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Sunday, 05 July 2015

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Iceland - Fire and Ice and Lots of Sunshine 

Earthly Musings [22:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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After leaving a foggy Svalbard, we headed south towards Iceland. I've been there many times before and have enjoyed the liquid love (rain) more than I care to remember. So it was with great excitement that we entered Icelandic airspace with a view that lasted three days!Annotated map of Iceland showing our route into the Keflavik Airport (red line). This is useful to show locations for the first three photos in this post (red circles with numbers).Iceland's north coast looking east over a [...]

More thoughts on the Joni Mitchell conference 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [21:52:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (641 visits) info
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I wanted to get my initial report on the Joni Mitchell conference out quickly. But since posting it, more thoughts have bubbled up through my mind. I’m thinking here mostly about how a humanities conference varies from a science one. Now of course this is only anecdote, nothing like a scientific survey: my sample size is

Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Lost World (Ladybird) 

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Ladybird books are a firm favourite of mine, since (like many other Brits) I have very fond memories of learning to read with them as a child - not just those bought for me at the time, but also hand-me-downs, [...]

The Petrified Forest 

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Macropleura macropleura brachiopod from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

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If I may paraphrase the song "New York, New York" by Gerard Kenny, Macropleura is a brachiopod so nice, they named it twice! Macropleura macropleura is a large brachiopod and hard to mistake for something else [...]

New Horizon Probe Has Anomaly- Switches to back-up Computer 

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  Here is an Update from NASA late on Saturday night…. New Horizons Team Responds to Spacecraft Anomaly The New Horizons spacecraft experienced an anomaly the afternoon of July 4 that led to a loss [...]

A Cladistic and Disparity Analysis of the Jurassic Park Franchise 

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Dei film di Jurassic Park si è detto molto. Molti di coloro che detestano l'idea che questi film siano un pretesto per parlare di scienza si ripiegano nel mantra acefalo del “è solo un film”. All'estremo [...]

Born This Day: Ernst Mayr 

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Any student of biology, or anyone with an interest in the natural world, will be familiar with Ernst Mayr who passed away on February 3rd in Bedford, Mass. Born in Kempton, Germany he joined the American [...]

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: A Compilation of Fear(somely cool geology) 

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Without a doubt, subduction zones are the most dangerous plate boundaries on the planet. Divergent plate boundaries produce earthquakes and occasional volcanoes, but nothing on the fearsome scale of the [...]

Frank Bruni’s Piece in the New York Times is a MUST Read 

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   I wish I could put words together this well. Frank Bruni’s California,Camelot and Vaccines in the NY Times today is worth the price of a Times  subscription by itself. A snapshot below, but [...]
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