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Sunday, 09 March 2014
In Honor of Cosmos Tonight, NASA Releases A New Set of Images on Flickr
Take a look! You can see the on FLICKR in higher resolutionKostenfreie Mapicons für Webmaps und gedruckte Landkarten
Zu einer gelungenen Karte gehören passende Mapicons und Maker, gar keine Frage. Zwar geben einem GoogleMaps, uMap und andere Dienste schon ein paar Varianten an die Hand, jedoch bedürfen umfangreichere Projekte eine erweiterte Auswahl. Je nach Thematik der Karte werden viele unterschiedliche Icons notwendig, um alle POIs (Points of Interest) konsistent und im gleichen Stil […]The post Kostenfreie Mapicons für Webmaps und gedruckte Landkarten appeared first onWelcome, Cracked readers–here’s some eyeball bait
Although it would be nice to think that our site views have octupled in the last day because of Mike’s fine and funny posts about what search terms bring people to SV-POW!, the real reason is that we [...]Wetlands and Flood Mitigation: The 10 Percent Solution
Following the Great Flood of 1993, an official report called for more research to find ways to prevent flood devastation, apparently unaware the problem had been mostly solved over a decade [...]Crystal, Glass, And Crystal Glass
courtesy of subarcticmike A crystal is a material whose atoms are arranged in an ordered pattern based on their atomic structure. They grow along fixed lines and form geometric shapes that are a function [...]South Africa Energy Report
“South Africa has a large energy-intensive coal mining industry. The country has limited proved reserves of oil and natural gas and uses its large coal deposits to meet most of its energy needs. [...] [...]US Electricity Generation by Fuel
The Energy Information Administration projects a reduced share of electricity generation from coal byUses of Gold
Of all the minerals mined from the Earth, none is more useful than gold. Its usefulness is derived from a diversity of special properties. Gold conducts electricity, does not tarnish, is very easy to work, can [...]US Natural Gas Consumption Growing Slowly
Here are total natural gas consumption values for the United States for 2008 to 2013 as published by the Energy Information Administration. Based upon all of the new natural gas projects that appear in the [...]Long-Awaited Responses, and Orpheus
In a little while, you dear reader will see what this is a part of. If you know what these are, then you’ll know what they have in common and thus why they’re being shown. But the answer [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A whale ear bone (Neogene)
This is another fossil that has sat in a display case for decades in Scovel before I really examined it. Unlike last week’s specimen, though, it has no identifying label on its reverse. This is always a [...]Waiting for Core
They say that being a soldier in war is 90% boredom followed by 10% action and on this cruise it is feeling like being a marine geologist is pretty [...]Fieldtrip guide for download: 4D Architecture of an Oblique Rift Margin – Paleoseismology of the Borrega and Laguna Salada Faults (MEX)
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Quaternary; MX
The Friends of the Pleistocene went on a fieldtrip few days ago to study the 4D Architecture of an Oblique Rift Margin in Baja California, NW Mexico. The tour focussed on the paleoseismology of the Borrega and [...]
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Off to Texas
I just wanted to let readers know that posting will be light this week, as I’m down in Texas running my field exchange course with Joshua Villalobos of El Paso Community College. Joshua’s supplying [...]Daily Geology Photos – March 9
A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 38 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos [...]Human Induced Earthquakes Triggering Even Larger Quakes?
“Scientists observed that a human-induced magnitude 5.0 earthquake near Prague, Oklahoma in November 2011 may have triggered the larger M5.7 earthquake less than a day later. This research suggests that [...]Spamming Scientific Publishers?
A researcher identified over 100 phony papers that made it through “editorial review” and appeared in the conference proceedings of major publishers. These phony papers had been generated by [...]The Largest Graphite Mine Outside of China?
The Ontario Graphite mine is being reopened and management believes that it will become the largest graphite mine outside of China. Graphite economics have improved since the previous owner closed the mine in [...]Energy Consumption in China
“China is the world’s most populous country with a fast-growing economy that has led it to be the largest energy consumer and producer in the world. Rapidly increasing energy demand, especially for [...]BSA: Mining in Society Merit Badge
The Boy Scouts of America have officially unveiled the first “Mining in Society” meritScience & The Simpsons, Part I: What’s a fossil fuel anyway?
When The Simpsons started in the late 1980s, very few people would’ve believed that the show could last as long as it has. Like the show or not, you can’t deny how it’s changed the way TV shows look [...]POTUS To Introduce COSMOS Two Sunday Night
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I hear that the President will introduce the first episode. I saw this quote from Carl Sagan on Google Plus last week, and it is more true now than when wrote it. There does seem to be a growing segment in [...]
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Wooster paleontologists begin a new field season
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