A geophysical rant
In an ideal world, there would be a continuous dialogue between geologists and geophysicists. Sadly, there seems to have been little progress in that direction in the last fifty years.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled ………. penguins?
But who was Peter Piper, and what is his connection with penguins?
Rand and Patel
We have our own Ayn Rand. We have a Home Secretary cast in her image. We have Priti Patel.
A confusion of units
Gravity units are a mess. About half of all surveys have their results reported in the c,g,s unit, the mGal, and half in the S.I unit, which differs by a factor of ten. And very few people have any idea of why the Eötvös unit is defined in the way that it is.