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Climate zones, palaeo-climate and your 2018/19 coursework!
Regional physical geography is a bit dated these days with a greater emphasis being placed on…
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Chilling stars and the origin of complex life?
Do you owe your existence to a supernova? It is perhaps rather far-fetched but for some…
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Space-time substitution, but not as we know it Captain!
One of the problems in physical geography is that things are a bit slow. If you…
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Nuclear power, tsunamis and the jökulhaup?
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on the 12 March 2011 was a direct result of the Tōhoku…
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Snowball or slush ball?
A global glaciation sounds like something out of a disaster movie in which the intrepid heroine…
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Ploughs, plagues and the Anthropocene
What has the Black Death got to do with global warming? You might well ask but…
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What’s in a bell curve?
Geographers like statistics; they allow us to test for significant differences between samples and to look…
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Rhetoric as a guide in shaping/reviewing a piece of communication
Rhetoric hails from Ancient Greece and along with grammar and logic is one of the three…
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Sandcastles, trivialising science?
Most scientists agree that we have an image problem. This is serious at a time when…
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New Forensics textbook published by BU academics
Profs Matthew Bennett and Marcin Budka have just published the textbook Digital Technology for Forensic Footwear…