Showing posts with label beer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beer. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Biblical genesis most likely of Ordovician age


One of the reasons why Agesearch is still alpha is that it sometimes returns false positives e.g. when stratigraphic terms are ambiguous such as 'Canadian'.
I am testing this by feeding Agesearch with terms which should have no chronostratigraphic context, such as 'beer' or 'pizza' etc.

After it surprisingly turned out that beer does have a stratigraphic context, I formulated some more provocative queries.
The definetely funniest result was Ordovician as the best stratigraphic context for the query 'bible genesis'.

Ha! in stratigraphic terms this would indeed be a good compromise between the creationists and scientists point of view ;).

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Eocene beer


Finally I found something on the web which indeed relates geology and beer and is NOT about drinking;)

This blog on Geology News reports about beer which is brewed by 'Fossil Fuel Brewing Co.'. The company produces beer with yeast which was extracted from the gut of an Eocene insect found in a piece of fossil amber.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Is Beer bad for Science?

In this blog we had looked at some social factors in science already. Geologists have the reputation for really liking beer. But what does it do to science? Read more at FREAK Shots.