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Wednesday, 13 September 2023

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Tree-following: Good News (mostly)

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [23:30:00]

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After skipping a month, we headed off to visit the Rocky Mountain Junipers I'm following this year. There were big changes. The grass is mostly straw-colored now, as it would have been several months ago if we hadn't had so much rain. Seed heads were dense, showing how productive the season has been. Needle-and-Thread, Hesperostipa comata. Needles and threads (seeds and seed tails) are mostly gone now. Blue grama, Bouteloua gracilis, has my favorite dried inflorescence. It curls so [...]

Sol y fósiles

Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [21:57:00]

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¡Segundo día de excavación! En el yacimiento no faltan los gorros y la crema solar, hemos estado todo el día al sol salvo los afortunados de la Cata-4 por la mañana que han disfrutado de la sombra. Como os contábamos ayer, Claudia Paparelli ha vuelto ha visitarnos por la mañana para seguir haciendo fotografías y entrevistas para el artículo de National Geographic. Pero no ha sido la única

Giant titanosaurs were just ridiculous

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [21:16:03]

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Here’s Mike with the cast dorsal vertebra of Argentinosaurus that’s on display at the LACM. I tried to get myself equidistant from both Mike and the vert when I took the photo, but even I couldn’t quite [...]

Meet Farida Razaqi of the Climate and Society Class of 2024

State of the Planet [14:30:32]

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Born and raised in Afghanistan, she’s working at the intersection of climate change, gender, and

Perdidos en el futuro

Koprolitos [10:00:00]

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Perdus dans le futur (Editions Dupuis, 2021) narra la epopeya de unos críos que caen en un túnel espacio-temporal durante una excursión escolar. En el segundo volumen, “Piégés” (2022), viajan al [...]

VANCOUVER'S HISTORIC STANLEY PARK

ARCHEA [04:05:00]

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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 [...]

Physics of the South Pacific - Part 1

Ontario-geofish [01:55:00]

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This place is just rolling in physics. The most important physics is that of the pearl. It is formed by secretions that build up the whole oyster shell. There are many varieties of oyster, but only a few [...]

Tahiti pictures

Ontario-geofish [20:31:00]

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Bora Bora, a residual of the volcano edge. The water is the caldera.AThis is our weather. We are at 20 S directly below Hawaii. All the tropic action is above the equator. No storms, just rain, sun, [...]

Analizando los patrones ontogenéticos del paladar de los cocodrilos en el 22nd European Congress of Herpetology

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:00:00]

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Durante el 22nd European Congress of Herpetology, celebrado en Wolverhampton (UK) del 4-8 septiembre, Ane de Celis presentó también la comunicación oral “A geometric morphometric approach to palatal [...]

A Short Mining History and Geology of the California Gold Rush

Geotripper [08:01:00]

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Note: I've maintained a website at MJC for quite a few years for the use of my students, and the website is being erased this year for online security reasons. I wanted to keep some of the information, so I am [...]

Physics of the South Pacific - Part 2

Ontario-geofish [02:09:00]

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The most important physics of the equator is the heat energy. I’ve written on this many times, but it is fascinating being here. Right now, all the action is north of the equator, and we in the Tahiti [...]