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About this site

This site is aimed at my fellow taxpayers – we who pay for most of this science to be done!  But I hope I’m sufficiently authoritative that scientists too will find it useful.

 

The site aims to outline the History of the Planet in words that even I can understand.

 

We are constantly bombarded with tit-bits of information, from television programmes, articles, even books.  I wanted to know how these individual jigsaw pieces fitted together into a coherent story. 

 

Scientists too have a need for a simple distillation.  It’s clear from reading the literature, that many of them have little idea how their particular field fits into the overall picture. (Click here for the ‘oxygen’ story.)  

 

This is not a criticism.  It’s a direct result of the ‘focus’ needed to do good research. 

 

My filing cabinet bulges with books, and with 15 years worth of cuttings from Top Drawer periodicals.  I’m confident that the broad story that I tell is right.  But the details keep changing, and some of my facts and dates will be out of date.  Some will even be plain wrong, though only a few I hope.

 

Constructive criticism and authoritative information for inclusion would be very welcome (please click here).

 

Bev Pease