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Extraordinary or ordinary?: West responds to CBS about latest paper

We agree with them that glass could be formed a lot of different ways. We don’t have a problem with that,” said Allen West, a retired oil and gas executive who is one of the leading proponents of the theory. “You can get them from grass fires but you also get melt glass from lightning, volcanic eruptions and you also get it from cosmic impacts. The trick is being…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Mark U. Boslough

As a rule, the Tusk is scrupulously clean of politics. There is a reference in my own blog bio to being a former conservative policy staffer in the US Senate, but that is background and not polemics. I am old fashioned and believe politics is generally if not inherently destructive of sound inquiry. The more political a scientist appears to me, the less likely I am to take him or her…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question