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Tuesday, 02 February 2016

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Linux - the Xiaomi Miwifi mini router with openwrt 

Ontario-geofish [22:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info

 CN
OMG!  This is the cheapest ac router in the world.  Naturally, I didn't want to use it as a router, but just an access point.  The firmware it comes with is in all Chinese, and I wanted to put in openwrt.  This is not a project for you!  It was not a project for me! In the end I got it working with the latest openwrt image.  It has a lot of power and full ac.  But I don't how I got it

New Yellowstone Lake Submersible 

Lake Scientist [20:30:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info
category→science_technology
 US
The oceans are vast and still largely untapped scientific resources despite the massive-scale studies that they’ve hosted in recent decades. But much the same can be said about the large[...] The post New Yellowstone Lake Submersible appeared first on Lake

Die Furchensteine des Chiemsee sind 112 Jahr alt! 

//Krustenstein.de -- Infos zu Krustensteinen, Furchensteinen, Hirnsteinen und Onkoiden am Chiemsee [19:31:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
category→science_technology
Uuuups… Was soll das jetzt werden, woher kommt diese Zahl? Etwas präziser… Die Einschränkung, daß sich die Aktivität der beteiligten Algen nur auf einen schmalen Bereich des Eulitoral [...]

Upcoming Scientific Fieldwork, 2016 and Beyond 

State of the Planet [17:33:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
  On every continent and ocean, Earth Institute field researchers are studying the dynamics of climate, geology, natural hazards and ecology, and their practical applications to modern problems. [...]

How many feathers does a penguin have? 

March of the Fossil Penguins [16:48:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (301 visits) info
How many feathers does a penguin have? It seems like a straightforward thing to address, but it is also exactly the type of basic natural history question that often gets overlooked. It appears that no one had [...]

First days of Thailand fieldwork (+Video) 

Quake Hunters [16:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info
category→science_technology
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Evelien Boes, Kruawun Jankaew and I are currently in Thailand looking for sedimentary evidence of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.  Our main focus is on coastal lakes and we've spent the last two days [...]

Seize the Fleeting Light (Exposure) 

In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (183 visits) info
category→recreation
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Cameras have been around for so long—almost two centuries—and have become so common that we take them for granted. But how remarkable to capture light and create an image with it! We can preserve a [...]

Get ready... Get set... 

polar soils blog [15:26:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (295 visits) info
category→science_technology
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It’s almost time to start our next field season! Our field season begins when we fly south on February 18. That’s just a couple of weeks away!This year, we will complete our “latitudinal gradient” [...]

Neuer Masterstudiengang an der Universität Bremen 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [13:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (680 visits) info
category→business
 GB
Der englischsprachige und forschungsorientierte Masterstudiengang „Physical Geography: Environmental History” am Institut für Geographie der Universität Bremen vermittelt [...]

Flying through the Aurora Borealis 

The Way of the Geophysicist [13:41:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (700 visits) info
category→recreation
 CL,VU
Horacio Llorens and Red Bull take us on a breathtaking journey. Flying here is different. It’s dark, It’s cold, And the sky is on fire. Watch it yourself: The post Flying through the Aurora [...]

Anmeldung zur DEUQUA Tagung 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [13:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (165 visits) info
Die Anmeldung zur DEUQUA Tagung 2016 in Dresden ist nun möglich. Entsprechende Informationen und die Möglichkeit der Online-Anmeldung finden Sie auf den Tagungs-Homepage.

Deutsche Rohstoff: US-Beteiligungen bereiten neue Ölbohrungen vor 

Rohstoff Blog [10:35:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
category→business
 DE,IN,US
Bohrbeginn Ende 1. Quartal / Zusätzliche Flächen gesichert Heidelberg/Denver. Cub Creek Energy (CCE) und Elster Oil and Gas (EOG) berichten,

Ravished by Reagansaurus (Mandy de Sandra) 

Koprolitos [09:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (129 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 Jurassic; FR,NO,US,GB
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Los lectores más asiduos del blog ya conocen la curiosidad que despierta en Koprolitos el extraño fenómeno literario de la novela dinoerótica. Por aquí hemos comentado las historias paleozoofílicas de [...]

Science collaboration 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [07:30:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
category→recreation
Today's science presentations by the EXP 361 scientists were a testament to the collaborative philosophy behind IODP (International Ocean Discovery [...]

How to Add X and Y Coordinates in SAGA GIS 

Grindgis [03:53:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (256 visits) info
I have already written tutorial on how to add X and Y coordinates in QGIS and ArcGIS but not in SAGA GIS. So today I thought I should, for this I am taking few coordinates of world cities. These coordinates [...]

