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Naming Schools after Nobel Laureates
The Washington Post recently ran a story about the late Abdus Salam, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize almost 40 years ago. The piece concerns the politics of naming a building at a Pakistani university in honour of a … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Culture, History, People, Religion
Tagged Abdus Salam, Darwin, evolution, Nobel Prize, physics, Thomas Hunt Morgan, University of Kentucky
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Tunguska’s Kulik
Leonid Kulik is probably another geologist you’ve never heard of. Well, it’s his birthday anyway, and here’s your chance to add a new name to your fact file, just in case you get that call from Jeopardy and the Remarkable … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Culture, Exploration, People
Tagged explosions, Kulik, Russia, Siberia, Soviet Union, Tunguska
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Mantle Plumes May Be Real (or maybe not)
Geophysicist Tuzo Wilson had a creepy daydream. He imagined himself lying at the bottom of a creek, looking up at water flowing overhead. He blew bubbles. They rose, were caught by the current, and drifted away. He came back from … Continue reading
Posted in History, How Geophysics Works, Non-drift Theories, People, Plate Tectonics
Tagged geophysics, Hawaii, hot spots, Meyerhoff, plumes, Romanowicz, seismic tomography, Tuzo Wilson
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Wegener’s Death and Drift’s Hiatus
Over the past few days, I’ve written about Alfred Wegener’s continental drift theory, which is celebrating its 100th year as a spunky idea that explains a lot of our geology. From mountains to earthquakes and deep sea rifts to island … Continue reading
100 Years of Drift: Part 4
Today, we continue with Alfred Wegener and his continental drift theory. Today’s piece will not be pretty. At times, suppression of Wegener’s idea was ugly. There are a lot of reasons for the vilification. He was an outsider, a meteorologist … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Culture, Geology, History, People
Tagged Alfred Wegener, Bullard, continental drift, David Attenborough, Harold Jeffreys
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100 Years of Drift: Part 1
Fifty years ago, we finally figured out why the Earth has mountains. But one hundred years ago, Alfred Wegener had already offered an explanation – it took those extra 50 years for his grand idea to catch on. The continents, … Continue reading
Made of Stardust
Today, I am remembering a childhood hero, astrophysicist/author Carl Sagan. I was 12 when I bought his first book, Planets, from the Life Science Series. I paid for it from money I earned picking potatoes on the family farm in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, People, Philosophy
Tagged Carl Sagan, Planets, science quotes, stardust
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