Rowan

My admiration for the intellectual integrity of Arthur Holmes, and his patient advocacy of continental drift.
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Categories: deep time, geology

A uniformitarian approach to Earth day

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Chris Rowan

I’m sure recycling prose is good for the environment somehow.
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Categories: environment, links, ranting

The seismic non-pocalypse

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Why seismically, 2010 is not as out of the ordinary as some people think – and why the question is actually the wrong one to be asking anyway.
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology