Guest Thinkers — September 28, 2010

Last call for Mt. Hood questions

I’m putting out the last call for questions about Mt. Hood magmatism for Dr. Adam Kent of Oregon State University. He has offered to take your questions about his recentNature Geosciences paper on the nature of magmatic evolution and eruptive triggers at Mt. Hood, so if you have anything you’d like to ask him, send me your questions at eruptionsblog at gmail or leave a comment.

Send me your questions!

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

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The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

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The Well

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

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