A lot more drones the size of full-grown poodles will soon be zooming over rooftops, thanks to new federal regulations. The Federal Aviation Administration’s new rule, officially deemed “Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems,” sets safety and security guidelines for certifying and operating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) weighing less than 55 pounds. Under… Read More Ushering in a New Era
Speaking of Geoscience [02:03:47]
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(216 visits) category→science_technology CH,US
By Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University This the fourth of four blogs written in advance of a meeting at the ETH conference facility in Ascona, [...]
Weather along the eastern coasts of South Africa, Asia, Australasia and South America will get significantly warmer and stormier on average over the next 100 years, a new study finds. The culprit? Climate [...]
In every movie I can think of where dinosaurs and humans meet each other, the movies have you believe that any theropod from a Compsognathus to a Tyrannosaurus see humans as a new, tasty prey. Now I understand [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:53:05]
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I live here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and we had a severe flood event last night. Nearly 6 inches of rain fell at my house. This comes after my post yesterday about the difficulty in forecasting [...]
It looks to me like you can see Quail Rock from White Pass!
We've gone over White Pass—btw, here's a gigapan looking west from White Pass—and we've gone across the flats in the east fork of upper [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:14:00]
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Entre los días 17 y 20 de mayo tuvieron lugar en el Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" de Buenos Aires las XXX Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados. Una de [...]
Mountain Beltway [09:05:33]
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(160 visits) category→science_technology Carboniferous; GB
Thanks to the website ScottishGeology.com, run by Angus Miller, I learned of Barns Ness, a Mississippian-aged limestone fossil site on the shore not far from where we are staying at Dunbar. We ventured out [...]
Dinosaur Home - Blogs [05:30:57]
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Old sculptures of Tyrannosaurus and Brontosaurus at Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota. All images are my own.
From June 19th to June 24th, I participated in the Fossils Camp at the South Dakota [...]
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The Landslide Blog [09:05:31]
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The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering have produced a very nice reconnaissance report on the impacts of the Kumamto Earthquake in Japan with a very nice interpretation of some of the landslides [...]
Können Dialog und Begegnung inmitten eines Klimas von Ängsten, Terror und Neo-Nationalismus gedeihen? Können sich islamische Religionsgemeinschaften in Deutschland überhaupt selbst artikulieren, oder fehlt [...]
“Everyone treats the rise of Nazism—that Adolf Hitler is in power,” says Rendell. “But how did he get into power? He ran for office. Twice. They changed anti-Semitism to fit political
The cloud has made it easier to process large amount of data, and satellite imagery processing benefits from cloud processing too. One of the cloud services that offers access to satellite images, and [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [04:53:02]
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A lot of folks have a vague idea of how valuable satellite data is for forecasting severe weather. With the launch of GOES R this fall, the data will be nearly real-time, like radar is now, and it will [...]
Written by Ashley Zalta, HMNS Special Events Manager Nothing is more refreshing than the cool delight of eating ceviche on a hot summer’s eve. Here at HMNS, one of our exclusive [...]
No sabemos si será muy funcional, pero con este bolso con forma de tiranosaurio se puede vacilar de lo lindo. Hecho a mano por la tailandesa Nattana Chansawas, se puede adquirir por algo menos de veinte euros [...]
Collection of random flint fossils free to a good home - rather heavy!If interested please contact Nick on
Der Sommer ist da, und mit ihm die Urlaubs- und Ausflugszeit. Und oft suchen wir Menschen dann Erholung in der Natur. Leider vergessen wir zivilisationsgewöhnten Menschen dabei immer gerne, dass der [...]
Obviously, in these troubled times of political, social and cultural meltdown we all need a big hug (as well as lots of cake and chocolate).
So, how about RoseMarie, the ultimate warm cuddly purr [...]
Permafrost below shallow Arctic lakes is thawing quicker than expected as a result of changing winter climate in Alaska. Warmer winters combined with an increase in snowfall during the last[...]
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Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(135 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; US,DE,NZ
By far the most prolific constituent of the fossils I found in the Martin formation in Arizona is Thamnopora sp. This genera is also called Coenites in older literature. It is most common as finger [...]
Mauna Loa from the Mauna Kea Road near the Onizuka Center
The answer is easy: clouds. This whole post is a temper tantrum, a tantrum that resulted from the fact that we were on the Big Island of Hawai'i, the [...]
Der Sommer ist da, und mit ihm die Urlaubs- und Ausflugszeit. Und oft suchen wir Menschen dann Erholung in der Natur. Leider vergessen wir zivilisationsgewöhnten Menschen dabei immer gerne, dass der [...]
Attraktives Umtauschangebot für alte Anleihe zu 104% Heidelberg. Die Deutsche Rohstoff AG wird vom 30.6. bis 18.7.2016 eine neue Unternehmensanleihe