Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Chris Rowan

There was a certain amount of cowering away from >100 F temperatures by team Allochthonous this week, which means that (a) the link-fest is a bit lighter than usual, and (b) there may be a slight focus on things related … Continue reading →

Categories: links

Scenic Saturday: seeing geology everywhere

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Chris Rowan

One of the gifts of a geological education (or one of the curses, if you are one of our long-suffering friends) is that our habit of looking for patterns in the landscape – the evidence of past worlds preserved in … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, geomorphology, photos

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Chris Rowan

A bit late with the link-fest this week: it turns out that when you spend the whole weekend under a sprinkler to avoid overheating in the midwest’s current heatwave, laptop and internet usage go down substantially… Other posts on All-geo … Continue reading →

Categories: links

Air conditioning as a positive climate feedback?

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Chris Rowan

Could our need to cool ourselves increase our need to cool ourselves? Continue reading →

Categories: climate science, environment, society

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Chris Rowan

After a long hiatus, our weekly link-sharing extravaganza returns! Comprising the most interesting and notable things we have found around the internet in the last few days. Other posts on All-geo On Metageologist: Scotland, 1 billion years ago: an orogeny, … Continue reading →

Categories: links