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Sunday, 02 November 2014
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:50:11]
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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
Geology in Motion [22:49:12]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Palaeoblog [19:42:00]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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