Louis Agassiz is fairly awesome.  In particular, he was the first to propose ice ages, and to identify glacial deposits.  But I wonder, what if science hadn't happened during an ice age, when there wasn't a Greenland ice sheet to take as a model:  Would we have ever imagined ice sheets, if we hadn't been able to see them?  Geology is such a breathtakingly speculative science.   _
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11:03:23 PM, Saturday 9 July 2011

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 Experiments are ongoing, but I think I might abandon the blogmass for Google Plus. Facebook was too slimy, and twitter too constrained, but Google+ lets me do everything I do here, and the controls make it feasible for both more personal stuff and more generic web-presence. _
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