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Friday, 25 July 2014

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My scientific media diet, the arborization of science, and the Red Queen 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [23:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info
I was reading a rant on another site about how pretentious it is for intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals to tell the world about their “media diets” and it got me thinking–well, angsting–about my scientific media diet. And then almost immediately I thought, “Hey, what am I afraid of? I should just go tell the truth about

Wildfire Smoke Reaches New York and Ontario 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:38:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (115 visits) info
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 CA,US
The wildfires from Washington and western/northern Canada continue to send a shroud of dense smoke to areas thousands of miles away. It’s been an almost autumn like afternoon over the Northeast U.S., and here in Maryland we have a deep blue sky with low humidity. No deep blue sky to our north however, where a dense layer of smoke covers southern Canada and New England. Below is the temperature anomalies

Interview: Ross Campbell 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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 Jurassic; MX
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We here at LITC were pleasantly surprised by Ross Campbell's art in the recent Turtles in Time #1, which depicted all of its prehistoric creatures with various feathery coverings (including, presciently [...]

And We’re Off! 

EXPEDITION LIVE! [18:41:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
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 US
We’re ready and running!  You can follow along with this year’s Utah expedition to the Mussentuchit Badlands (July 24th- August 24th) here at Expedition Live! with real time updates, photos, and [...]

Friday Rocks #21: Miniture Faults in Sandstone 

Up-section [16:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
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 US
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Photo by Tim SherryI've been posting a lot of Garden of the Gods pictures lately. We had a great field trip led by Christine Siddoway and Elisa Fitz Díaz. Here is a fault zone with centimeter offsets. Try [...]

When North Itself Wanders 

State of the Planet [15:00:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (107 visits) info
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 US,RU
    I love thinking about why my compass points north. The deep, molten-metal motions, rising And falling … gargantuan currents of iron Conceiving vast magnetic fields, revealed In my hand, by a [...]

Liebherr Creates Foundation Drill Rig Simulator 

GeoPrac.net [13:55:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
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Equipment manufacturer Liebherr has created a new simulator to allow operators to train on foundation drilling equipment virtually. The simulator is based on other simulators created by Liebherr, and includes [...]

"Think Batman x Iron Man": how pterosaurs are inspiring the next generation of aircraft 

markwitton.com blog [12:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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 GB,US
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Admit it, whatever you drive to work seems a little less adequate now.Pterosaurophile Mike Habib was recently featured in a Scientific American article about the utility of pterosaur research. Let's face it, [...]

At the Beginning of the Universe… 

Rosetta Stones [12:22:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (70 visits) info
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…there was geology. Oh, I know, some folks will tell you it was physics. Yes, there was that, too. And there might be a few who argue for chemistry, and we’ll grant them chemistry. Of... -- Read [...]

Sauroniops, The Graphic Novel 

Theropoda [09:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (57 visits) info
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Che il nostro Sauroniops sia il theropode con il più alto rapporto popolarità/completezza è ormai assodato. Tutti adorano Sauroniops, e lo vorrebbero vedere in tutti i film con dinosauri. A parte le [...]

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A faulted oyster ball from the Middle Jurassic of Utah 

Wooster Geologists [07:23:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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 Jurassic; US
I’m returning this week to one of my favorite fossil types: the ostreolith, popularly known as the “oyster ball”. These were lovingly described in a previous blog entry, so please click there [...]

1000 Geothermal Springs 

Julian\'s Blog [03:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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 NZ
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GNS Science and Waikato University are investigating one thousand of the geothermal hot springs in New Zealand's North Island.The goal of this ambitious 1000 Springs Research Project is to understand and [...]

Pizzasaurus 

Koprolitos [00:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (89 visits) info
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Cuidadito con esto... Es un colgante de bronce con un triceratops y pizzas. Si. Triceratops y pizzas. Por fin juntos. Ahí lo llevas. Lo que siempre soñaste colgando de tu cuello. "Pizzasaurus". Por un poco [...]

U.S. House Hearing Supports Legislation for Development of Domestic Minerals (H.R. 761) 

Mineral Law Blog [18:44:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
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 US
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing, titled "American Metals and Mineral Security: An examination of the [...]

The Bear Post 

Wooster Geologists [18:35:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (51 visits) info

 CA
One of the wonderful benefits of working in the wilderness is the potential for interaction with wildlife. Sometimes, we’re entertained by energetic jackrabbits. Sometimes, camels eat our lunch. Always, [...]

Naturstein verlegen bei Christian Osiecki 

Natursteine-Blog [15:26:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (80 visits) info
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Travertin-Fliesen – wohin das Auge blickt Die Vorfreude bestand bereits seit langer Zeit, die Spannung war groß und die Neugier kaum auszuhalten – doch es ist endlich geschafft: Der Bodenbelag ... [...]

U.S. House Hearing Supports Legislation for Development of Domestic Minerals (H.R. 761) 

Mineral Law Blog [14:44:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing, titled “American Metals and Mineral Security: An examination of the [...]

Geosciences Column: The Toba eruption probably did have a global effect after all 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
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 ID,
Almost everyone has heard of the Toba super-eruption, which took place on the island of Sumatra roughly 74,000 years ago, but the only evidence of tephra or tuff (volcanic fragments) from the eruption is in [...]

Stein-Atelier 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:25:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info
Der Kunstpädagoge Rolf Brüning bietet freies Gestalten mit Sand- und

Adressbuch Umweltschutz 

Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:55:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
Die Deutsche Umweltstiftung baut ihr Adressbuch Umweltschutz aus… … und lässt

Las tortugas del Cretácico Inferior de Vega de Pas (Cantabria) 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (109 visits) info
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 ES,US
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Como se anunció en este blog, en diciembre de 2013 se presentó en la 55 sesión científica de la Sociedad Geológica de España material de quelonios españoles del Cretácico Inferior, por primera vez [...]

Canadian Mine Wages by Commodity 

I think mining [06:21:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
category→science_technology
 Ordovician; CA
The hall of the parliament building in Ottawa It does make a difference to your wages if you work on a Canadian metal or diamond or fossil fuel mine.  Here are some numbers to highlight the differences.  I [...]

AZGS book sale to celebrate new Tucson trolley 

Arizona Geology [02:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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