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
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [22:38:23]
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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
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [18:46:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
State of the Planet [15:00:20]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
markwitton.com blog [12:39:00]
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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, [...]
…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...
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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 Geologists [07:23:33]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 ... [...]
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 [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:48]
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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 [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [12:25:22]
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Die Deutsche Umweltstiftung baut ihr Adressbuch Umweltschutz aus… … und lässt
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]
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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 [...]
I think mining [06:21:49]
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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 [...]
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