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The Revolution Will Be Clumpy
From The Sieve: Geologists are able to tell you the exact history of the waxing and waning of glaciers over the past five million years because microscopic creatures in the ocean have been unwittingly...
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The Rise of the Adirondacks
From The Sieve: The Adirondacks are something of a paradox. Made from some of the oldest rocks on Earth, they are one of the youngest mountain ranges in existence. Pushing their way through the younger...
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How to Win an Argument with a Climate Skeptic
From The Sieve: Climate science is an extremely complicated discipline. Climate change skeptics and deniers, I believe, thrive on this complexity. They highlight what is not known or not agreed upon to...
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Evolution and the Brown Mouse Lemur
From The Sieve: The rainforests of Madagascar highlight, with great clarity, the power the physical environment exerts on evolution. As a study abroad student in the fall of 2006, I was researching the...
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Great Moments in Earth History: The Messinian Salinity Crisis and the...
Credit: Ocean Drilling Project, Texas A&M University From The Sieve: Around 6 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became separated from the Atlantic. Cut off from the world’s oceans, it began...
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Great Moments in Earth History: Colonization of Land by Plants
From The Sieve: Up until around 500 million years ago, the continents of Earth were practically lifeless, harboring – at most – slimy mats of bacteria on rocky, barren wastelands. Around this time...
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Great Moments in Earth History: The Hadean
From The Sieve: A polished section of the oldest known piece of Earth. Credit: NASA No complete rocks have survived to tell of the formative years following Earth’s formation some 4.56 billion years...
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Cats and Isotopes
From The Sieve: The African Wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica). Credt: Sonelle. Cats. The very mention of them has the power to generate innumerable lazy hits on a blog post. If one were to do an...
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