New Zealand Geology

Goodbye Gondwana? New Zealand biogeography, geology, and the problem of circularity.

Vicariance is potentially a key biogeographic process (Rosen, 1978) that physically disrupts populations— typically through geological upheaval—and leads to genetic divergence and speciation (Avise, 2000). One of the most dramatic and best-known cases of vicariance is the perceived role of plate tectonics in mediating the widespread “Gondwanan” distribution of taxa currently limited to southern...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

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Futurewatch Jennifer Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

es some significant research into brain functioning. The mental habits we are learning as we use the Internet are altering our capabilities to read, and for thinking. New habits create new brain connections , while older established ones wither or fail to form. This brain plasticity is a great quality, but it also favours "primitive" mental functions, such as quick decision making, over intelle...

Geology of the Carrizozo Quadrangle, New Mexico

Every fall since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society (NMGS) has held an annual Fall Field Conference that explores some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed geoscience papers. These books have set the national s...