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Friday, 06 May 2016

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Discreet Hoarding: The Mystery of the Disappearing Horses and Cabinets of Curiosity 

BEYONDbones [21:12:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
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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

Please remember to support my work (writing on this website) 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [21:11:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (146 visits) info
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

Summer 2016 Part-Time Internship, MS in Sustainability Management Program 

State of the Planet [20:38:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info
category→science_technology
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 [...]

New Bill Aims to Tighten Regulations on NSF’s Large Projects 

Speaking of Geoscience [16:29:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
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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 [...]

Giant Hadrosaurs 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [14:50:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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 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 [...]

6 maggio 1976: 40 anni fa il terremoto del Friuli. Le deformazioni attuali nelle Alpi Orientali 

scienzeedintorni [09:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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 Paleogene; IT,TH,LK,KE,US,ZM,FR,BE,KM,IN,MT,,AF,BR,MX,CH,AR
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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 [...]

Los dinosaurios viajeros de Jorge Saenz 

Koprolitos [08:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
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 SE,PH,BO,US,PY,MX,NG
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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 [...]

SV-POW! endorses Triceratops 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [03:55:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (75 visits) info
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 [...]

Magnitude 3.4 earthquake follows yesterday's M=3.8 event 

Arizona Geology [17:04:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
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 US
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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 [...]

Geotechnical Engineering #13 - Final, Public Safety and Engineering 

Ontario-geofish [14:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (672 visits) info
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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 [...]

GeoSciences Coloumn: Hazagora – will you survive the next disaster? 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:02:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
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 [...]

Oxoplecia gouldi brachiopod from the Viola formation of Oklahoma 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info
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 Ordovician; US
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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’s Fossil of the Week: A craniid brachiopod from the Upper Cretaceous of The Netherlands 

Wooster Geologists [06:01:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (232 visits) info
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 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 [...]

Roaring Inferno in Alberta is What Climate Change Looks Like. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:05:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (188 visits) info
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 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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