Strata: Stories from Deep Time with Laura Poppick

Join #secularaz we as welcome special guest Laura Poppick, science journalist and the author of the new book "Strata: Stories from Deep Time." Laura Poppick is a science and environmental journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and elsewhere. She has been listed as a finalist for the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award and the Maine Literary Awards. Her debut book, Strata: Stories from Deep Time (W.W. Norton), provides context for modern environmental change by exploring four other moments of global transformation in Earth’s deep geologic history. "Strata" is described as a revelatory journey through four moments in Earth’s deep past, and their lessons for our future. The epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata―ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this brilliantly original debut work, science writer Laura Poppick decodes strata to lead us on a journey through four global transformations that made our lives on Earth possible: the first accumulations of oxygen in the atmosphere; the deep freezes of “Snowball Earth”; the rise of mud on land and accompanying proliferation of plants; and the dinosaurs’ reign on a hothouse planet. #science #geology #time #secular #secularism