June 2009

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Editorial

• Mutterschaft und apfelkuchen. When Ted Nield hears government speak of "multidisciplinarity" he is starting to reach for his gun...
• Back to Basics - Let's hear it for the "Natural Historian" says Richard Crockett

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder - Roughing it - Nina Morgan on the good old days of the oil industry
• READER OFFER! Stunning geological images for the walls of your home...

Geonews

• Fresh hit for "dino-killing asteroid crater".
• Landfill methane threat overblown
• Fire and climate change
• News in Brief - Joe McCall wrestles with a giant snake, and some other items hitting the geo-media
• Gold Standard - Sarah Day on the aftermath of Bre-X and the mew mineral reporting codes

Society at Large

• Chartership News - David Manning on the first ever "Scrutineers' Day", held in March.
• Shell London Lectures
• Youthful geoscientists to meet in China

Reviews

• Four new reviews, by Ted Nield, Chris Carlon, Tony Waltham and Sarah Day

Features

• Digitally remastered - Old wine in new bottles?  Rob Butler and Tony Pedley look at how new value is being added to old data.
• The Scapegoat - Alexis Drahos reinterprets a famous religious icon

Letters

Crossword
Sticks & Stones