Title: Re: paleonet Academic satire
At 8:12 PM -0400 10/12/04, bivalve wrote:
> None of these satires focus on
geologists or paleontologists. It seems to me that we were portrayed
mainly as boring professors or evil oilmen until
> "Jurassic Park". Any examples?<
Not exactly satire, but Geology Today
some years back had a two-part series on geologists in mysteries.
Michael Chabon (Mysteries of Pittsburgh,
Adventures of Cavalier and Clay) has an excellent short story
called "A Model World" that can be found in a collection of
the same name. I consider modelers to be earth scientists, if
not geologists. We don't actually meet the modeler in the story
(if I recall correctly), but the protagonists wanders into his study
during a party and, um, messes with a 'run' for personal
reasons.
Bill
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