Analogies are the stuff of science. In geology, we frequently employ modern analogies of physical,
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This post is about asymmetry – the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions. They are the
Krakatoa, 1883, and the seas shivered. The eruption, one of the largest in recorded history,
The Saturday Evening Post, March 4, 1944, featured on its cover the iconic Norman Rockwell
A “Nitrate timebomb”. Last week’s media metaphor (Nov 10, 2017), was no doubt intended to
Our blue Earth, rising above the lunar horizon, is an abiding image of our watery
Christmas morning in New Zealand is synonymous with mid-summer barbecues at the beach, deservedly lazy
Saturday August 8, 1829, Felix Mendelssohn and his traveling companion Karl Klingemann, took a boat
The media loves hyperbole. In some ways they remind me of ‘The end is nigh’
The media love natural disasters, even those that don’t exist. Last week (early October, 2017),