Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:58:39]
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(101 visits) category→science_technology
You cannot learn to forecast something if you do not try, and testing predictions is what science is all about, so with that in mind, here is the hurricane forecast from NOAA for 2015. There is not a lot of skill in these forecasts, but this year we have some help. A growing El Nino (that looks like it may be a strong one) is the major factor in the
Python is a well established script language in the GIS/geodata world. And as a Facebook friend asked how to read csvs with Python I thought about “How to convert a csv to a shp with Python?”. Keeping in mind that most GPS solutions and many internet tools offers a csv export and it’s common in any stats/spreadsheet program this can be a handy solution for your everyday life. See my solution here… Reading A CSV With Python As a first task, we need to read a csv. This is [...]
Just one full day of drilling time left now before we have to start pulling pipe and packing up to go back to Mumbai. It's now a race to see we [...]
markwitton.com blog [23:21:00]
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(168 visits) category→recreation Cretaceous,Carboniferous; GB,AU
Regular readers will know that I'm prone to dabbling in palaeoart depicting the environments and animals of the Wealden Supergroup, the 18 million year stretch of Early Cretaceous time represented by mud-and [...]
If greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, glaciers in the
Everest region of the Himalayas could experience dramatic change in the
decades to come. A team of researchers in Nepal, France and the
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Students throughout Columbia University were notified of a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend a student simulation in anticipation of the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Paris. Two words jumped [...]
Wie sieht ein Andockmanöver an die Internationale Raumstation eigentlich aus? Dieses Video zeigt es aus der Sicht des Kosmonauten einer Soyuz-Raumkapsel. Die Soyuz TMA-16M dockte am 27. März 2015 mit den [...]
Heißes Fett oder Öl in einem Topf oder einer Pfanne auf dem Herd, und dann die Zeit vergessen. Hat das Fett erstmal Feuer gefangen, ist die Panik meist groß und die Vernunft entsprechend klein. Wer jetzt [...]
Background & Objective Recreational waters impacted by fecal contamination have been linked to gastrointestinal illness in swimmer populations. To date, few epidemiologic studies examine the risk for [...]
In case you are someone hoping to find natural treatments on your stress and anxiety issues, there may be nice thing about it. These types of therapies are easily available from lots of various resources. [...]
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:58:00]
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Con motivo de la III Semana de la Geología de la Universidad de Salamanca, Adán Pérez-García impartirá esta tarde, a las 17:00, una conferencia titulada “Relevancia Científica de la Sala de las [...]
On Sunday exceptional rainfall triggered a series of landslides in Wind River Canyon in Wyoming, blocking both US20 and the BNSF railway
About 15% of minerals will exhibit a visible fluorescence under shortwave or longwave ultraviolet illumination. The Geology.com Store has ultraviolet lamps, fluorescent mineral sets and UV-blocking safety [...]
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [00:09:44]
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I am going to turn off the geophone station in Böðvarshólar on 28-May-2015. The only renaming geophone stations after this is going to be in Heklubyggð. I don’t know for how long I am going to keep [...]
El programa Boom, que presenta Juanra Bonet y emite Antena 3 de lunes a viernes a las 20:00 horas, consiste en que dos equipos (azul y rojo), de cuatro jugadores cada uno, deben desactivar un total de diez [...]
Investigación GeoPaleoBiológica en Somosaguas [22:12:00]
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Hemos tenido que esperar al antepenúltimo día de la campaña, pero por fin ha aparecido un fósil de esos que llaman la atención a la gente corriente; grande, en buen estado y de una especie considerada [...]
New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity. 2015. Nature.
Australopithecus deyiremeda is a new 3.3 to 3.5 million-year-old human ancestor. Its upper and lower jaw fossils [...]
Nearly eight hundred meters above ocean level, surrounded through boundless stretches associated with bright, green rice paddies so far as the eye can easily see; against a background of gently sloping [...]
Liberty, Equality, Geology [20:07:48]
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Hard water occurs if you find a relatively higher concentration of ions for example magnesium, calcium, and iron which have been dissolved in water as it passes with the atmosphere and the floor toward [...]
By: Rebekah E. Wood and Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr. This CD contains an easily viewable 1:700,000-scale map in PDF format of Utah’s oil, gas, and CO₂ fields (past and present); oil gas and CO₂ pipelines [...]
New model results show that the Antarctic ozone hole would have grown in size by 40% by 2013 if ozone depleting chemicals had not been banned in the 1980s. CGS researchers at the University of Leeds’ [...]
Although Sandra Shaw (May 27, 1913 – Feb. 16, 2000) had a short film career comprising a few, mostly uncredited film roles in 1933, her most famous appearance is that of the person plucked from her sleep [...]
Liberty, Equality, Geology [12:04:22]
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(109 visits) category→culture_politics
Girls have an in-depth need to wear an exceptional along with special look on their wedding party night. From your bridal gown towards the bride’s bouquet and make-up, every section of the bridal look [...]
Durante su juventud en Japón, Shio Kusaka no se mostró excesivamente interesada en el arte. Sin embargo, años más tarde y guiada por las ceremonias de té tradicionales que realizaba su abuela, se animó a [...]
A Rare Earth Shortage Transforms Into an Oversupply ?Forbes What Are Rare Earth Elements ?Geology.com World’s Oldest Stone ToolsThe New York Times US Coal Miner, Murray Energy, Will Lay of 21% of [...]
We are happy to report our exhibit in Japan is being visited by multitudes of Japan Geoscience Union meeting attendees. All the excitement has us barely feeling the time change anymore. Despite [...]