Learning With Your Feet and Other Ways to Improve Your Timefulness
This week we talk to our guest about time. Extensive time. Time that grounds geologic thinking as a way to unlock the earth’s past. Marcia Bjornerud, Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology at Lawrence University in Wisconsin (and Brian’s neighbor!), joins us to talk about her recent book Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. Listen to the show to hear how you can learn about the world with your feet, find connections to earth science careers, and help your students appreciate time as a means to fully view the world in four dimensions.
Links:
- Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (Princeton University Press)
- A Q&A with Marcia from Princeton University Press
- An edited excerpt from the first chapter, in the online science magazine Nautilus.
- Marcia Bjornerud, Lawrence University
- Marcia’s contributions to the New Yorker’s Elements Column
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