Timefulness was longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O.Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing, and was a f inalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. Marcia Bjornerud shows how geologists chart the planets past. A contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, she is also the author of several books for popular audiences - Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World and Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities. Prologue: The allure of timelessness - A call for timefulness - An atlas of time - The. In both words, the emphasis is on the syllable ful. In her last chapter, Bjornerud wisely suggests that to promote timefulness we need spaces where, from an early age, children see that they are on an ancient, sacred path that stretches across timethat growing up and growing old are to be celebrated, not feared.

She has done research in high arctic Norway (Svalbard) and Canada (Ellesmere Island), as well as mainland Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and the Lake Superior region.ījornerud is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Oslo, Norway and University of Otago, New Zealand. By Marcia Bjornerud Princeton, 208 pages, 24.95 Timefulness is a perfect title, if only because the reciprocal analogy with the term mindfulness is perfect. Marcia Bjornerud is a professor of geology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. In Timefulness: How thinking like a geologist can help save the world, Marcia Bjornerud makes the case that geological thinking is the perspective that can save our species, and the biosphere, if not the world. Marcia Bjornerud is a structural geologist whose research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building.

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