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 I of II

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

In which Max shares some terrible scientific poetry from the 1940s. Just because

In which Max Dresow and Katherine Valde glimpse a new philosophy of molecular clock dating

In which Max finally concludes two earlier posts with a double-duty post-a-ganza on the interpretation of Ediacaran macrofossils