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Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Main Streets, Malls, and Sustainable Consumption
As new technologies continue to change consumption patterns, land use and social norms, we have an opportunity to ensure these changes result in an exciting sustainable lifestyle in a new type of sustainable
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Chair Top 10 List
I have been Chair of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas for about a year-and-a-half now. For what it is worth, here is my top 10 list of advice for new Chairs:Make a list of deadlines, mine has about 150 itemsSupport, expand and involve your external advisory board - they can move the worldEvery time you complete a complicated task, write a note titled "for next time" about how you could do it betterStart a blog to capture all the stuff you need to share,here is [...]Aktionstag »Mineralogie«, 19. November, 11.00 – 17.00 Uhr
Das Hessische Landesmuseum Darmstadt stellt die »Mineralogie« am 19. November 2017 von 11 bis 17 Uhr in den Mittelpunkt. In Vorträgen und Führungen werden unterschiedliche Facetten dieses komplexen [...]Kann man interstellare Raumsonden auch wieder abbremsen?
Mit einer miniaturisierten Raumsonde, die man auf bis zu ein Viertel der Lichtgeschwindigkeit beschleunigen könnte, wäre unser nächster Stern, Alpha Centauri, in 20 bis 50 Jahren erreichbar. Ohne [...]Toronto Red Car Found
Scientists locate whistling space electrons’ origins
New research using data from NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission and FIREBIRD II CubeSat has shown that a common plasma wave in space is likely responsible for the impulsive loss of high-energy electrons into [...]Pirates of Pangaea
Disaster Geology: 2017's Most Deadly Earthquake
The geologic story behind the Iran–Iraq earthquake -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comFolgen des Klimawandels: Oder warum wird das Wasser unter Borkum überwacht?
Auf der Nordseeinsel Borkum überwachen Forscherinnen und Forscher des Leibniz-Instituts für Angewandte Geophysik, Hannover (LIAG), die Veränderungen der Salz-Süßwassergrenze im Untergrund. Seit [...]Soils and your Thanksgiving meal
Watt's up with Pat Frank?
And now for your scheduled return to the climate blogosphere wars. I haven't missed it at all. Pat Frank has posted a rather tedious pile of blether on WTFUWT which mentions me, albeit tangentially. Well, [...]The Evolution Of Ankylosaurus
In their new paper, Arbour and Mallon describe unusual features of Ankylosaurus. One thing setting Ankylosaurus apart from even its closest relatives is the location of its nostrils. Most armored taxa, such as [...]Afromimus e la Sindrome di Elaphrosaurus
Sereno (2017) descrive i resti frammentari di un theropode di dimensioni medio-piccole (lunghezza totale stimata attorno ai 3 metri) dal Cretacico Inferiore del Niger, ed istituisce Afromimus tenerensis. [...]Top concepts:
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