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• Plate Tectonics: How the Continents Move and Why It Explains Everything
  Mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, the shape of coastlines, even the distribution of oil and ancient fossils — one theory accounts for all of it: the broken, drifting shell of the Earth. Here is how geologists figured it out, and how slow a revolution of ten centimetres a year really is.
• How Scientists Date Rocks and Fossils: Radiometric Dating Explained
  "How old is it?" is one of the deepest questions in science, and the answer comes from physics, not guesswork. Certain atoms decay like tiny, perfectly reliable clocks — and reading those clocks is how we know the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
• How Football Tactics Evolved — From the Pyramid to the Gegenpress
  The formation numbers commentators bark about are fossils of real battles: every system existed because it beat the last one, and every counter existed to break it. A century and a half of football shape, told through the six revolutions that still define what you watch on Saturday.