Mohorovičić’s Fault
The last twelve months have not been kind to Croatia, thanks to the jostling of crustal blocks for space as the northern edge of Africa advances relentlessly towards Europe.
Gabert’s complaint
One of the most prized possessions in Western Australia’s Battye Library is the manuscript of the diary kept by Joseph-Paul Gaimard during the first half of the planned (but never to be completed) round-the-world scientific voyage of the French corvette Uranie. For Western Australians its main interest is in the pages devoted to the ship’s two-week stay in Shark Bay, in 1818.
80 years, two photographs
Ayn Rand hated government, and Trump’s calls to ‘drain the swamp’ in Washington would have been music to her ears
The mystery of Mayotte
In May 2018, something very curious happened. The marine area immediately to the east of Mayotte, the easternmost major island in the Comoros chain, became seismically active.
Bye bye Bourgeois?
Gilles Bourgeois, Ayn Rand’s ultimate disciple, seems to have disappeared from LinkedIn.
Rossel & Co.
When I first began working in the eastern part of Papua New Guinea, I was struck by the quite aggressively English names of the major features of its geography. But then, as our project moved offshore, a French influence began to appear.