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Monday, 31 August 2015

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Die Wunderwelt des Asbest – Video von 1942 

Mente et Malleo [22:58:13]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info
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 DE,AU,UM,ID
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 [...]

Seeing the Amazon’s Future Through the Fog 

State of the Planet [22:32:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info
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Scientists have developed a new approach to modeling the water and carbon cycles in the Amazon that could lead to better climate forecasts and improved water resource

7000 Jahre: Ältester Leukämie-Fund - Prähistorisches Skelett zeigt Anzeichen der Krebserkrankung 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [21:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (223 visits) info
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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 [...]

Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Geology Department at The College of Wooster 

Wooster Geologists [19:33:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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 US,IN
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 [...]

What drives the plates? 

Earth Learning Idea [18:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
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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 [...]

Geochemists: Living in the Lab of Luxury 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [16:55:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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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 [...]

Volcano lightning in Chile 

The Way of the Geophysicist [13:16:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (308 visits) info
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 GB,CL
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, just a scientist with a different opinion? 

Real Climate [12:02:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (238 visits) info
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 AU
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 [...]

Un triciclo llamado Sue 

Koprolitos [08:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (219 visits) info
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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 [...]

Florida Pool Pushed Out Of Ground After Heavy Rains 

GeoPrac.net [08:24:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

Live-Blogging Richard Waitt's In the Path of Destruction: LOLspeak Edition 

Rosetta Stones [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (226 visits) info
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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... -- Read [...]

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week 

Highly Allochthonous [03:14:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (192 visits) info
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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 [...]

Eleaecrinus verneuili Blastoid Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [01:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (217 visits) info
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 Devonian; US
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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, [...]

Taking Students to the Triassic: An Interview With Paleontologist Robert Gay 

Laelaps [21:00:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (197 visits) info
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 Triassic
Thanks for taking the time to chat with me, Rob. Can you fill readers in on where you

CBS Sunday Morning - Geology in the movies 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [18:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info
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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 [...]

Il basso livello dei prezzi del petrolio di questo periodo: cause e conseguenze 

scienzeedintorni [17:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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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 [...]

U of Alberta VP Exhibit, 1935 

Palaeoblog [16:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
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Thanks to Clive Coy for the

Imaggeo on Mondays: Mola de Lord 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [12:42:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
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 Paleogene; TR,ES,FR,CN,KM,MA,ZA,,US
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 [...]

Dinosaur Britain airs tonight! 

Green Tea and Velociraptors [10:47:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info
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 GB,
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, [...]

Tunneling machine's front end bolted in place 

GeoPrac.net [08:25:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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 US,IN
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 [...]

When Comedians Are Doing The Job Reporters SHOULD be Doing 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:50:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (205 visits) info
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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” [...]

Vitrais paleontológicos e megafauna brasileira 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [03:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (227 visits) info
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 BR,UM,IN,FR
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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 [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 8/31-9/6 

BEYONDbones [03:00:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (133 visits) info
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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, [...]
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