In which Max presents a lost picture from the history of paleontology: Charles Walcott’s “Sidney crab” complete with massive claws (actually the appendages of a large radiodont)

A farewell to Minnesota: in which Max hits the road to see the second-oldest surface rocks in the United States (originally posted on August 18, 2024)

In which Max finishes wrestling 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? —Part 2 of 2

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 1 of 2

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