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Here at the way of the geophysicist. We love neologisms. How do you like this one? The Story of Sisyphus Sisyphus is a figure from Greek mythology. He was a pretty smart fellow, tricking death several times. However, [...]
La Scienza è democratica? Non lo è
nella misura grossolana con cui la democrazia è spesso ridotta a
“potere della maggioranza”, in quanto una affermazione non è
scientificamente corretta solo perché la maggioranza la ritiene
tale. Ma lo è [...]
From the northwest, Shasta and Shastina are two prominent peaks.
I'm going to get into rhetorical trouble for this. "Greatest" is a hugely subjective term, and there are going to be some disagreements. But Mt. Shasta is California's [...]
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in
Preprints are in the air! A few weeks ago, Stephen Curry had a piece about them in the Guardian (Peer review, preprints and the speed of science) and pterosaur palaeontologist Liz Martin published Preprints in science on her blog Musings of Clumsy [...]
Su Scienzeedintorni mi piacerebbe di più stare a parlare della storia della Terra, dell'evoluzione della vita e di qualche nuova scoperta. Ma purtroppo siamo in Italia e il mondo delle Scienze della Terra si deve misurare con un territorio [...]
Duplicty: a tool providing encrypted backupPaul Roshchin es un diseñador gráfico de San Petersburgo (Rusia) que trabaja para la compañía de telecomunicaciones Selectel. En los últimos años ha venido realizando una serie de ilustraciones con un [...]
This is going to be a short article since I don’t have a time to write a long one. The glacier flood from Skaftárkatlar cauldrons is mostly over. There continues to be a lot of water in rivers … Continue reading
It's a beautiful place, really. It was one of the most serene places I've been in my travels, away from busy roads, cities, tourist traps, and most of all, crowds. We were only 10 miles from Yosemite National Park on a Sunday afternoon, yet we [...]