Via Geoff Manaugh at BLDBLOG and the US Military, a spectacular digital/analog sandbox! Yes, it's developed for war games and military planning and operations, but wow, does it look like fun. The digital dimensions are powered by Microsoft's X-box
Written In Stone...seen through my lens [10:26:00]
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(390 visits) category→recreation Neogene,Quaternary,Paleogene,Cretaceous,Triassic,Carboniferous,Devonian,Cambrian; GB,IE,CI,CA,US,KM,GL,IN,MX,VE,,DE,NL,VN
In “101 American Geo-Sites You’ve Gotta See,” author Albert B. Dickas listed Maryland's Calvert Cliffs as number 32. With curiosity piqued and the Cliffs renowned for their diverse and well-preserved fossiliferous assemblages - having attracted tourists and scientists as early as 1770 - I decided to visit the site in July. Only a 90 minute drive southeast of Washington, the Calvert Cliffs is a spectacular and scenic, almost [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [02:30:00]
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(165 visits) category→recreation Cretaceous; IT,US
This image shows a Hippurites (Lamarck, 1801) marine bivalve mollusk fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in Late Cretaceous oceans.
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Views of the Mahantango [08:01:00]
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(150 visits) category→science_technology Silurian; GB,US
Dalejina is a Silurian aged brachiopod that, to me, resembles the genus Rhipidomella that is more commonly found in the Devonian. The specimen below is Dalejina hybrida from the Wenlock formation (Wenlock [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [00:30:00]
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(130 visits) category→recreation Cretaceous; ES,AO,US,IN
A geologia e a paleontologia de Angola têm novas datações e novos dados que ajudam a explicar o contexto da riqueza de fósseis do Namibe. Chris Strganac (SMU) que está terminar a sua tese de doutoramento [...]
Which theropod is this?
Hello! In this list, I am going to list 10 large Theropods a lot of you probably have never heard of. So, let’s get started.10-OxalaiaOxalaia was a Spinosaur and was probably [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:53:32]
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(117 visits) category→arts_entertainment
It’s nearly two years since Alexander Brown wrote Open access: why academic publishers still add value for the Guardian, in which he listed ways that he feels publishers make a contribution. I wrote a [...]
I was thinking that this seems reasonable enough: Met Office says new supercomputer will provide more reliable weather warningbut then Mat Collins tweeted that it will "will also be used for making more [...]
El célebre chef británico Jamie Oliver encargó al artista Jay Jay Burridge la decoración de uno de sus últimos restaurantes. Situado en Shaftesbury Avenue, cerca de Piccadilly Circus, en Londres [...]
Caribbean Paleobiology [15:48:00]
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(100 visits) category→science_technology Neogene; GB,MX,FR,ES,PH,US,PA,BR,AU,IN
La entrada de hoy es una especial. Primero tenemos el honor de tener aquí a mi colega Catalina Pimiento que nos hablará de su más reciente publicación sobre tiburones fósiles. Segundo, es la primera vez [...]
Friends of the Pleistocene [02:22:48]
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(97 visits) category→arts_entertainment JP
Higashi for the Anthropocene and seasonal higashi, in collaboration with Kagizen Yoshifusa (Kyoto) and Wagashi Asobi (Tokyo), smudge studio 2014 The project had humble beginnings. Our primary intention was to [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:41:00]
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(93 visits) category→arts_entertainment
Los paleofrikis estamos de enhorabuena: resulta que hace unos días salió publicado un nuevo género que se une a la larga lista ya comentada en episodios anteriores de taxones descritos por paleontólogos [...]
Utah Geological Survey - blog [23:13:58]
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(92 visits) category→recreation US
Incised petroglyphs, Canaan Gap, Washington County, Utah Photographer: Tyler Knudsen; ©
“Mined in Canada” DiamondsGemological Institute of America Diamond Mines in CanadaGeology.com Lesotho: Diamonds Average $2K/ct vs $106 World AverageGemological Institute of America 500 Years Ago: A Monster [...]
Seoul, Korea was the last city and the last leg of my GSA Distinguished International Lecture Tour. We started in Songdo International City, a new development along the shoreline at Incheon. There I spoke to [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [20:17:00]
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(80 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous; ES,NO,IT,PT,,MX
En el suroeste de Europa existe un abundante registro fósil de vertebrados que incluye dinosaurios, quelonios, pterosaurios y también cocodrilos, además de pequeños mamíferos, reptiles y anfibios. Todo [...]
