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Architect Vanessa Keith's VR world "2100" imagines cities of the future employing emerging tech to cope with the climate
Just a few short months ago, we would have thought that COVID-19 was almost behind us and that it was only a matter of time before mine operators would no longer have to worry about the spread of the disease at their worksites. It looked like face [...]
Titanites occidentalis, Fernie AmmoniteThe Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis, from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. This beauty is the remains of a carnivorous cephalopod within the family Dorsoplanitidae that [...]
Yeah, these one in a million things always happen to me. I was trying to fill some holes at the cottage. We have a steel roof and after a lot of years, the 'foam fills' in the gaps tend to fall out. I've been foaming them with a [...]
Well you can't argue with the all-encompassing clange. In fact, you could never 'argue' with it, since it is philosophy, and they have the best debaters. Ugly people like me must be ground into the dirt. (OMG, it's a high school movie!)Right [...]
Frank Tweedy. Union College Special Collections (used with permission); date unknown.
Readers of this blog may remember Frank Tweedy of the US Geological Survey, who surveyed the Laramie Plains in 1892 (Mapping the Laramie Plains, 3rd dimension [...]
As you may know, there is no spot in California that’s out of sight of mountains. I took a long train trip over the weekend, when I wrote this post. Passed mountains the whole way until Nebraska. Now Nebraska is full of geological interest, but it [...]
El escritor e ilustrador norteamericano Dennis Nolan nació en San Francisco (California, Estados Unidos) y obtuvo los títulos universitarios en Pintura e Historia del Arte y el título de posgrado en Pintura por la San Jose State University. Ha [...]
Argonauticeras besairei, José Juárez RuizAn exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argonauticeras besairei from the awesome José Juárez Ruiz.Ammonites were predatory, squidlike creatures that [...]
Nat Quinn, OpenTopography 2021 summer intern