Posts treating: "chapters"
Thursday, 28 April 2016
This is one of my periodic mea culpas for a lack of posts. In this case, I have an excuse and I think it's a worthy one. I'm one of a group of people editing a new book on collection storage, due for publication late this year. Or early next year. It's a 650 page monster with 35 chapters and 60 authors and while I've never given birth, I suspect producing this thing will give me some sense of what that's like. When it comes out, buy it. We managed to assemble a fantastic group of authors [...]
The New York DOT has been working on a geotechnical design manual (GDM) since at least 2012. It is a very detailed document that covers pretty much every possible geotechnical aspect of a transportation project. It would be a valuable resource for any geotechnical engineer. Some chapters are still marked draft, but I like their transparency about what has been officially approved by the DOT and what is still under review. [Source: Check out the GDM of the New York DOT. Image:
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This article was originally published online by Geoscientist, the independent fellowship magazine of the Geological Society of London. Afghanistan has been in the news for as long as I can remember, normally as a place of conflict and almost never as a place of diverse landscapes, resources and culture. In 2011, however, I was invited to join a workshop in Leicester on higher education in Afghanistan, meeting a number of geoscience academics from Kabul and beyond. Since then I’ve been [...]
In 2012, David Sepkoski published a book entitled “Rereading the Fossil Record”. One of the chapters, entitled “The Growth of Theoretical Paleontology”, goes in depth about how theoretical paleontology has evolved over the years. Scientists are viewing dinosaurs in many ways that we’ve never viewed them before. Several theories about dinosaurs, such as those pertaining
I need some help from you! One of the chapters in my book, Geology Underfoot in Western Washington is about the beautiful Golden Horn granite at Washington Pass. The chapter describes how granitic magma rises through the crust. The tentative title was ‘How Does Granite Rise in the Crust”? My editor at Mountain Press, James
The new book Nature, Choice and Social Power by Erica Schoenberger of John Hopkins University is available from amazon.com. I got an e-copy and have read the first few chapters that deal with mining. She writes well, so it is easy and pleasant to read. She is not polemic, but sets out the stories and facts
I got this email today from Patric Rasolofosaon, whom I met at my DISC lecture in Paris. He is a world authority on poroelasticity and has a new book co-authored with Bernard Zinszner. They have altruistically made the book free online. Chapters 1-3 (of 7) are available now. It is a rare treat when a first-class scientist writes a book synthesizing the state of knowledge and experimental evidence in any field. On behalf of geophysicists everywhere, thank you Patrick (and [...]
My favorite rocks are those that tell multiple stories – rocks that are “palimpsest” with subsequent “chapters” of their biography capable of being teased out, based on different features to be observed in the rock. Click to enlarge What can we see in this small sample of the Silurian-aged Tonoloway limestone, from Corridor H, West Virginia? To start with, it’s sedimentary, and stratified. There are multiple layers of fine-grained gray
On very rare occasions, I get to write big fancy reports (or long, complicated chapters for those reports) that don't fit in a specific format and can't just be copied over from an earlier report/another project. The very first thing I do is write an outline with suggested numbering for subsections, figures, tables, and appendices.
The second thing I do is grab all potential
On the plane to the site I dipped into Nasim Taleb’s latest book, Antifragile. I read a few chapters and have stowed the book for the return fight. But I picked up enough to know that an antifragile system is one that thrives on change, shock, time, and other perturbing factors. An antifragile system is
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My day was turning out to be the shitty culmination of a shitty week, when – dingdong! Mark Witton’s Pterosaurs alighted at my doorstep. What a beauty! I’m far from capable of reviewing it as I’ve only read the first 3 chapters (in about as many minutes), but it’s safe to say that my day