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Friday, 06 May 2016
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool museophile (no, I did not just make that word up). I love to look at collections of amazing specimens and artifacts. Turns out I also love to hoard things — oh, I mean collect items of great … Continue reading
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [21:11:33]
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(146 visits) category→culture_politics
Please remember to support my work with donations or by buying from Amazon. My work takes often several hours during the day and my social income is low by any standard. The month of may is also going … Continue reading
Job Description: The Earth Institute seeks a part-time intern to support the Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MSSM) graduate program during the summer of 2016 from May 25, 2016 through September [...]
A new bill tightening oversight on the National Science Foundation’s large-scale projects is moving forward. The bill, H.R.5049 – NSF Major Research Facility Reform Act of 2016, gained approval from [...]
Dinosaur Home - Blogs [14:50:50]
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(128 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous; US,
In most LK habitats of the northern hemisphere, hadrosaurs were the predominant herbivores. Inasmuch as their success was due to high sea levels, which favored smaller taxa over sauropods, they tended to be of [...]
scienzeedintorni [09:55:00]
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(123 visits) category→science_technology Paleogene; IT,TH,LK,KE,US,ZM,FR,BE,KM,IN,MT,,AF,BR,MX,CH,AR
Il 6 maggio 1976, esattamente 40 anni fa, il Friuli è stato scosso da uno dei più gravi terremoti avvenuti in Italia nel XX secolo, avvertito in tutta l’Italia settentrionale e anche più a [...]
Koprolitos [08:46:00]
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(112 visits) category→arts_entertainment SE,PH,BO,US,PY,MX,NG
El pasado 17 de abril, Mafa Alborés recopilaba en su más que recomendable blog El Animal Invisible parte de la obra del fotógrafo Jorge Saenz, muy interesante en el marco de Koprolitos por la presencia de [...]
Today, we were at the BYU Museum of Paleontology, which is in a ridiculously scenic setting with snow-capped mountains on the horizon in almost every direction. We got through a lot of good work in [...]
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake occurred at almost the same location early this morning as the magnitude 3.8 from yesterday. No one has reported feeling the 1:30 am quake today.
The M=3.8 quake is the largest [...]
It is now obvious that my favourite geotech job is a ghost-town, probably cited for a zillion osha violations.
On to the secondary title. Since Brunel, it has been found that engineers design for 1 in [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:02:09]
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(120 visits) category→recreation PL,BE,
There is no better thing, on a cold and stormy winter’s evening, than to gather your friends for a night of games / board games. Fire blazing (if you have one), tasty snacks laid out and drinks poured, you [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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(167 visits) category→science_technology Ordovician; US
Among the rubble that was the eroding rock of the Viola formation I found a few good examples of the brachiopod Oxoplecia gouldi. The shell is subrectangular to suboval in outline with both valves roughly [...]
Wooster Geologists [06:01:54]
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(232 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous; NL
These striking little brachiopods are gifts from Clive Champion, a generous Englishman with whom I occasionally exchange packets of fossils. In January I received a surprise box with lots of delicious little [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:05:27]
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(188 visits) category→science_technology CA
The wildfire in NW Alberta grew much larger overnight and now over 85,000 people are evacuated as fire crews try to save the city. The question about how this is related to climate change is an easy one, a [...]
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