This is the second Andrea Wulf book I’ve read in the past month. It’s a biography of a great naturalist and popularizer of science and travel writing, who at the same time is largely forgotten in the modern English speaking world. Alexander von Humboldt’s intellectual impact is vast, Wulf argues, leading to everything from Darwin’s wanderlust (and thus, to the observations that led to the idea of descent with modification
JOIDES Resolution blogs [21:05:31]
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As I mentioned two days ago (internet failure yesterday, sorry), when the whole round core gets split, the working half goes to the sampling table, and the archive half goes on its own journey.
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Tsunamis are a very real threat in the Indian Ocean. Most people will immediately think of the 2004 tsunami and the Sumatra subduction zone, but the Arabian Sea has seen strong tsunamis in the past, too. In [...]
The global trend toward hotter summers could make parts of the Middle East and tropics “practically uninhabitable” by the end of the century, new research published this week
Wow, a first for me. A book of mine (Cairns: Messengers in Stone) was referenced in an article in Nature. The article is titled “Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing” and was written by a team of [...]
drip | david’s really interesting pages... [15:50:11]
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So I’m modeling a gorgonopsid for Christian Kammerer. A bunch of them, actually. And I’ve started with a biomechanical model. Not a skeleton. Skeletons are a lot of work, but there are more [...]
Telah terjadi gempa kuat dengan kekuatan M7.9 (EMSC), pada tanggal 2 Maret 2016, Gempa dari kedalaman 10 km di bawah laut itu dilaporkan terjadi sekitar pukul 19.49 WIB. Lokasi gempa terjadi di 5.16 LS, 94.05 [...]
If you’re like me, you’re not a grown-up, despite all indicators to the contrary, and as such, you like playing with toys. I like the challenge of a good puzzle, and I like the sense of completion [...]
WeBlog Aragosaurus [09:32:00]
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El IGME va a facilitar a la UTE de la que forma parte, constituida por IGME-LNEG-IMPULSO, un proceso de selección para contratación de personal que la UTE precisa para el desarrollo del Plan de Cartografía [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [09:28:43]
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A while back, I mentioned that I’d written and released VertFigure, a program for drawing schematic comparative diagrams of vertebral columns. Matt and I used it in our vertebral bifurcation paper to [...]
This month’s open thread. Pros and cons of celebrity awareness-raising on climate? The end of the cherry-picking of ‘pauses’ in the satellite data? Continuing impacts of El Niño? Your choice [...]
The President of the Geological Society of America has weighed in on the legislative proposal to end registration of geologists in Arizona. We received a copy of the letter Dr. Jon Price sent to Rep. Warren [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [19:33:00]
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I enjoy wearing my love of prehistory on my sleeve (I'm wearing my Raven Amos Ichthyovenator as I type and my Rebecca Groom Microraptor just arrived in the post). For one, it's fun just to have some amazing [...]
Come one, come all to the internet phenom, the most nerdy fun alternative march madness event ever: Mammals March Madness 2016! http://mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2016/02/mammal-march-madness-2016.html?m=1 Will [...]
After 12 years of blogging here, I've migrated the Palaeoblog over to Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/Palaeoblog. This blog will remain here as an archive.
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ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [14:47:00]
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Further work for my upcoming project.The T-Rex for my
OKEANOS Explorer is BACK!!! And even though they've only been able to venture into the field for two days, there's already some AWESOME video which inspires this week's post!!
Sunday, the ROV spied this [...]
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Geology for Global Development [09:30:55]
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Christopher Barry is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. He has written for the GfGD Blog in the past – detailing his contribution to water projects in Burkina Faso and fundraising [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:36:56]
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..and that’s just to start. Scott Kelly landed inKazakhstan, after 340 days in space early Wednesday. He deserves the thanks of the nation and of the World for taking us along. His photos of our [...]
My first animation test cylce on Mr. Iguanodon. It is too fast, but if the overall motions slow down, it should move with a sense of bulk and mass. To my knowledge this is the first time a Waterhouse Dawkins [...]
I put a lot of work into this website. It mostly happens when something is going on in Iceland, earthquake swarm or an eruption. But between those times things are quiet in Iceland the traffic to this website [...]