Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:09:26]
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I’ve chatted before with Tom Karl about how difficult it is to measure the planet’s temperature. Karl,who is the head of the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (Formerly known as the Nat. Climate Data Center) is probably one of the top five experts on this anywhere, and today he published a major paper in Science that is already getting world-wide attention from the main stream press. There is good
Get Nepal working again with shipping container houses certified by The Fish. They should be welded onto deep screw piles, and it's good to have a basement in the mountains for boulders. They can have this sign:
There is a one in a million chance that we will experience a great earthquake while you are here. This is the place to survive it. It has been certified by The Wacky Harold.
Palaeoblog [21:18:00]
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An unusual theropod frontal from the Upper Cretaceous of north Patagonia. 2015. Alcheringa. Carabajal & Coria
Abstract: We report an isolated left frontal (MCF-PVPH 320) corresponding to a medium-sized [...]
Image by Julius Csotonyi
Welcome Regaliceratops to the pantheon of horned-dinosaurs.
Read about it in the Globe and
In a new paper in Science Express, describe the impacts of two significant updates to the NOAA NCEI (née NCDC) global temperature series. The two updates are: 1) the adoption of for the ocean temperatures [...]
On the heels of a preliminary injunction motion filed in the action by two industry groups challenging the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on public [...]
Everyone knows Triceratops. The herbivore’s a Cretaceous celebrity. Over the past ten years, however, old “three horned face”
Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington have discovered that the icy bottoms of supraglacial lakes in Greenland can crack open suddenly to drain them, [...]
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To many of us, thrust nappes and thrusting are things related to metamorphic rocks or shale-limestone sequences in places such as the Alps, the Caledonides or the Canadian Rockies, while rifts are more [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:03:09]
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John Cook at the University of Queensland (along with others) has produced a very good course about climate change and its denial. He also covers the consensus among scientists, and why the claims by the [...]
Greetings to everyone from Cape Town where I've been for the last two weeks! One more left to go!
Sorry if I've been a bit quiet and off Twitter. What have I been up to? What have I been learning?
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After countless hours of workshopping, brainstorming, writing, and rewriting, I thought that a consensus between parties would not be so far off. However, with 220 opinions boiled down into 42 delegations, it [...]
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Almost everything in our garden is doing flowering at the moment. It is the British way, to bloom in May and June and hibernate the rest of the year.
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Reporting on a Revolution [19:23:00]
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I've been writing periodic updates on Bhuvan and have been critical about some of its features before. Today I sing its praise.
Bhuvan is the Indian Space Research Organization's web mapping portal. It was [...]
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Green Tea and Velociraptors [17:07:11]
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See this post about Open Con 2014 for more information Applications to attend OpenCon 2015 on November 14-16 in Brussels, Belgium are now open! The application is available on the OpenCon website at [...]
Tierra de Dinosaurios [15:23:00]
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<![endif]-->El Museo de Dinosaurios de Salas de los Infantes ha
organizado la duodécima edición del Concurso de Ilustraciones para Postales del
Museo de Dinosaurios. El [...]
Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks. 2015. PNAS
Contaminated samples have evidently created some confusion in the timetable of life.
On the basis of ultra-clean analyses, an [...]
Arctic Ocean Seafloor Features MapGeology.com Oil and Natural Gas Basins of the Arctic OceanGeology.com A Shortage of Steam Coal in South Africa ?Mining.com Conoco Starts Steam Injection at Alberta Oil Sands [...]
When last we spoke on the subject of fool's gold, I introduced you to several famous people who'd mistaken it for real gold. Imagine how they'd feel if we yanked them out of their respective eras and...
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Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [01:53:00]
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Abertas as inscrições para o MESTRADO EM PALEONTOLOGIA. Para candidatos estrangeiros, foi recentemente criado o estatuto de "ESTUDANTE INTERNACIONAL", ao abrigo do qual estudantes não portugueses poderão [...]