I am a big fan of BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time. The format is always the same: veteran broadcaster Melvyn Bragg plus three top British academics discuss a particular topic. It is not in the least bit dumbed down, being 45 minutes of intense talk about things like ‘The Safavid Dynasty’. I can recommend… Continue reading Sedimentology on the Moooon
Continental tectonics
This post is part of my journey into the geology of mountains. Plate tectonics is one of the most successful scientific concepts of the Twentieth Century. It revolutionised the study of the Earth and is one of the few cases where the term paradigm shift can correctly be used. The theory describes the earth in terms… Continue reading Continental tectonics
What Geology did to me #1 – beard
I’m a metageologist, trained as a geologist but cast adrift amongst normal folk. I sometimes notice ways in which I’ve been marked by that training. Some are trivial, some not so much. I feel the need for a theme of quick whimsical posts so I’m going to talk about them a bit. Here goes… Geologists… Continue reading What Geology did to me #1 – beard
UPDATED: Copyright, blogging and scientific papers
Is it legitimate to reproduce diagrams from scientific papers in a blog post? Curious, I asked the question of Twitter. It returned two distinct responses. One response, from a pair of scientists and highly respected and active bloggers was (to simplify and paraphrase) that it was OK since you were discussing Science. Asking permission of… Continue reading UPDATED: Copyright, blogging and scientific papers