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- 1From:The New York Times MagazineI constantly worry I'm forgetting a deadline, that I'll be late, that my life is slipping through my fingers. Thinking about geologic time gives me perspective. I wandered my parents' apartment in Hamilton Heights in...
- 2From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 52, Issue 1)George Kovalenko's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English & Literary Arts at the...
- 3From:Geographical (Vol. 93, Issue 7)Geologic time can be hard to get a grip on, with spans so vast human brains boggle. To make things easier, or at least more structured, geologists created the geologic time scale - a system of chronological dating that...
- 4From:This Magazine (Vol. 55, Issue 6)EM DIAL is a queer, triracial, chronically ill poet and educator born and raised in the Bay Area, California, currently living in Toronto, Ontario. A 2022 Kundiman Fellow and recipient of the 2020 PEN Canada New Voices...
- 5From:The Horn Book Magazine (Vol. 98, Issue 3)Sharks: A Mighty Bite-y History by Miriam Forster; illus. by Gordy Wright Primary, Intermediate Abrams 80 pp. g 5/22 978-1-4197-4773-1 $24.99 e-book ed. 978-1-6470-0702-7 $18.65 Forster describes shark and...
- 6From:The Christian Century (Vol. 138, Issue 18)DEEP TIME: A stable earth is all we've ever known: all human civilization has taken place in the Holocene, an 11,700year period of uncharacteristically hospitable climate on this planet. Writer Emmett Fitzgerald says...
- 7From:The Horn Book Magazine (Vol. 97, Issue 6)One Million Oysters on Top of the Mountain by Alex Nogues; illus. by Miren Asiain Lora; trans. from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel Primary, Intermediate Eerdmans 48 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8028-5569-5 $17.99 "How did the...
- 8From:The American Scholar (Vol. 79, Issue 3)Any serious conversation about the planet's climate and our energy future must begin, paradoxically, with a backward look at geologic time. The reason for this is that the way forward is fogged by misunderstandings...
- 9From:SuperScience (Vol. 27, Issue 2)Name: -- Date: -- In "Dung Detective" (pp. 8-9), you read that Karen Chin studies fossilized dinosaur dung from the Mesozoic era. Scientists who study rocks and fossils divide Earth's history into long eras and...
- 10From:Science World/Current Science (Vol. 75, Issue 8)About 4,200 years ago, a 200-yearlong megadrought led to the downfall of human civilizations. Ancient populations were forced to travel long distances in search of water. Recently, evidence of the disaster's impact was...
- 11From:Science World/Current Science (Vol. 74, Issue 9)DIRECTIONS: Read the "Science News" section on pages 2-7 Then test your knowledge, filling in the letters next to the correct answers. 1. What is a muon? (A) one of Saturn's moons (B) a pyramid in Egypt (C)...
- 12From:Booklist (Vol. 90, Issue 8)Ages 16-adult. Radiant shots of Yellowstone National Park, clarifying animation, and labeled maps characterize this stunning introduction to this beautiful site's rich geologic history. The effects of erupting volcanic...
- 13From:Science News (Vol. 190, Issue 8)Humankind's bombs, plastics, domesticated chickens and more have altered the planet enough to usher in a new chapter in Earth's geologic history. That's the majority opinion of a group of 35 experts tasked with...
- 14From:Science News (Vol. 186, Issue 11)THROUGH JANUARY 15,2015 Eighteen works of art offer ways to conceptualize the unfathomable vastness of geologic time. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, WASHINGTON, D.C....
- 15From:Earth Island Journal (Vol. 23, Issue 3)The Geological Society of London is the oldest association of Earth scientists in the world. Its members, as author Mike Davis reports in Rachel's Democracy & Health News, spend a good deal of time dividing the planet's...
- 16From:Smithsonian (Vol. 43, Issue 9)Have human beings permanently changed the planet? That seemingly simple question has sparked a new battle between geologists and environmental advocates over what to call the time period we live in. According to the...
- 17From:Geographical (Vol. 75, Issue 7)Beneath the baking hot plains of northeastern Australia there is a natural museum housing such a wealth of fossils that it almost defies imagination. So abundant are the preserved remains in the ancient rocks at...
- 18From:Geographical (Vol. 80, Issue 12)Cattle teeth found in a prehistoric landfill site at Durrington Walls--a circular earthworks three kilometres from Stonehenge--indicate that the area attracted people in droves from all across the UK as far back as...
- 19From:Smithsonian (Vol. 43, Issue 3)AT THE HEIGHT OF THE CONSTRUCTION of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s--the world's largest and most expensive engineering project up to that point--workers were excavating the equivalent of one Suez Canal every three...
- 20From:Geographical (Vol. 76, Issue 8)GLOBAL After 15 years and three ballots, the world's leading geologists have named a new epoch. The Ediacaran period begins at the end of the last major ice age of the so-called Snowball Earth, or Cryogenian Period, and...