Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [23:04:00]
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In terms of saurian-related output, the BBC is best known these days for Walking With Dinosaurs, the super-expensive CG-laden Brannagh-narrated behemoth, sire of numerous tie-in books (and a movie that we won't mention). Nine years earlier, however, Auntie Beeb saw fit to give its endorsement to this little lost nugget of dinosauriana - The BBC Book of Dinosaurs. Authored by Paul Appleby and illustrated by Gill Tomblin, this rather obscure book is sweetly nostalgic for those of us raised on [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [21:25:51]
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The NWS Doppler radar at Wakefield,Va detected the debris from the Antares explosion Tuesday evening. Not only that, but it was able to show that this was not rain but debris in the air. Being a dual [...]
Volcano Science And News Blog [16:36:00]
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(234 visits) category→recreation Quaternary; CL,CO,EC,KM,ER,,US
On the Columbia-Argentina border, a volcano that has not had an eruption for over quite some time. There is a report of activity in 1936, however this is now assumed to have been from nearby Reventador [...]
In 1866, the Peabody Museum of Natural History was founded with a gift from George Peabody. The same year his nephew, O.C. Marsh (Oct. 29, 1831 - Mar. 18, 1899), was also named its Professor of Paleontology, [...]
An Atom\'s-Eye View of the Planet [13:07:05]
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How is it that Earth developed an atmosphere that made the development of life possible? A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience links the origins of Earth’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere to the same [...]
On the second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy making landfall, we are running an extract from a new book by Adam Sobel “Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [12:05:00]
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(111 visits) category→science_technology BR
Hoje, 29 de Outubro de 2014, é criado o primeiro passo de um museu virtual, o PaleoMuseu, pelos nossos estudantes de Mestrado de Paleontologia FCT-UNL+UÉ, Pedro Fialho e Joana Damas. O financiamento do museu [...]
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) is seeking a dynamic, creative and energetic individual who is passionate about the Museum and its mission; exhibits strong project management and organizational [...]
Our colleague Tim Dawson from the California Geological Survey (CGS) pointed me to this website, where reports and data on the Napa Earthquake of 24 August, 2014, are collected. There is a new document [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:52:00]
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La heterocronía, o lo que es lo mismo, los cambios evolutivos que implican una variación temporal de la tasa de cambio que se produce en un carácter de un organismo respecto a su antecesor, es uno de los [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:04:55]
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Der Dipl.-Geogr. Alexander Stahr führt darunter sein: Blogmagazin für Boden
In Mount Mannen in western Norway, an apparently imminent large rockslide is attracting great media interest, including a live
One of the best current blogs on the topics of geology, young-Earth creationism, and Christianity is Age of Rocks, written by Jonathan Baker. Today he published his 100th post, and commemorated that [...]
Today I received the followings announcement by email. I cannot find the original on the website of the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM). Maybe they have not gotten down to posting it yet. The [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:08:39]
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Here is how the explosion looked as WBOC covered the Antares launch and explosion live. This was likely one of the largest rocket explosions ever at Wallops. The reason is that it happened with a fully fueled [...]
According to the World Water Management Institute, over one-third of the human population is affected by water scarcity. Advances in physical understanding, its applications, and the study of our environment [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [14:08:34]
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Der Bundesverband Boden e. V. (BVB) ruft zur Teilnahme auf:
Alongside my trip to London Zoo at the start of summer, I also took a day at the London Aquarium on the South Bank. The last time I had been was not too long after it opened, probably around 1996 and I [...]
I saw this large, chunky stylolite this summer somewhere along the trail from Takkakaw Falls to the Walcott Quarry of the Burgess Shale (in Yoho National Park, British Columbia). I like the way weathering has [...]
Another big fail for me. I have my nice cheap Chinese dash camera, and I wanted to whip up a home camera, using spare parts, sort of a Frankenstein for Halloween. I started with Linux, a webcam, and [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:00:48]
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The EGU is committed to promoting the participation of both young scientists and established researchers from low and middle income countries who wish to present their work at the EGU General Assembly. In [...]
Our colleague Tim Dawson from the California Geological Survey (CGS) pointed me to this website, where reports and data on the Napa Earthquake of 24 August, 2014, are collected. There is a new document [...]
Just a quick post today, to refute an incorrect idea about open access that has unfortunately been propagated from time to time. That is the idea that if (say) PLOS were acquired by a barrier-based publisher [...]
Northern Convergence as a name for this blog series was all about the role of a convergent plate boundary in the production of the scenery of the Pacific Northwest. The compressional forces that developed as [...]
VIDEO: Lava Flow in Hawaii Threatens Town Yahoo! News VIDEOS: Homes Evacuated Ahead of LavaBBC National Scenic Trails on USGS Topo MapsUnited States Geological Survey Kuwait Oil and Gas ReportEnergy [...]
Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [03:44:35]
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Can you see the Clean Water Act in there? And how much newer the phrase “green infrastructure” is? “Growing up” as a geomorphologist, I learned about stream restoration much more [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [02:30:00]
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This picture shows a Mytilus edulis (Gray, 1847) marine bivalve mollusc at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this exist in today's oceans. It is also known as [...]