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I hate press releases that do not link to the work. But what a neat study area: https://hazen.carnegiescience.edu/research/evolutionary-system-mineralogy https

• mncharity 4y ago
  > But what a neat study area Hazen created mineral evolution as an organizational scaffold to help his intro mineralogy students. And then incrementally pushed it younger, eventually becoming a NOVA episode. Wielding primary research to create more accessible and powerful content for young students, seems massively underutilized. And very poorly incentivized. The most used college intro astronomy texts can't be bothered to even get the color of the Sun right. What might science education content look like, if it were much more mineral evolution and much less yellow Sun?
  • docmechanic 4y ago
    Yes, his book, The Story of Earth, just took the top of my head right off. Just fascinating to think of the co-evolution of minerals and biological life. This of course, should impact the world building schemes for writers of hard science fiction.