August 2010

Editorial

• Science and democracy - Ted Nield has a feeling that scientific questions cannot be decided by a show of hands
• Top of the pops? - Rob Butler thinks that the music industry has something to teach academics as they obsess over citations

People

• Distant Thunder - Nina Morgan samples the fare at William Buckland's dinner table
• Obituaries - In this month's print issue - Graham Leslie Hopkins (1950-2010)
• Carousel (print issue only)
• Laud of the isles - Art historian Alexis Drahos on the geology of JWM Turner's watercolour, "Loch Coriskin"

Geonews

• Cover Story - An Ordovician "Burgess Shale".  Ian Randall reports.
• Cold water poured on colling theory - Sam Shead examines the climatological implications of the revelation that geologists find no evidence for increased erosion after the uplift of the Himalayan Plateau.

Opinion

• Two new reviews - by Ted Nield and Joe Brannan
• Tertiary to-do - Andy Gale introduces two opposing pieces on whether or not stratigraphers should scrap the "Tertiary".
• The E-Den Project - Sarah Day visits a little bit of Cornwall in Soho Square, to examine plans for the county's renewable energy future.

Features

• Arctic Russia - minerals and mineral resources. Geoff Glasby and Yuri Voytekhovsky on the economic implications for Russia as the Arctic warms...

Society at Large

• Nominations for Society Awards invited for 2010 (Print only)
• Nominations for Honorary Fellowship invited (Print only)
• Fellows are informed of new Regulations relating to Bye-law 6.22 (Grievance Procedures). (Print only)
• Fellows encouraged to renew online by Direct Debit (Print only)
• Rare book of the month - Michael McKimm discusses an early children's fossil manual

Letters

Sticks & Stones
Crossword