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You're not missing much Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.

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A girl, a pack, a forest, a river Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Volcano monitoring good: Republican antiscientism getting tedious

Category: environment

The geoblogosphere has rightly been up in arms today about the idiotic comments of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who ended his list of examples of what he viewed as wasteful spending in the US stimulus bill by decrying the $140...

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What is education for, anyway?

Category: public science

It's about more than passing tests - if we do it right.

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Note to media: "speculation" is not a synonym for "discovery"

Category: ranting

breathless reporting from the AAAS conference is starting to annoy me.

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The rightful place of science: putting us in ours

Category: environment

Science doesn't need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.

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US Immigration: Computer says No

Category: bloggery

I managed to fly directly into Raleigh-Durham yesterday. The flight arrived on time, I hadn't checked any baggage, and I was feeling even more optimistic about getting to the hotel before the evening kicked off when I realised that most...

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It's Earth's Official Birthday!

Category: antiscience

I say official, because, just like the Queen's, the date does not actually mean much from a natal perspective. Nonetheless, the night preceding, or the morning of, October 23rd, 4004 BC is the date that Archbishop Ussher, after a bit...

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The comprehension gap

Category: ranting

The human foibles behind the credit crunch are very familiar to this scientist.

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Crackers and me

Category: ranting

I preface these comments with the following two disclaimers: (1) PZ Myers has the right to write what he likes on his blog, and he certainly has the right to dispose of items in his possession, be they (supposedly) edible...

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Aetogate: the final round?

Category: academic life

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology weighs in on accusations of intellectual thievery

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Fear and loathing in Johannesburg (but some hope too)

Category: bloggery

My readers may or may not have heard about the xenophobic attacks that have been taking place in some of the poorer districts of Johannesburg over the past week or so, which have claimed almost 50 lives so far and...

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