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Sunday, 02 November 2014

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Amazing Photos From Astro Reid Highlight A Fragile Earth and an Even More Fragile Climate 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:50:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (728 visits) info
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The twitter pics posted by Reid Wiseman (@atro_reid) from high above Earth are just amazing, and I saw one shot in particular from earlier in the week that dove-tails nicely with the final release (Sunday) of the 5th IPCC report (WG3 here). The IPCC report was nothing less than blunt, saying we must get off of fossil fuels by the end of this century, and must especially get away from

Bardarbunga and SO2 emissions: comparison with Laki 1783 

Geology in Motion [22:49:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
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 SE,IS,US,AT,KM,EG,IN,NO,
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Bardarbunga spewing gas from Nature/NewsArctic-Images/Corbis"Gas-spewing Icelandic volcano stuns scientists". So reads the headline in Nature/News on October 28. Bardarbunga, about 250 km from Reyjkjavik, has been erupting for over two months (see previous posts on this blog here and here). The reason that scientists were "surprised" is that they had been expecting Bardarbunga to mimic the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption that spewed ash high into the flight paths of airplanes, and instead, they [...]

Esteu convidats a la xerrada i sortida sobre el patrimoni geològic de Terrassa 

Bloc de camp [20:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
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L'Andrés Aragoneses és un físic de la UPC i divulgador que impulsa iniciatives com Planeta da Vinci o diferents activitats dins la Setmana de la Ciència a Terrassa. És un bon amic que ha tingut a bé [...]

Died This Day: Oliver Perry Hay 

Palaeoblog [19:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (125 visits) info
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 Quaternary; US,
Hay (May 22, 1846 – Nov. 2, 1930) was an American paleontologist whose catalogs of fossil vertebrates greatly organized existing knowledge and became standard references. Hay's primary scientific interest [...]

★ The book behind Gustav Tornier 

Hydrarchos [17:20:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (43 visits) info
A bit of a panic yesterday. We’re in the middle of moving house at the moment, from a rather large apartment without a garden to a large garden with a smaller house. Unfortunately, that calls for a [...]

Most Viewed News Stories – October 

Geology.com News [13:00:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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 JP,IS,NZ
The Largest Glacier Calving Event Ever FilmedChasing Ice on YouTube A Veteran “Volcano Climber” Discusses OntakeNational Geographic Sands of the Kalahari Awaken After 10,000 YearsNational Science [...]

The Way it Was Today: Fall (and a bit of Winter) in Yosemite Valley 

Geotripper [08:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (634 visits) info
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It always comes back to Yosemite. I travel many places, explore many mountains, see the most incredible geology, but the circle of my life always involves a valley of granite in the Sierra Nevada. I was [...]

Died This Day: Kenneth Oakley 

Palaeoblog [19:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
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Oakley (April 7, 1911 - Nov. 2, 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, geologist, and paleontologist best known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content. While working for the [...]

Raiders of Dinosaur Art: Rampant Plagiarism by Toy Companies 

DinoGoss [19:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (21 visits) info
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Look Familiar?Greetings, goss hounds!Last time, I mentioned that Darren Naish, Mark Witton, and John Conway recently published an article on the (shameful) state of  paleoart as used in professional and [...]

Unforced variations: Nov 2014 

Real Climate [14:09:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
This month’s open thread. In honour of today’s New York Marathon, we are expecting the fastest of you to read and digest the final IPCC Synthesis report in sub-3 hours. For those who didn’t [...]

La broma halloweenesca de Goran Dragić 

Koprolitos [11:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info
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Aprovechando Halloween el pasado viernes, el cachondo de Goran Dragić, jugador esloveno de los Phoenix Suns en la NBA, les gastó una broma a sus compañeros de equipo con la ayuda de un simpático dinosaurio [...]

MET Carmen and the Glorification of Sin 

I think mining [04:13:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
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 CA
Today was Coquitlam and the MET HD live broadcast of Carmen, that perpetually popular opera about sin and no redemption. No doubt you have followed the protests about the MET production of The Death of [...]
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