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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From the Archive: Comparisons with Teeth
A deep cut: in which Max examines the durability and challenges of actualistic reasoning in paleontology
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Why the Yanks whiffed on drift... was uniformitarianism to blame?
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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