I am retelling the exact story Yousef Awyan told me in the Cairo Museum about the Schist Disk!! I'd never heard of this ...

A Political Ecology of Things,” argued, “there was never a time when human agency was anything other than an interfolding network of humanity and nonhumanity” (p. 31). The rocks’ refusal to be ...

At the very bottom of the canyon lies the Vishnu Schist, a hard rock originally deposited mainly as sediments some 2 billion years ago. The layer was subsequently covered. Around 1.7 billion years ...

On the rock tors of Central Otago, herpetologist Carey Knox scans the schist ledges for lizards. He's looking for a grand skink, or an Otago skink. Both are endangered lizard species that became ...