From the Archive: Minnesota Gneiss
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2024/8/17/minnesota-gneiss-again
Published: June 5, 2026 13:39
A farewell to Minnesota: in which Max hits the road to see the second-oldest surface rocks in the United States
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"Long live Lyell and his doctrine of uniformitarianism!"
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026/5/2/long-live-lyell
Published: May 2, 2026 21:23
In which Max finishes wrestling with a question that has always bugged him: how did uniformitarianism come to be associated with the view that nature’s laws are invariant in time and space? —Part 2 of 2
Lyell, interrupted
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026/4/24/lyell-interrupted
Published: April 24, 2026 15:34
In which Max wrestles with a question that has always bugged him: how did uniformitarianism come to be associated with the view that nature’s laws are invariant in space and time? (It’s interesting, I promise!) —Part I of II
From the Archive: The Importance of Background Theory, or Why James Hall Left Mountains out of his Theory of Mountain Building
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/1/31/the-importance-of-background-theory-p5w5w
Published: March 31, 2026 13:41
In which Max asks whether James Hall really left mountains out of his theory of mountain building (as J.D. Dana famously alleged)
Terrible uniformitarian poetry
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026/3/23/terrible-uniformitarian-poetry
Published: March 23, 2026 17:15
In which Max shares some terrible scientific poetry from the 1940s. Just because
Beyond "Rocks versus Clocks": Glimpses of a New Philosophy of Molecular Clock Dating
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026/3/14/beyond-rocks-vs-clocks
Published: March 15, 2026 17:00
In which Max Dresow and Katherine Valde glimpse a new philosophy of molecular clock dating
From the Archive: Comparisons with Teeth
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026/2/24/comparisons-with-teeth-redux
Published: February 24, 2026 17:04
A deep cut: in which Max examines the durability and challenges of actualistic reasoning in paleontology
Burgess Beasties and Ediacaran Enigmas
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2026/1/25/burgess-beasties
Published: January 25, 2026 21:43
In which Max finally concludes two earlier posts with a double-duty post-a-ganza on the interpretation of Ediacaran macrofossils
From the Archive: Lords of Marble and the Spear
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2023/3/3/lords-of-marble-and-the-spear-repost
Published: November 5, 2025 17:25
In which Max asks what an argument for repatriating a fossil might look like in the absence of demonstrable illegality in the acquisition of that fossil
What the Actual Hell is Going On (Or, the Great Reg Sprigg Nature Letter "Rejection" Mystery...)
http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2025/11/2/wtf
Published: November 2, 2025 20:19
In which Max blows your little mind