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Why the Yanks whiffed on drift... was uniformitarianism to blame?

April 28, 2025

In which Max considers the question on everyone’s mind: whether uniformitarianism was a factor in Americans’ rejection of continental drift in the 1920s

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Second Thoughts on Lyell

February 17, 2025

In which Max has second thoughts about some s*** he said about Charles Lyell

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Problematica: The Charles Lyell Collection

February 17, 2025

In which Max has assembled all his essays on Charles Lyell in one convenient place

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From the Archive: “Truth also has its Paleontology,” or When Pragmatism Met Uniformitarianism

December 28, 2024

In which we dip into the archive one more time. Our question: what does “paleontology” have to do with the pragmatist theory of truth?

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Going global: geology between Lyell and Suess

May 22, 2024

Problematica #20! In which Max explores two titans of nineteenth century geology using fictional characters of their own creation, Lyell’s amphibious being and Suess’s extraterrestrial observer (Part 3 of 3)

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Alien versus Amphibian: War of the Worldviews?

March 20, 2024

In which Max explores two titans of nineteenth century geology using fictional characters of their own creation, Lyell’s amphibious being and Suess’s extraterrestrial observer (Part 1 of 3)

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