Friday, July 24, 2015

Geosonnet 30

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The periodic dinner tables host A smorgasbord of elemental food. Without the nutrient that’s needed most, The spread of life’s substa...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

The biodiversity of topography

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The central Australian desert is an extreme arid environment.   For 20 million years, the continent has been drying, its rivers turning...
Monday, June 15, 2015

The Tim Hunt sleight of hand

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The internet has been all atwitter about the blatantly sexist remarks made by Nobel laureate Tim Hunt earlier this week, at a women in scie...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Geosonnet 29

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The scent from Madagascar’s fine perfume Enhances ice cream, fragrances the bath Beyond this orchid spice a shadow looms: A mass extincti...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

Prime Minister's Business Advisory Chair loses his marbles.

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On Friday, Maurice Newman, the chair of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, wrote a frothing opinion article in The Australian ...
Sunday, May 03, 2015

Geosonet 28

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The Mesozoic ended with a splat But what about a vastly older time? Archean life was breathing algal mat Did asteroids destroy them...
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Saturday, May 02, 2015

Anonymity in peer review

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As anyone who follows science-related social media knows by now, a PLOS journal recently rejected a paper by Dr. Fiona Ingleby , based par...
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Friday, May 01, 2015

Carnival of Space #403

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Back in the days before Tumblr and facebook and twitter, people wrote blogs, read other blogs, and collate series of posts about common them...