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Monday, 05 October 2015

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Certificate Program to Focus on Environment and Security 

State of the Planet [23:10:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
category→health
 US
A new professional certificate program at Columbia University will address the linkages between environment and security, aimed at practitioners with responsibility for providing assessments and warnings regarding environment-security risks or for designing programs to manage such

Mining on 10 Million Acres in Six States Impacted by BLM’s Proposed Withdrawal 

Mineral Law Blog [22:45:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (220 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
On September 24, 2015, the federal Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) published a Notice of Proposed Withdrawal (“BLM notice”), proposing to withdraw from mineral location and entry federal lands identified as “sagebrush focal areas” in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. The BLM notice commences a two-year temporary segregation period, prohibiting location and entry … Continue

Vintage Dinosaur Art: Purnell's Find Out About Prehistoric Animals 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 SE,BE,GB
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Not for the first time, here's a fantastic 1970s book on prehistoric animals from Purnell, purveyors of fine model photography and anachronistic pop-up battles. Find Out About Prehistoric Animals is [...]

Paleo Profile: Kimbetopsalis simmonsae 

Laelaps [19:32:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
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Name: Kimbetopsalis simmonsae Meaning: “Simmon’s cutting shears of Kimbeto Wash” in recognition of mammal paleontologist Nancy Simmons, the

Dinossáurios terópodes não-avianos do Jurássico Superior de Portugal no I Congresso Internacional "As Aves na História Natural, na Pré-História e na História (Origem, Evolução e Domesticação) 

ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL [19:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info
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 Jurassic
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Decorreu de 23 a 27 de setembro, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal em Lisboa, o I Congresso Internacional "As Aves na História Natural, na Pré-História e na História (Origem, Evolução e [...]

JR Ambassador 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [14:29:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
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Imaggeo on Mondays: Mount Etna 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:00:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (269 visits) info
category→recreation
 US,CN,ES,IT
In this week’s Imaggeo on Monday’s image an almost Martian looking landscape, with ombre coloured soils, gives way to gently rolling hills, covered in luscious woods and vegetation. Were it not for the [...]

Playground planets - solar system to scale 

Earth Learning Idea [13:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
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'Playground planets' models the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the Sun. One of our readers has sent us a video clip which puts the distances into perspective. Click here to view. [...]

the departure: "Larguez les amarres!!" 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [12:47:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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ça y est ! le Joides a pris la mer à midi. Tout le monde sur le pont pour voir Darwin s'éloigner. Grand moment !! Vers 1h  retour vers les [...]

Los dinosaurios de Selectel por Paul Roshchin 

Koprolitos [10:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (638 visits) info
category→science_technology
 RU
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Duplicty: a tool providing encrypted backupPaul Roshchin es un diseñador gráfico de San Petersburgo (Rusia) que trabaja para la compañía de telecomunicaciones Selectel. En los últimos años ha venido [...]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 10/5-10/11 

BEYONDbones [03:00:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
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!  Lecture – American Intelligence, The History And [...]

Glacier flood from Skaftárkatlar cauldrons and other updates 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:50:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (614 visits) info
category→science_technology
This is going to be a short article since I don’t have a time to write a long one. The glacier flood from Skaftárkatlar cauldrons is mostly over. There continues to be a lot of water in rivers … [...]

Dinossáurios terópodes não-avianos do Jurássico Superior de Portugal no I Congresso "As Aves na História Natural, na Pré-História e na História" 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [20:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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 PT,BR
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Decorreu de 23 a 27 de setembro, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal em Lisboa, o I Congresso Internacional "As Aves na História Natural, na Pré-História e na História (Origem, Evolução e [...]

Is Nefertiti still buried in Tutankhamun’s tomb? Archaeologists examine a new theory 

BEYONDbones [19:26:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
category→science_technology
Tutankhamun has been in the news again, following online publication of Nicholas Reeves’s article that suggests that Tut’s tomb may still be keeping a very big secret: the burial of the king who ruled [...]

From Trinity to Hiroshima and Beyond (APG group exhibition) 

Friends of the Pleistocene [16:10:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
From October 6-16, 2015, the Atomic Photographers Guild will stage an exhibition at the Old Bank of Japan, Hiroshima Branch.  The building survived the atomic bombing in 1945 and is presently the site of an [...]

Trace fossils in the Juniata and Tuscarora Formations 

Mountain Beltway [14:12:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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 Silurian,Ordovician; US
Route 33 in Pendleton County, West Virginia cuts across the lower Paleozoic stratigraphic section. I went there this past spring on a sedimentology and stratigraphy field trip with the GMU sed/strat class. The [...]

Assistant Collections Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [13:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (173 visits) info
category→recreation
 Neogene,Quaternary; US,
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) seeks an Assistant Collections Manager (ACM) in Invertebrate Paleontology for 2 years of an NSF-awarded multi-institutional collections digitization [...]

Gulf Stream becomes confused 

Ontario-geofish [13:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
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 US,CA,GB,
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The main thing that keeps us Northern people warm are the giant oceanic plumes like the Gulf Stream. We are lucky by plate tectonics that there is a perfect ramp with South America deflecting the warm [...]

The seismically triggered landslide dam in Honshiyan, Yunnan, China: a review of a new paper 

The Landslide Blog [10:20:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (660 visits) info
category→science_technology
 CN
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in

Time Heals All Wounds. Or Does it Just Hide Them? The Ghosts of Nelder Grove 

Geotripper [09:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (581 visits) info
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 US
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It's a beautiful place, really. It was one of the most serene places I've been in my travels, away from busy roads, cities, tourist traps, and most of all, crowds. We were only 10 miles from Yosemite National [...]

Geophysyphus 

The Way of the Geophysicist [02:44:53]  recommend  recommend this post  (855 visits) info
category→recreation
 GR
Reading Time: 1 minutes Here at the way of the geophysicist. We love neologisms. How do you like this one?   The Story of Sisyphus Sisyphus is a figure from Greek mythology. He was a pretty smart fellow, [...]
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