In which Max presents a lost picture from the history of paleontology: Charles Walcott’s “Sidney crab” complete with massive claws (actually the appendages of a large radiodont— a relative of Anomalocaris)
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From the Archive: Minnesota Gneiss
A farewell to Minnesota: in which Max hits the road to see the second-oldest surface rocks in the United States (originally posted on August 18, 2024)
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"Long live Lyell and his doctrine of uniformitarianism!"
In which Max finishes wrestling with a question that has always bugged him: how did uniformitarianism come to be associated with the view that nature’s laws are invariant in space and time? —Part 2 of 2
Lyell, interrupted
In which Max wrestles with a question that has always bugged him: how did uniformitarianism come to be associated with the view that nature’s laws are invariant in space and time? (It’s interesting, I promise!) —Part 1 of 2
From the Archive: The Importance of Background Theory, or Why James Hall Left Mountains out of his Theory of Mountain Building
In which Max explores one of the most famous zingers in the history of geology: that James Hall left mountains out of his theory of mountain building
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Terrible uniformitarian poetry
In which Max shares some terrible scientific poetry from the 1940s. Just because
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