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Wednesday, 30 December 2015

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MMXV 

Theropoda [22:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (245 visits) info
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 US
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

Appliance upgrades that save the most water, energy and cost 

AGU Meetings [21:00:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
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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

Cuverville Island and Sunset on Anvers Island 

Earthly Musings [18:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (218 visits) info
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 BE,US,AQ
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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 develop new tools to anticipate coastal pollution in Maine 

AGU Meetings [17:00:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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 US
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 [...]

An Eventful Echinoblog in 2015! #Recap! 

Echinoblog [15:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (233 visits) info
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 JP
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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 [...]

A year of Anne’s reading – looking back 

Highly Allochthonous [13:43:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info

 US
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 [...]

Earthquakes in Normandy? And why not in the middle of England... 

Stephane on Blogger Earthquakes, geology and related topics... but not only [12:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (114 visits) info
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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 [...]

Unidentified Crinoid Holdfast Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [10:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
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 Carboniferous; US
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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 [...]

Bible Reading, 2016 

The GeoChristian [07:29:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (203 visits) info
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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 [...]

Jiangsong, Chinese Super Reporter onboard the JR ! 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [17:36:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
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 CN
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Upcoming Geology Underfoot author talks 

Northwest Geology Field Trips [16:50:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info
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 [...]

All I Wanted for Christmas Was for These Pumps to Work 

State of the Planet [14:58:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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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 [...]

Flexible Necks Made the Classic “Dinosaur Death Pose” 

Laelaps [13:00:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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Dinosaur skeletons are often found in a curled up "death pose."

El disfraz de pterosaurio de Lisa Glover 

Koprolitos [10:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
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 US,IT
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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 [...]

I Desmostili: un ordine di mammiferi terziari poco conosciuto ma dalle abitudini particolari 

scienzeedintorni [08:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
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 Neogene,Paleogene; MX,GR,LK,US,IN,JP,PK,PA,,IT
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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 [...]

2016 Brings A Changing Weather Pattern, but El Nino and The Hot Oceans Still Rule. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [03:00:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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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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