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Decipherment is a statistical exercise before it is anything else.
Every script that has been successfully read was cracked because there was enough of it. Enough text for repeated…
There is a category error built into the way most people look at a shallow sea.
Everything green underwater gets filed as seaweed, and seaweed is algae — a fundamentally…
The useful question in any wetland is not what grows there but what fills it. Rain-fed and groundwater-fed wetlands sitting side by side can support entirely different vegetation. Here are…
Tides are usually explained by the moon, and that explanation is correct and incomplete.
The moon's pull produces a tidal range in the open ocean of roughly a metre. That…
Every gorge answers two questions: what removed the rock, and why did the sides not fall in afterwards. The second is frequently the more interesting. Here are seventeen answers.
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Every lake island is either something that was already there, something that grew, or something somebody built. Which one it is determines everything about the place. Here are fifteen.
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