The Rock Doc
Meet Kirsten
E. Kirsten Peters is a native of the rural Northwest, but she was trained as a geologist at Princeton and Harvard. Follow her at www.rockdoc.wsu.edu and on Twitter @RockDocWSU. This column is a service of the College of Sciences at Washington State University.
Japan trades nuclear power for fossil fuels
The last of Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants has been shut down, a turn of events that makes Japan the first major economy of this century to run without operating any such reactors.
The Rock Doc
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Dog breeding, training for helping disabled
The science of breeding dogs is serious business, and nowhere more so than with the dogs destined to become service animals. Linda Hardesty and her husband Dan volunteer to home-raise puppies for Canine Companions for Independence (CCI).
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Improving on staff of life
About 10,000 years ago Earth’s climate lurched from bitter Ice Age conditions to the much balmier time in which we live today.
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Good in black, even if you’re an old dino-bird
I’ve never met Ryan Carney of Brown University, but he is my kind of man.
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Research indicates fracking waste led to Ohio earthquakes
The solid earth is riddled with faults. Each fault is a plane of weakness in the rocks that make up the outer rind of the Earth.
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Basic biology implicated in wild spending spree
It’s pretty common for us “little peanuts” to feel some envy about the wealthy and better-known citizens among us.
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Steps forward, back for world’s nukes
PULLMAN — My household has no less than three nightlights that give good service to me and mine.
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Powerful pressures, special waters
PULLMAN — It does seem like there’s something magical about artesian wells.
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Ceaseless change dominates our dynamic planet
PULLMAN — Nothing about Earth history is static or unchanging. That’s particularly true of climate, and thereon hangs more than one interesting tale including recent news of a scientific advance in understanding how past climate has changed.
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And a little child shall lead them
PULLMAN — Little kids are amenable to learning new habits — generally much more so than those of us who are set in our ways because this isn’t our first rodeo.
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Brain chemicals hit below the belt
PULLMAN — If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to eat right and trim down, be forewarned that medical science shows your brain has it in for you and will actively promote your failure on two different fronts.
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