Manchmal findet man auf Youtube ja regelrechte Perlen, und dieses Video ist wohl eine von den wirklich erlesenen. Es geht, wie unschwer zu erraten ist, um Asbest. Vielleicht muss man noch dazu sagen, dass dieses Video aus dem Jahr 1942 stammt, aber das dürfte manches in dem Video nur unzureichend erklären. Es geht nämlich weniger um die Gefahren von Asbest, sondern vielmehr um die zahllosen tollen technischen Anwendungen, welche die Wunderfaser ermöglicht. Bis hin zu unbrennbaren [...]
Wissenschaftler des Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and
Palaeoenvironment und der Universität Tübingen haben den wahrscheinlich
ältesten bisher bekannten Fall von Leukämie gefunden. In einem etwa [...]
Wooster Geologists [19:33:22]
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Every year our Administrative Coordinator Patrice Reeder masterfully assembles the Annual Report of Wooster’s Geology Department. Every year this document grows in detail, creativity and information. This [...]
The new ELI today is 'What drives the plates? - using a pupil model to demonstrate that slab pull is the main plate-driving force'
Recent evidence has shown that the traditional view of mantle convection [...]
JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:55:05]
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Most of the scientists are based up on the core deck, where they have easy access to the sediment as it comes in. The downside is they don't have much [...]
The Way of the Geophysicist [13:16:32]
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Reading Time: 1 minutesVolcanic plumes trigger some spectacular phenomena. In Chile we see lightning within the ash plume. Mesmerizing footage.The post Volcano lightning in Chile appeared first on The Way of [...]
Bjørn Lomborg is a well-known media personality who argues that there are more important priorities than reducing emissions to limit global warming. In a recent controversy centering on him, the Australian [...]
Por Koprolitos ya hemos visto bicicletas dinosaurianas como la del noruego Markus Moestue, y en esta ocasión traemos un triciclo con forma de tiranosaurio fabricado en Portland (Oregon, Estados Unidos). Mide [...]
The source website is calling this some kind of 'reverse sinkhole', which is definitely not the case. The article says there was a period of very heavy rain for about 11 days before this happened, with some [...]
I'm reading USGS geologist Richard Waitt's exciting Mount St. Helens book, In the Path of Destruction. I'm live-blogging the experience as I go! Join me for a sometimes serious, sometimes funny...
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(Actually, the last two weeks, because we got busy and didn't post last week. But we have good excuses, as Chris had his first PhD student pass his oral exams and proceed to candidacy and Anne had two papers [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [01:13:00]
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This is a picture of an intact blastoid. These types of fossils are somewhat rare. It appears to be an Eleaecrinus verneuili. The fossil was found in the Jeffersonville Limestone of Clark County, Indiana, [...]
Thanks for taking the time to chat with me, Rob. Can you fill readers in on where you
Here is a recent story from CBS Sunday morning talking about the new film San Andreas. The Sunday Morning team interview USGS seismologist Lucy Jones about what is and what isn't real. Very similar to my [...]
Si fa molto parlare delle attuali basse quotazioni del petrolio. Trovo quindi interessante puntualizzare come mai siamo arrivati a questo punto e cosa ci sia sotto. Non so se e quando i prezzi torneranno a [...]
Thanks to Clive Coy for the
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:42:32]
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From the easterly Atlantic waters of the Bay of Biscay to the Catalan wild coast (Costa Brava) in the west, the Spanish Pyrenees stretch 430 km across the north of the country. At the foothills of the Catalan [...]
Green Tea and Velociraptors [10:47:32]
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A fantastic new series on Dinosaurs of the British Isles airs tonight on ITV! It stars Dean Lomax, a professional palaeontologist based pretty much everywhere in the UK. It seems to be based off a book of his, [...]
The troubled Alaska Way Viaduct Replacement Tunnel TBM known as Bertha has reached a milestone in its repair. The front cutterhead has been repaired, and has been lowered back into the access shaft to be [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:50:27]
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It’s not just John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, now you can add Bill Maher who called out Rick Santorum, when he made a ridiculously false claim about climate science. Santorum “claimed” [...]
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [03:51:00]
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Vitrais e paleontologia formam uma combinação tão bonita quanto rara. Durante a construção do Grande Hotel de Araxá, em Minas Gerais no Brasil, foram descobertos numerosos vertebrados representantes da [...]
Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week! Fan Faves for 30 Day Film Festival September 1-30, [...]