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Henderson unfurled his towel over the sparkling sands, stretched out luxuriously under a cobalt sky, and sighed. Fitting compensation for a hectic year of research, they'd said. Just get out there and relax. Think of anything but science for once. / The rhythmic collapse of waves on the shore was reminiscent of something in quantum mechanics. I'll bet the sand is mainly tectosilicates, he thought, probably alpha-quartz. The towel was cotton, and his trunks were Rayon, produced he recalled by acetylation of cellulose. Cobalt blue probably represents a range of wavelengths centered somewhere between 420 and 460 nanometres.. / Henderson's right hand idly toyed with the portable Dobson Spectrophotometer before he raised it to his eye for another look. No doubt about it, he thought, concentrations of ozone over this part of the beach are higher than elsewhere.. .

"Well looking back I suppose it's been going on for quite some time, but I only noticed we were drifting apart during the last 50 million years. .."

Yes I agree that we've reached the magnetic North Pole. What I'm unsure about is whether anyone has previously noticed this bloody great solenoid..!?

SHE was a Tectonic Plate. HE was several thousand cubic miles of Boiling Magma. TOGETHER they would MOVE A NATION / "CONTINENTAL DRIFTERS" - A STORY OF MOLTEN LOVE ON GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALES

Don't look at ME like that..! It's not MY fault..!

The Second World Wart

The radiocarbon dating technique

65 MILLION YEARS AGO: Relax everyone, it's just an asteroid. Asteroids are natural. / 79 AD: Don't worry Pompeii, it's only a volcano! Volcanoes are perfectly natural..! / APRIL 14, 1912: Good news everybody - seems we hit an iceberg! We're sure lucky that icebergs are natural..! / TODAY: Droughts, floods, wild weather, rising sea levels, the whole climate change thing .. . all natural. / Experts through the ages

Tips for saving the planet, #12. If you come across a baby meteorite, don't go anywhere near it. You might attract its mother.

That was quite a storm we had last night! Did you hear that rain..? / .. .I wonder how the guttering's holding up..?