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Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts
Friday, 9 December 2022

OzGeographics

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Just a quick post to draw attention to a great YouTuber... and to keep a post or two going to show that this blog is still active (just). Th...
Wednesday, 16 March 2022

Climate Change, Cloud-seeding, Floods, and Volcanic Mayhem

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The Earth’s dynamics are complex and interrelated. For example, the chemical composition of magma below volcanoes in Indonesia has historica...
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Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Appealing to Authority

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I have previously provided some opinion posts (such as this one ) which I take some digs at the state of scientific research at university l...
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Thursday, 22 August 2019

Bottled Tweed Shire Spring Water - The Biffo!

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I’ve been meaning to address the ‘bottled spring water' discussions that have been going on for quite some time in the Northern Riv...
Sunday, 21 August 2016

Cutting Through Mysterious Granite on a Country Highway

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Australia is known for its remoteness. There are some quite remote areas in the Northern Rivers too. Along the escarpment there are rugged a...
Monday, 25 July 2016

Blog Update #8

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The Rocks of the Region page has been a big success and will continue to be expanded on. Unfortunately I've had very little time to do ...
Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Science, Philosophy and Politics

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It is popular these days to start with a narrative and make the data fit in. Rarely do we think about alternative hypotheses other than our...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Geology dance moves

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I'm moving on from my job hoping for more opportunities in the future. I was disappointed with many aspects of my position, not in the l...
Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Blog Update #7

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Just a quick post as a bit of a gap-filler. I just wanted to mention that this blog has reached a huge milestone with over discrete 150,00...
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Friday, 7 August 2015

Don't you hate it when...

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Don't you just hate it when you have information to share but you are not permitted by contracts and commercial in confidence so share i...
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Northern Rivers Geology Immortalized by the National Library of Australia!

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People will have noticed that I have been very quiet of late. Unfortunately there are many family matters which are taking all my spare tim...
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Friday, 3 April 2015

Jesus’ Easter: a geological tour

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Limestone is not common in the Northern Rivers but there are several small locations where it does occur (This picture is from near Tabula...
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Monday, 16 February 2015

Eidsvold Earthquake 2015

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I woke this morning to the news that a town to the west of Bundaberg had experienced a substantial earthquake. Well, substantial by Australi...
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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Don't Panic!

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Don't Panic! I've been very quiet on the blogging front for the last few months. But don't worry! A new post will go live 1st ...
Saturday, 13 December 2014

What do people think I do

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What do people think that geologists do? Well, here is one answer from the Geosphere Blog . Sorry all for the delay in posting. Once ...
Monday, 20 October 2014

Blog Update #6

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Over 100 000 page views for this blog, 3 years and over 130 blog posts. I honestly did not think that there would be so much interest in the...
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Saturday, 27 September 2014

Big Scrub Day - October 2014

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Every year the Big Scrub Landcare group and many other supporters put together a very interesting day. There are many exhibitors for those i...
Monday, 8 September 2014

Volcanic shockwave

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A post a little off topic again today. This post is motivated by several related stories in the media. The first is a follow up from an earl...
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Monday, 1 September 2014

Geological libraries

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Sometimes it is important to get your geological references in the right order. Here is a cartoon by Chris Slane illustrating just how impor...
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Monday, 25 August 2014

ABC reporters cause a volcano to erupt

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" Bararbunga Erupts " was the headline on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Television Bulletins on Saturday night. I...