Financial Assurance Requirements are on the Horizon for Hard Rock Miners 

Mineral Law Blog [01:56:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (243 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
On January 29, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to finalize the long-awaited “financial assurance” regulations [...]

Thinking in mammoth time 

The Contemplative Mammoth [00:07:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (273 visits) info
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I told a group of students a while ago that we had red pandas in North America until “relatively recently.” Big mistake. “Wait,” one stopped me. “What do you mean by [...]

Finding a Thesis: The Northern Route onto Mineral Ridge and a Little Geology 

Looking for Detachment [18:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
category→recreation
 US
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Heading north out of Silver Peak, with The Crater in view. After checking out the southern route to Mineral Ridge while on my 1976 thesis quest, I headed north out of Silver Peak on then Highway 47 (now [...]

Increase in volcanic eruptions at the end of the ice age caused by melting ice caps and glacial erosion 

AGU Meetings [17:16:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info
category→science_technology
 GB
The combination of erosion and melting ice caps led to a massive increase in volcanic activity at the end of the last ice age, according to new research. As the climate warmed, the ice caps melted, decreasing [...]

Locks Centennial 

New Stories in Stone [16:40:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
category→culture_politics
 US
Today begins a 17-month-long commemoration of one of the great events in Seattle history. On July 4, 1917, the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Locks officially opened. It was the culmination of a multi-year [...]

"La Rivoluzione Piumata" 

Theropoda [16:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info
category→recreation
 IT,CH,US,AR
Mi metto un po' avanti, nel caso qualcuno sia interessato e voglia organizzarsi. Sabato 7 Maggio, alle ore 16.30, nell'ambito dei "Sabati del Capellini", presso il Museo Geologico e Paleontologico "Capellini" [...]

Flying through the Aurora Borealis 

The Way of the Geophysicist [15:29:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info
Horacio Llorens and Red Bull take us on a breathtaking journey. Flying here is different. It’s dark, It’s cold, And the sky is on fire. Watch it yourself: The post Flying through the Aurora [...]

What's New in Sea Star Wasting Disease? 

Echinoblog [15:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
category→gaming
 US
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image by Jonathan Martin So, my apologies for the delay between my last post and this one. Between traveling from the west coast, the blizzard and my laptop experiencing..."difficulty" I've missed [...]

Neuer Masterstudiengang an der Universität Bremen 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [13:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info
Der englischsprachige und forschungsorientierte Masterstudiengang „Physical Geography: Environmental History” am Institut für Geographie der Universität Bremen vermittelt [...]

Anmeldung zur DEUQUA Tagung 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [13:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (149 visits) info
category→business
 DE
Die Anmeldung zur DEUQUA Tagung 2016 in Dresden ist nun möglich. Entsprechende Informationen und die Möglichkeit der Online-Anmeldung finden Sie auf den Tagungs-Homepage.

Jaime Eduardo Powell: In memoriam 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [13:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
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Jaime Eduardo Powell: In

Deutsche Rohstoff: US-Beteiligungen bereiten neue Ölbohrungen vor 

Rohstoff Blog [10:35:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info
Bohrbeginn Ende 1. Quartal / Zusätzliche Flächen gesichert Heidelberg/Denver. Cub Creek Energy (CCE) und Elster Oil and Gas (EOG) berichten,

Landslides in Chile Part 5: Water waves triggered by landslides and the Mentirosa Island Landslide complex 

The Landslide Blog [08:50:02]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
category→recreation
 CL
The Mentirosa Island landslide complex comprises four tsunamigenic soil-rock slides in Patagonia, Chile, with a combined volume of 8 million cubic

Green and White in California...There's a drought here? Why yes...yes there is 

Geotripper [06:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (221 visits) info
category→arts_entertainment
 US
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What a sight for sore (and dry) eyes. Deep emerald fields of growing grass, and snow-capped peaks in the distance. Tropical palm trees. Spring? Hardly. It's the first of February in California, a place mired [...]

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GeoMika [02:00:25]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
category→recreation
It took twelve years, but the Opportunity Rover has climbed up the edge of Knudsen Ridge on Mars. The view is great — steep ridges, a dramatic slope, and the far lip of Endeavour Crater shaping the [...]

Understanding the 2015–16 El Niño and its impact on phytoplankton 

AGU Meetings [00:27:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info
category→science_technology
This is part of a new series of posts that highlight the importance of Earth and space science data and its contributions to society. Posts in this series showcase data facilities and data scientists; explain [...]

Thinking in mammoth time 

The Contemplative Mammoth [00:07:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
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I told a group of students a while ago that we had red pandas in North America until “relatively recently.” Big mistake. “Wait,” one stopped me. “What do you mean by [...]
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