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Wednesday, 30 December 2015
Il
2015 volge al termine, e – come tradizione vuole – ecco il mio
post che cerca di fare un bilancio degli ultimi 12 mesi. Il
duemilaquindici sarà ricordato come l'anno della consacrazione
definitiva della Nostalgia quale Primo Motore delle nostre esistenze.
No, non parlo del fatto che al cinema i maggiori incassi dell'anno
siano due brutte fotocopie di film vecchi di 22 e 38 anni fa,
fotocopie
A new analysis helps consumers choose which appliances to swap for more efficient models and save money in the process, with some surprising results. Best buys include the furnace and water heater, rather than the more visible clothes dryer and refrigerator, the researchers
After the Christmas holiday on board, we made a landing at Cuverville Island, then to the south side of Anvers Island at Arthur Harbor where the US has their peninsular station. Have a look!December [...]
Scientists from the University of Maine, University of New Hampshire, and College of the Atlantic have now designed a new way to predict fine-scale watershed contamination along Maine’s coast. Their work [...]
So, I don't normally do these "end of the year" recaps, but man, 2015 was BUSY. I travelled to three continents, described a NEW FAMILY of starfish in addition to all the other stuff.. Here are [...]
For the last year, I’ve tweeted every paper I read. Inspired by Jacquelyn Gill’s resolution and hashtag #365papers, I wanted to spur myself to read more and to see how well I did. I never thought [...]
Stephane on Blogger Earthquakes, geology and related topics... but not only [12:22:00]
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Normandy is better known for its placide brown-stained cows and smelly cheeses, its World-War-II landing beaches or its chalky (retreaving) cliffs than for its natural "disasters"... Even if we were sometimes [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [10:09:00]
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This image is of an unidentified crinoid holdfast attached to larger crinoid stem fossil. It was found in the New Providence Formation (Keokuk) of Scott County Indiana USA. This creature existed in the [...]
I haven’t been blogging much in 2015. That may change in early 2016 once I am done writing Earth Science: God’s World, Our Home, a Christian middle school Earth Science textbook from Novare [...]
Author talks: GEOLOGY UNDERFOOT IN WESTERN WASHINGTON I will be talking about my book in: OAK HARBOR Thursday January 21, 3 PM Sno-Isle Public Library, 1000 SE Regatta Dr., Oak Harbor, WA. SNOHOMISH [...]
We’ve just completed our first full station and are remarkably pleased with the results. We collected 8 seawater samples to measure helium isotopes; 20 to measure thorium and protactinium isotopes; 7 in-situ [...]
Dinosaur skeletons are often found in a curled up "death pose."
La ingeniera estadounidense Lisa Glover se propuso revivir a los reptiles mesozoicos cuando tuvo que llevar a cabo su proyecto de emprendimiento técnico en la Lehigh University. Para ello construyó en primer [...]
scienzeedintorni [08:22:00]
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Ci sono 7 casi documentati di un ritorno al mare da parte di Mammiferi placentati; alcuni sono conosciutissimi dal pubblico (orso polare, lontra marina, Pinnipedi e Cetacei); altri meno (i Sirenidi). Inoltre [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:00:04]
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The weather pattern is finally changing. We’ve seen 5-6 weeks of extreme warmth in the Eastern U.S., floods and tornadoes in the south, and in the West, cold and snow. The new year will be different, but [...]
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