Do You Have a Rock? | Mika McKinnon | TEDxBinghamtonUniversity скачать в хорошем качестве

Do You Have a Rock? | Mika McKinnon | TEDxBinghamtonUniversity

Rock check! Do you have a rock? Geophysicist and natural disaster researcher Mika McKinnon wants YOU to reconsider your answer to this question if it was no. She sees rocks not as dull, stationary objects but fantastic storytellers of the past. By observing the colors, patterns, and textures of rocks Mika has looked into the geological stories of Earth, including one of the most drastic atmospheric turning points ever over 1 billion years ago. Canadian Mika McKinnon is a geophysicist, disaster researcher and sci-fi scientist. As your friendly neighborhood geoscientist, she offers tasting notes on rocks, tweaks party planning to enhance disaster preparedness and obsesses over impending doom. Along with her research into landslides on asteroids, McKinnon scrawls equations and establishes plausibility for shows like Stargate and Star Trek. Her writing appears in Wired, io9, VICE, Vox and more. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx