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Sunday, 01 November 2015

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SER INVISIBLE 

episcophagus [23:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (739 visits) info
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El Hombre Invisible, uno de los primeros personajes con poderes de la ciencia ficción, suele ser un villano. El protagonista de la novela de H. G. Wells quiere usar su poder para chantajear al mundo, pues nadie podrá esquivar su mortal y asesino ataque.Ese planteamiento se mantiene hasta la última versión cinematográfica, donde los protagonistas van cayendo uno por uno ante el monstruo

I tanti interrogativi sull'origine di Homo floresensis, gli "hobbit" scoperti in Indonesia nel 2003 

scienzeedintorni [12:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (720 visits) info
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 Quaternary; DK,IT,ES,LV,ID,PH,TH,SD,IL,HK,US,AU,CN,KM,FR,ZA,,IN,GR,GB,CH
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Flores fa parte dell'arcipelago delle piccole isole della Sonda e si estende per 14.000 km3 (più o meno come la Calabria) ed è diventata notissima per gli antropologi per la scoperta nella caverna di Liang Bua, vicino alla città di Ruteng di una popolazione umana nana che vive lì fino a 12.000 anni fa, nel tardo Pleistocene. Questi esseri sono stati soprannominati Hobbit (in omaggio al Signore degli anelli e noti alla Scienza come Homo floresiensis. Una scoperta scioccante, perché non [...]

Born This Day: Gavin de Beer 

Palaeoblog [11:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (665 visits) info
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<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/host/debeer.html">de Beer</a> (Nov. 1, 1899 – June 21, 1972) was <a [...]

Born This Day: Alfred Wegener 

Palaeoblog [13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (655 visits) info
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Visit The Paleomap Project Alfred Lothar Wegener (Nov. 1, 1880 – Nov, 1930) was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who first gave a well-developed hypothesis of continental drift. He suggested (1912) [...]

Halloween359, quand la science inspire le déguisement.. 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [18:01:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (265 visits) info
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Les chercheurs n'ont pas été à court d'idées pour leur déguisement:  à vous de retrouver qui est qui : le spécialiste des [...]

Cars to become the next wave of software and commodity parts 

Ontario-geofish [15:44:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info
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Reference Ken Okuyama is an automobile visionary and he fears that Apple and Google might take over the car industry. I think his fears are well-founded. They are probably right that it will be the [...]

De vuelta de las XXXI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [18:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (157 visits) info
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A principios del mes pasado, desde el 7 hasta el 10 de Octubre, tuvieron lugar en Baeza (Jaén) las XXXI Jornadas de Paleontología, organizadas por la Sociedad Española de Paleontología. En esta [...]

The 1755 Nov.1st Great Lisbon Earthquake: a seismological, historical and cultural landmark 

Stephane on Blogger Earthquakes, geology and related topics... but not only [11:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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The November, 1st, 1755 Lisbon earthquake and related disasters (tsunami, fires) deeply influenced the french philosophers of the Enlightenment Age ("Le Siècle des Lumières"), and then the European cultural [...]

To Drill or not to Drill that is the Question : contriubutor Clay Furman 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [19:14:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (74 visits) info
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 US
The  JR drillers are busy drilling 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Students have many questions about drilling and since the driller are busy on [...]

A Series of Hopefully Fortunate Events: Saying Goodbye to Yosemite's High Country (for now) 

Geotripper [04:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (655 visits) info
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Our field studies trip to Yosemite National Park reached a climax when we reached Tioga Pass (9,943 ft / 3,031 m) at the east end of the park. The pass is the highest highway route in the state (a paved road [...]

EGEA: Who are we and what do we do? 

Digital Geography [12:20:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (643 visits) info
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We are EGEAns and part of the European Geography Association for students and young Geographers (or in short EGEA), a network to create, explore and share different approaches of geography in a culturally [...]

New Feathered Dinosaur From Alberta 

Palaeoblog [17:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (248 visits) info
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 Cretaceous; CA
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A densely feathered ornithomimid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, Canada. Cret. Res. Illo by Julius Csotonyi The discovery of an Ornithomimus with preserved [...]

Eucalyptocrinus elrodi Crinoid Calyx Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [11:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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 Silurian; US
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These images are of a fully intact Eucalyptocrinus elrodi crinoid calyx fossil. It was found in the Waldron Shale of Shelby County Indiana USA. Fossil species is named after Dr. Moses Newton Elrod [...]

The Sargasso comes to the Caribbean 

Ontario-geofish [16:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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The Caribbean is choked with Sargasso weed.  Don't go there!  This is why, the equatorial currents from Africa are weak for some reason, leading to a big Sargasso playground off Brazil, fed by Amazon [...]

The story behind "Last Call" 

Earth and Mind Blog [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
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The documentary film "Last Call" depicts the making of the book Limits to Growth in the early 1970's, its subsequent vilification throughout the 1980's and 90's, and then finally the
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