Monday, February 18, 2019

Geosonnet 51

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When oxygen and oceans mixed worldwide Out dropped the world’s first heavy metal band With silica and iron side by side This rocking ...
Saturday, February 09, 2019

Sierra Sequoias from space

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I wrote last year about the big trees of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. One if the things that interested me was the ability of...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Book Review: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

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By Ian Doescher This is a stage adaptation of the plot of the original Star Wars movie, written in Iambic pentameter. It’s not done to...
Sunday, December 09, 2018

Book review: The Great Way

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The Way into Chaos The Way into Magic The Way into Darkness By Harry Connolly The Great Way is an epic Fantasy Trilogy by Harr...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

The Greenland impact crater

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This is a brief note on the recent Science Advances paper on the Hiawatha Impact crater, a large, recent crater which lies under the Hi...
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Sunday, December 02, 2018

Book review: Eaten by a Giant Clam: Great Adventures in Natural Science

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By Joseph Cummins This book combines the biographies of about two dozen natural scientists from the age of European colonialism. It ...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

Sierra Sequoias

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On our most recent family holiday back in America, I wanted to take the kids to see the Giant Sequoias of the Southern Sierra Nevada. I...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Book Review: Sharp Ends, by Joe Abercrombie

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Sharp Ends is a dozen short stories of the sword and sorcery variety (more sword, less sorcery), set in a bleak, dark ages type setting....