As far as anatomical ventilation systems go, our noses are pretty impressive. Scrolled sheets of bone called turbinates
From hot cocoa to cold-bugs, many things seem to join us as we move indoors in the winter season. Radon gas is among this indoor migration, and it increases as temperatures drop outdoors. Check out this good [...]
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Next to fish and recreation on the water, birds get a lot of attention around lakes. From songbirds like the cuckoo to birds of prey like hawks, whole societies are[...]
The post Lake Shoreline Habitats [...]
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Lounge of the Lab Lemming [14:41:00]
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(156 visits) category→recreation Triassic
The strontium which weathers from the land
Is held by teeth and shells beneath the waves
Their creatures live, then die, interred in sand
with isotopes in stratigraphic graves.
The greatest dying Earth has [...]
The secret of the big terrifying jaws is #1 below!
HALLOWEEN! Every year, I like to use the season's festive theme to try and highlight some cool invertebrate diversity! Last year I did an overview of [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [00:10:00]
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(126 visits) category→recreation Jurassic; PT
Portugal tem um novo dinossauro, Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis, descoberto em Porto das Barcas, Lourinhã:Porto das Barcas, LourinhãAbstract:A new dryosaurid ornithopod, Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis, [...]
It soars over the tossing waves on enormous, outspread wings. With nary a flap, the bird is soaring dynamically high above the ocean, its eyes scanning the sky around it and sea below. It may seem unremarkable [...]
Gli eroi del 2014, alla stessa scala
Il 2014 della Theropodologia sarà ricordato probabilmente per la pubblicazione di nuovi resti su due dei più enigmatici e iconici mega-theropodi del XX secolo: [...]
Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [02:26:53]
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(108 visits) category→science_technology US
As California’s drought continues and intensifies, groundwater is ever more heavily exploited. Groundwater withdrawals are happening much faster than natural recharge will ever occur, and the [...]
In Hawaii, a lava flow from Kilauea was nearing residential areas in the northwest portion of Pāhoa on October 27th. The flow front was heading towards a low spot on the Pāhoa Village Road, between Apaʻa [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [02:27:10]
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(99 visits) category→health US,
Some politicians (Mainly the governors of NY and NJ) are taking it on the chin this Monday night for locking up a nurse returning from West Africa who was helping patients with Ebola. The treatment of Kaci [...]
OpenStreetmap is the fastest growing community mapping project of all times. Beside the “normal” map result, what you can use for your daily navigation through cities and countries like Google [...]
When I rebooted this blog back in July I promised that now I was no longer SPNHC president, I would be able to tell it like it is. I’ve spent quite a few years thinking about the profession of collections [...]
Today, I thought I would share some images of lovely “textbook” glacial striations from rocks I saw in the Canadian Rockies this
Question: What happens to toxins in soil? More specifically, when I compost my banana peel, I know there is a small amount of Thiabendazole, Imazalil, Azoxystrobin, Myclobutanil, and probably a
Looking for a fun way to explore the new Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife?! Check out our Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife Scavenger Hunt! Whether you’re bringing students on a field trip or you’re just [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:36:20]
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(79 visits) category→science_technology
During the weekend activity in Bárðarbunga volcano was in the same manner as it has been for the past two months. Largest earthquakes during the weekend had the magnitude of 5,2 and 5,3. Pollution was a big [...]
Like their secular school counterparts, many Christian schools offer a full year of Earth Science at the middle school level. These Christian schools, as well as home school parents who wish to offer a year of [...]
Manchmal stellt man im Brustton der Überzeugung Behauptungen auf, die bei näherer Betrachtung so dann doch nicht haltbar sind. Denn oft stellen neue Erkenntnisse die alten in Frage. So zu Beispiel meine [...]
Netzwerk für geowissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsarbeit [09:45:50]
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Ein Leitfaden für die Praxis: Herausgeber: Bundesverband Boden e. V.
, Fritsch (1893) erwähnt von diesem Fundort Hemiaster regulusanus d'Orbigny, 1854 - Coniac, unteres Coniac (Březno Formation (březenské souvrství)) - Ort: Březno (Priesen), zu Postoloprty bei