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Monday, 08 February 2016
Happy Year of the Monkey!
Our three scientists working at Japanese universities created a New Year's dragon and welcomed in the Year of the Monkey, complete with candy erupting as fire from the dragon's craw. A much more entertaining staff meeting! Unfortunately I only have a photo of the puppet's head - if someone shares a photo of Francisco, Kaoru and Masako performing in it, I will replace mine forMonday Geology Picture: Great Barrier Reef, Australia
For today’s “Monday Geology Picture” post I thought I’d share one shot of the Great Barrier Reef that my husband took during our vacation to Australia last year. Stay tuned for some [...]Gearing Up for Our First Cores
As they get to know their ship, the scientists aboard the Joides Resolution prepare to drill their first sediment cores along the Natal Valley off the coast of southernExtremer Frontalaufprall auf der Erde
Neue, in „Science“ veröffentlichte Isotopenanalysen sprechen für die These, dass vor rund 4,5 Milliarden Jahren ein planetenartiger Himmelskörper tief in die Erde eingedrungen und eine [...]Old Friends (tree-following)
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [19:15:00]
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Getting in Touch With the Belemnites
Belemnites are often found as bullet-like shells, but rare fossils show what they really looked like inWEBINAR: Yes, Humans Really Are Causing Earthquakes
Learning from the Taiwan earthquake
Yeah, this is the first big 'learning' earthquake since Chi-chi (also in Taiwan). We could learn so much if we could read Chinese. I might have to wait for the papers, but they'll be behind the pay-wall. [...]On the Surface, Feeling Further Away from the Ocean than Ever
My German colleague and I could conceptualize five kilometers horizontally—the same as her bike ride to work, the same as the first ever race I ran. Neither of us could quite grasp what flipping 5 kilometers [...]Rock game - characteristics of rock types
Imaggeo on Mondays: Three coloured pools
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With the Imaggeo Photo Contest opening last week, what better than feature one of the 2015 competition finalists as this week’s Imaggeo on Mondays image. In this post, Irene Angeluccetti, author of the [...]
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Kyōryū Manga I: Osamu Tezuka
Guest Blog: Exploring the Sustainable Development Goals at the University of Tübingen (Germany)
Geology for Global Development [09:00:55]
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Solmaz Mohadjer and Sebastian Mutz, University of Tübingen researchers, recently designed and facilitated a seminar on the topic of Geology and the Sustainable Development Goals. Below, they share some [...]
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Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 2/8-2/14
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! Last week’s featured #HMNSBlockParty creation is by [...]60 Minutes of Real Climate Science
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:07:25]
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It’s almost impossible for the average person with no science background to get good basic info about climate change (on TV or online). So, here’s some information that you can rely on. First [...]
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Climate Change Isn’t Just a 21st Century Problem
Humans have been burning fossil fuels for only about 150 years, yet that has started a cascade of profound changes that at their current pace will still be felt 10,000 years from now, a new studySpinosaurus
Mit der Sonderausstellung „Spinosaurus“ (9.2.– 12.6.2016) zeigt das Museum für Naturkunde Berlin das weltweit erste nach wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen erstellte Skelettmodell des [...]Ooma working totally for me
Geowissenschaften für die Gesellschaft
Warum sind die Geowissenschaften so wichtig für uns? Die European Federation of Geologists EFG hat eine Broschüre veröffentlicht,die das sehr gut erklärt. Sollte man sich wirklich mal zu Gemüte führen! [...]
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Presentación en el MNCN de la aplicación DinoScience 3D
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Il terremoto di Taiwan del 5 febbraio: una situazione geologica particolare e un monito per l'Italia
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Cenozoic; FR,IT,ID,AU,TH,CN,TW,LK,US,KM,JP,PH,CH,,DE,AR,FI
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Mendel's 1st Paper Published & Ignored
Taking responsibility for disaster risk reduction
The recent Taiwan earthquake and the Samarco tailings dam failure both illustrate the critical role of individual responsibility in disaster riskThe long, long travel from rock to soil (I)
There is hardly a subject in all nature, of which the majority of people has so unclear terms and which has hitherto been so completely misunderstood, as the soil on which they walk. F.A. Fallou Soil is often [...]Top concepts:
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