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Thursday, 14 May 2015
Views of the Mahantango [18:54:00]
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(220 visits) category→science_technology Devonian; DE,US
It's been a while since I've updated the blog but I'm slowly getting a queue built up in the background. My day job as an Project Engineer for a Telecommunications company is taking up some extra time these days. Plus now that the warm weather is back I've been doing some collecting. I've plenty of material to post in the next few months: some new Moroccan Trilobites (and Brachs and Goniatites) that I've recently added to my collection and a large number of fossils from the Lockhovian aged [...]
Reporting on a Revolution [17:39:00]
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(192 visits) category→arts_entertainment
I've started following @Scitable, an education resource from journal Nature. A few days back they tweeted a link to an article on ocean acidification.
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When CO2 dissolves in seawater to produce aqueous CO2 (CO2(aq)) it also forms carbonic acid (H2CO3) (Eq. 1; Figure 1). Carbonic acid rapidly dissociates (splits apart) to produce bicarbonate ions (HCO3-, Eq. 2). In
August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832“Cuvier's scientific achievements are difficult to overestimate. It was widely recounted that he could reconstruct a skeleton based on a single bone. His work is considered [...]
Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for every living organism, well known for its role in fueling everything from the human body to farm fields. But up to now, surprisingly little has been known about how the [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [01:15:00]
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(151 visits) category→sports Quaternary; MA
No novo volume das Comunicações Geológicas é descrito parte do resultado do trabalho marroquino-português no Médio Atlas, e que foi tema da tese de mestrado de João Marinheiro integrado no Mestrado [...]
Shell Gets Approval to Drill in the Chukchi Sea This SummerThe New York Times Arctic Ocean: Seafloor Features MapGeology.com ConocoPhillips CEO Thinks Chukchi Drilling Rules Are UnclearFuelFix Unusual [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:46:00]
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(131 visits) category→science_technology
Zby, Mei, Ara, Kol... muchos son los dinosaurios que desafiando los límites del Código Internacional de Nomenclatura Zoológica se han disputado el título por el nombre más breve, pero ¡abróchense los [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [12:12:47]
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(120 visits) category→science_technology
The first hypothesis is that, contra Elk (1972), all Brontosauruses were rather fat at one end, then much fatter in the middle, then thin at the other end. The second theory is that Diplodocus was dumb. [...]
A molecular mechanism for the origin of a key evolutionary innovation, the bird beak and palate, revealed by an integrative approach to major transitions in vertebrate history. 2015. Bhullar, B-A. S., et al. [...]
Billy World è un film del 1985 diretto
da Billy Tribolium. Il film narra di una colossale truffa volta ad
imbrogliare persone ignoranti in paleontologia, che credono di pagare
il biglietto per visitate un [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:33:46]
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(154 visits) category→sports US,
This is really a great video from NASA, but what I like the most about it is how they explain a subtle fact of statistics that almost everyone, especially gamblers, basketball, and baseball players get wrong. [...]
Tierra de Dinosaurios [14:07:00]
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(143 visits) category→culture_politics ES,US,MA
El Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos) se adhiere un año más a la celebración del Día Internacional de los Museos, con un programa dirigido a todos los públicos para lo cual ha [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [02:41:40]
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(132 visits) category→recreation US,JP,NP
Also See more from fellow AGU blogger Dr. Dave Petley. From NASA: Scientists with the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis project (ARIA), a collaboration between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, [...]
Scientists at San Diego State University have explained an eerie floating image of the Chicago skyline that appeared upside down over Lake Michigan in mid-April 2015, according to the Detroit[...]
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A partir de un encargo de LEGO China, el animador y director creativo holandés Rogier Wieland ha realizado esta pieza en stop-motion en la que cobra especial protagonismo el dinosaurio del zoo.
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