Editorials
The city of Oxford (UK), where I have relocated since my last editorial, is a provincial metropolis of some 150,000 souls about 90 km northeast of London. Oxford is famous for its ancient collegiate university, with colleges dating back to 1096. The University of Oxford is slightly less well-known for its remarkable Bodleian Library, created in its present form in 1598 by Sir Thomas Bodley. It is one of just six copyright libraries in Britain and Ireland. A copyright library (or ‘library of legal deposit’) is one that, since 1662, has the right to request and store for posterity a copy of every new work published in English. As you can imagine, one copy of every book published in English amounts to quite a few books over the years. The challenge for any of the copyright libraries is where to store them all. For the Bodleian, in the spirit of the iceberg, the answer lies under the surface, where a substantial fraction of its 13 million print items is stored in vast underground vaults.
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February 2015
Gordon Brown
"HAS LIFE EVER EXISTED ON MARS?"
April 2015
John Valley
"TIME’S ARROW AND TIME’S CYCLE"
June 2015
Patricia Dove
"GROWING PAINS IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA"
August 2015
Gordon Brown
"BOUNTIES FROM THE EARTH"
October 2015
Bernard Wood
"RESOURCES AND WAR"
2014 Issues
February 2014
John Valley
"ASTEROID WHAT?"
April 2014
John Valley
"PLAYTHINGS VERSUS THE KILLER ROCK?"
June 2014
Gordon Brown
"KAOLINS: NANOMINERALS WITH A PROUD HERITAGE"
August 2014
Patricia Dove
"NATURAL GAS IN THE EMERGING GLOBAL ENERGY LANDSCAPE"
October 2014
Patricia Dove
"WRESTLING WITH REPRODUCIBILITY IN RESEARCH"
December 2014
Georges Calas
"A BIG FAMILY"
2013 Issues
February 2013
John W. Valley
"THE AGE OF THE EARTH"
April 2013
Georges Calas
"VERSATILE SERPENTINE"
June 2013
Patricia M. Dove
"TWIST AND SHOUT"
August 2013
John W. Valley
"JOURNEY TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE EARTH"
October 2013
James (Tim) I. Drever
"SOME PARTING THOUGHTS"
December 2013
Georges Calas
"LINKS AND LINKS"
2012 Issues
February 2012
Harry (Hap) Y. McSween
"LIVING IN THE FAST LANE"
April 2012
James (Tim) I. Drever
"DECISIONS, DECISIONS"
June 2012
Georges Calas
"BREAKING BOUNDARIES"
August 2012
John W. Valley
"MIGMA VERSUS MAGMA"
October 2012
Georges Calas
"TALES, TALES..."
December 2012
James (Tim) I. Drever
"POLLUTION AND PRESERVATION"
2011 Issues
February 2011
Harry (Hap) Y. McSween
"TO BE EXPLORERS"
April 2011
David J. Vaughan
"THE MASTERY OF IRON"
June 2011
James (Tim) I. Drever
"WATER RESOURCES -- SCIENCE AND VALUES"
August 2011
Harry (Hap) Y. McSween
"IS SCIENCE A CONTACT SPORT?"
October 2011
Georges Calas
"TOURMALINE RESEARCH: UNLOCKING ALI BABA'S CAVE"
December 2011
James (Tim) I. Drever
"PREDICTION IS HARD -- PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE FUTURE"
2010 Issues
February 2010
David J. Vaughan
"EVOLUTION AND EXTINCTION"
April 2010
Harry (Hap) Y. McSween
"HELL ON EARTH"
June 2010
Susan L.S. Stipp
"STRATEGIC OR BLUE SKY RESEARCH?"
August 2010
David J. Vaughan
"SOMETHING IN THE AIR"
October 2010
Harry (Hap) Y. McSween
"THANKS, DR. GIBBS"
December 2010
James (Tim) I. Drever
"WE'VE COME A LONG WAY"
2009 Issues
February 2009
E. Bruce Watson
"THE ECONOMY AND THE MOON"
April 2009
Susan L.S. Stipp
"WHO SHOULD DECIDE HOW RESEARCH FUNDING IS SPENT?"
June 2009
David J. Vaughan
"GEMS, RICHES, WEALTH AND FINANCE"
August 2009
David J. Vaughan
"MAGNETISM AND MESMERISM"
October 2009
Harry (Hap) Y. McSween
"ALL THAT GLITTERS..."
December 2009
Susan L.S. Stipp
"THE DA VINCI PROFILE -- BREADTH AND DEPTH"
2008 Issues
February 2008
Ian Parsons
"HOW ARE WE DOING?"
April 2008
Susan L.S. Stipp
"DEPLETING RESOURCES, ETHICS AND INNOVATION"
June 2008
E. Bruce Watson
"SCIENTIFIC FRONTIERS AND RISKY VERSUS SAFE SCIENCE"
August 2008
E. Bruce Watson
"QUIET REVOLUTION IN THE GEOCHEMICAL SCIENCES"
October 2008
Susan S. L. Stipp
"THE CO2 CHALLENGE -- A CALL TO ACTION"
December 2008
David J. Vaughan
"GREAT SCIENCE OR GREY GOO?
2007 Issues
February 2007
Ian Parsons
"NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T"
April 2007
Michael F. Hochella, Jr.
"TEACHING, EXPLAINED"
June 2007
Ian Parsons
"SCIENCE AND THE POLICYMAKERS"
August 2007
E. Bruce Watson
"RISKING THE FUTURE OF GEOSCIENCE"
October 2007
Susan L.S. Stipp
"FAIRNESS IN EVALUATION: MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL"
December 2007
E. Bruce Watson
"GEOSCIENCE CIRRICULA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY"
2006 Issues
February 2006
Michael F. Hochella, Jr.
"THE POLITICAL MISUSE OF SCIENCE"
April 2006
Michael F. Hochella, Jr.
"SO YOU WANT TO FORM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM"...GOOD LUCK!"
June 2006
Rodney C. Ewing
"TWO PLANETS -- WHICH FUTURE?"
August 2006
Ian Parsons
"VESTIGES AND PROSPECTS"
October 2006
E. Bruce Watson
"ADVISING FUTURE SCIENTISTS"
December 2006
E. Bruce Watson
"GEOSCIENCE ESSENTIALS OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT"
2005 Issues
January 2005
Rodney C. Ewing, Michael F. Hochella Jr., Ian Parsons, and Pierrette Tremblay
"ELEMENTS: BUILDING A NEW BRIDGE"
March 2005
Ian Parsons
"ELEMENTS: GETTING INTO THE SWING"
June 2005
Michael F. Hochella, Jr.
"JUMPING ACROSS THE COLORADO"
September 2005
Michael F. Hochella, Jr.
"THE COST OF SCIENCE"
December 2005
Ian Parsons
"FORMATIVE EVENTS"