Bleached moa bones projected out from the steep bank of the nearly dry gully. This was exciting, as there were clearly several …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …
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What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Bob Carter, Greenhouse Warming, and One Alarmed Palaeontologist
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI met Bob Carter after one of my fossil-collecting mates, Duncan McLeod, came across some shell fossils in a ‘marl pit’ on …
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Climate & Earth Systems
How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …
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Did Queensland Rainforest Spread when Cultural Burning Stopped?
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“This is the Giant Stinger tree – avoid it”. Work place health and safety now out of the way, I could then …
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Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Australia’s Black Thursday Fires 1851 – how big and why?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHave you noticed? Despite Australia’s on-going fire disaster, there are no shortage of reports telling us to … relax – it’s nothing …
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What happens when a seal swallows a lump of limestone? *** The broad theme of my back-packing trip last year was to …
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Do we have a submerged ‘Doggerland‘ in New Zealand? In 1950 a boat, the HMNZS ‘Lachlan’ dredged a sample of “lignite” from …