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"Nature Vibrates with Rhythms"

March 16, 2025

In which Max continues his investigation of the popularity of periodic diastrophism in the first half of the twentieth century

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Pulse of the Solid Earth

February 25, 2025

In which Max explores Thomas Chamberlin’s theory of periodic diastrophism and asks just how big a deal was it anyway?

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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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Now that's how you teach kids about science

January 11, 2025

In which Max gushes about his favorite picture book on dinosaur paleontology, The Iguanodon’s Horn

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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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