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This is 'default weather' which is the seasonal weather associated with latitude. We are still warm for August. Europe seems to be in a 'heat lock' which means that the weak Atlantic plumes are being turned back. No ocean breezes, no rain. [...]
This post is the first of a weekly series that will summarize my upcoming book, Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City. The book has eleven chapters, and each post will go into one of them. But first I wanted to talk about the title. I was raised a [...]
The bill's requirement to offer land for oil and gas development may have a more limited impact than
Two charts I rely on, are under greta pressure to fold up their tents, and go. They appear later and later, and I send reminders, always two days later than before. I must be the only one in the world that looks at them. Even the physics guy [...]
We had the amazing wedding reception, jammed into a video game bar. And now we all have covid. Not your mother's covid, but the new strain. As I said a long time ago, these things evolve to match the conditions. The new covid is highly [...]
VIAJE EN EL TIEMPOVIÑETA 1- Recuerda, cualquier interacción podría cambiar la historia.- Ok, montaré a los dinosaurios con mucho cuidado.
VIÑETA 2- No, no. No puedes montar dinosaurios.- Entendido, a lo sumo, un dinosaurio.VIÑETA 3- Cero [...]
Torosaurus was a ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous. These fellows look very similar to their Triceratops cousins but are an entirely different species in their own right. In 1891, two years after the naming of Triceratops, a [...]
An archaeopteryx, a Jurassic aged theropod dinosaur that looked like a skinny chicken, lunges at a dragonfly at the end of a smooth river stone.Archaeopteryx were feathered dinosaurs and were once thought to be the oldest known fossil bird. We find [...]
Totem, Welcome & Mortuary Poles at Stanley ParkIf you visit Brockton Point in Stanley Park, there are many carved red cedar First Nation poles for you to admire. What you are viewing are replicas of First Nation welcome and totem poles that [...]
An exceptional example of the Lower Cambrian trilobite Buenellus higginsi from the Sirius Passet Biota, Buen Formation which borders the Arctic Sea along the northernmost coast of Greenland, an island country that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark [...]