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Apples and Oranges?
The question about evolution posed to contestants at the recent Miss USA Pageant has generated a lot of discussion on the internet. Much of this has, of course, focused on the sad state of scientific...
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(We Don’t) Expect the Unexpected
“Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.” – Heraclitus (writing some time...
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Nothing But Blue
Eastern Saskatchewan Cruising down the Pembina Highway in the middle of the day, I had one of those moments of perfect stillness and perfect clarity, the sort of moment that only happens when you are...
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Illness of a Friend
Hand-labelled nineteenth century specimen boxes record early scientific expeditions to the Lake Winnipeg area. I just heard this week that a friend is very ill. This friend has not been “in robust...
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Coincidence?
The photo on the left is © Fred Spoor and derived from scitechdaily.com. The image on the right is from wikimedia commons (I admit that I did skew this satellite image slightly). Apparently our...
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Tech. Savvy?
I have spent much of the past week assembling a geological map on the computer. While I was doing this technical task, I had plenty of time to think about other things … like the changing nature of...
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World Water Life
Whale Cove, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick: a still morning, with a herring weir on the horizon This morning I awoke from a dream. I was standing on a darkened shore, looking out toward the unbroken...
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Travelling Hopefully
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. – Robert Louis Stevenson A road tunnel in Munich I seem to have spent most of October travelling rather hopefully. This hope was well-founded, as...
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The Past is a Big Country
Contemplating the Trans-Canada Timeline In the past few weeks there seems to have been a lot of discussion of evolution in the popular press. Or rather, there has not been an awful lot about evolution...
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The Raft of the Medusa
There is really no way of knowing what the media, scientific or otherwise, will grab onto. A week ago, at the Geological Society of America meeting in Vancouver, I presented a descriptive talk that may...
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The Bones of the Earth
Rivière-du-Loup, Québec: August, 2018 This summer, while walking on the shore at Rivière-du-Loup, I was struck by the way in which the spectacular steeply-dipping sedimentary beds “dive” and become...
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