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August 2014

Editorial

Deadlier than the male

Ted Nield has an example of how casual sexism can kill, and the unfortunate unintended consequences of decisions taken for all the right reasons

 

Opinion

Plastic spring

Chris Mackenzie is less worried about carbon dioxide than man-made organic molecules

 

Features

Crowdsourcing science

Helen Quinn investigates the potential and limitations of ‘citizen science’ for geology

 

Nothing new under the Sun god

John Dixon explores the antiquity of earthquake-proof building construction

 

Online Special

Carbon capture and storage

Bryan Lovell gives a personal account of a recent GSL-hosted conference on CCS, and the events that gave rise to it

 

Society News

August special offer

There's a special cut-price subscription to the Full Book Collection available this month!

 

Society awards

Nomination for the next round of Society Awards is open!

 

The great Geobakeoff

Sarah Day has the results in the greatest geological cake-making competition ever held in the entire history of the world

 

Books & Arts

Reviews

Four new books reviewed by Steve Rowlatt, Maurice Tucker, John Milsom and Mark Tyrer.

 

People

An old stick and his carrots

Nina Morgan discovers what James Hutton got up to in his spare time

 

Obituaries

John Myles Bowen 1928-2013

Pioneer of North Sea Oil who discovered the Brent and Nelson oilfields

 

Adolf Seilacher 1925-2014

Distinguished palaeontologist, pioneer of trace fossil studies and philosopher of form and function