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The Monterey Fan

The Monterey Fan

By Emma Morris:  March. 2017 The modern Monterey Fan is one of the largest turbidite systems located off the west coast of the United States and you can see it on Google Earth! It is a sand-rich system that has a radial shape (McHugh and Ryan, 2000) and is composed of ~600m (1969ft) of sediment […]

It is so simple to be difficult, yet so ...

It is so simple to be difficult, yet so difficult to be simple

By Sumon Bhattacharyya This article first appeared on LinkedIn, July 2nd, 2016 Let me begin my blog quoting a well known Indian poet, Late Harindranath Chattopadhyay on simplicity… This is possibly one of the most philosophically challenging idea ever simplified by a poet… Understanding and explaining any complex problem using simple explanations is notoriously challenging. […]

Any intelligent fool can make things big...

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

By Sumon Bhattacharyya This article was first published on LinkedIn, July 4th, 2016 To follow the tradition, let me begin this article by quoting Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher who was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades, who […]