Sunday, August 30, 2015

Geosonnet 31

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Gyrations of a topsy-turvy world Could spur migration of the cryosphere No snowball Earth, just poles and tropics whorled The data which ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Hard rock men and soft rock girls

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Readers with short attention spans who waste too much time on social media may have noticed that Brian Romans has been complaining over on...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

A one-way ticket to an unsuspecting Kepler 452b?

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There has been a bit in the science press about the newly discovered exoplanet, Kepler 452b. This related to the observation that it is in ...
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 ...