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Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

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This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.

Good catch, I'm sorry I missed the link to the original in the footer. I guess it isn't possible to change a link after it has been posted?

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I've been fascinated with geology ever since I realised that it is really history on an epic scale (living in Edinburgh also helps) - one book that really opened my eyes to the subject is Richard Fortey's The Earth: An Intimate History : http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Intimate-History-Richard-Fortey/...

I found "Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet" by Ted Nield absolutely fascinating. He presented historical theory's as well as modern ones to give the reader a better idea about how drift theory came to be.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0674026594

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post #3

This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.

It is very interesting, but it comes up every election cycle now:

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/Research/Elec2000/GeolElec2000.HT...

Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

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After an election there are so many stories like this explaining why certain voting patterns were pre-determined, or at least extremely likely.

Strangely, people don't write so certainly _before_ the election.

I'd be far more impressed with this type of story if it was published before the election.

Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

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After an election there are so many stories like this explaining why certain voting patterns were pre-determined, or at least extremely likely. Strangely, people don't write so certainly _before_ the election. I'd be far more impressed with this type of story if it was published before the election.

It was published before the election.

Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

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After an election there are so many stories like this explaining why certain voting patterns were pre-determined, or at least extremely likely. Strangely, people don't write so certainly _before_ the election. I'd be far more impressed with this type of story if it was published before the election.

October 10, 201212:49 PM

A month before the election.

Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

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I've been fascinated with geology ever since I realised that it is really history on an epic scale (living in Edinburgh also helps) - one book that really opened my eyes to the subject is Richard Fortey's The Earth: An Intimate History : http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Intimate-History-Richard-Fortey/...

There is a book that connects large-scale geology with the human-scale history by arguing how the former affects the later. It's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.

Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old

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post #19
post #2

I've been fascinated with geology ever since I realised that it is really history on an epic scale (living in Edinburgh also helps) - one book that really opened my eyes to the subject is Richard Fortey's The Earth: An Intimate History : http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Intimate-History-Richard-Fortey/...

There is a book that connects large-scale geology with the human-scale history by arguing how the former affects the later. It's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.

This is a great book. It's fascinating to consider how much of world history has been influenced by where wheat was first cultivated.
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