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Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://cville.online/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> there was a billion years of <a href="https://cville.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> on this planet that just wasn't terribly interesting. Thankfully we live in a much more interesting span of a billion years <a href="https://cville.online/tags/boringbillion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boringbillion</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Billion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_B</span><span class="invisible">illion</span></a></p>
💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Earth's Billion-Year Balancing Act<br>--<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-billion-year.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-02-earth-bi</span><span class="invisible">llion-year.html</span></a> &lt;-- shared technical article<br>--<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1130/GSATG423C.1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> &lt;-- shared paper<br>--<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geologichistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geologichistory</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BoringBillion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoringBillion</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BalancedBillion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BalancedBillion</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/earthhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earthhistory</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lifeonearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lifeonearth</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmosphere</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/oxygenation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oxygenation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/structuralgeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>structuralgeology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tectonics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/complexlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexlife</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/eukaryote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryote</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platetectonics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/crust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crust</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mantle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mantle</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/core" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>core</span></a></p>
llewelly<p>the Boring Billion<br>a billion years of Earth<br>known mostly from<br>boring deep holes<br>in rocks quite old<br>trust me<br>it's exciting<br>not nearly so boring<br>as you've been told</p><p>see these<br>vase-shaped amoebae<br>their diversity doth fluctuate<br>to some essential conditions<br>it must relate</p><p>these several shifting<br>isotope ratios,<br>oh what tales they tell</p><p>and here or there<br>may be the origin<br>of Eukaryotes<br>or multicellular life<br>or even fungi</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/BoringBillion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoringBillion</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a></p>
Andy Baker<p>We had another packed class of Earth and Environmental Science students this week. </p><p>The GEOS1211 group got a recap of the 'scientific method' and how hypotheses are developed, tested, and sometimes rejected. </p><p>Indrani Mukherjee gives an example of the 'boring billion's years of Earth history, and how she found it wasn't so boring after all.</p><p>And to help understand how science really works, we played 'the scientific method is crap' TEDx talk by Teman Cooke. If you ever wondered about science in practice, here's the link<br><a href="https://youtu.be/j12BBcKSgEQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/j12BBcKSgEQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/earthscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earthscience</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/environmentalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalscience</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TEDx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TEDx</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/boringbillion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boringbillion</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/UNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNSW</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a></p>
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