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Thursday, 04 August 2016

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The Coup in Turkey: the Twitter Perspective 

Digital Geography [22:46:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
The coup/attempt in Turkey kept me up from going to sleep after the two nice hours of “Back to the Future” on German television. So despite of the tragedy behind it: twitter was exploding as I watched the news coming in. I was interested in the timeline of tweets, locations and “everything”. I downloaded about 10Gb of twitter data and here is my analysis for everything ‘#turkey’ from Friday till Monday. When I first thought about it and trying to get tweets [...]

All the little things: Thoughts of someone who came back 

Water and Megacities [22:38:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
Spiritual journey Since I was a child, I was raised in a rational, non-religious way. Nevertheless, I attended lessons in religion, not only Christianity, and always have been interested in other religions, as they show a part of the culture …Read more

Macbeth! 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [22:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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Wonder Where Pepperoni Went? Now We Know 

State of the Planet [20:08:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
Big Mac, Pepperoni, Billie Jo, Birdy Sanders, Bertie, Journey, Hippy and Twitter flew an average of about 1,215 km. “Paul,” named for a teacher who had passed away, traveled 3,220

Earlier snowmelt carries drastic consequences for forests 

Geospace [16:00:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (176 visits) info
Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon

San Francisco Millennium Tower Has Settled 16 Inches 

GeoPrac.net [15:06:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info
The residential high-rise Millennium Tower in San Francisco has settled a total of 16 inches since opening, 2 inches deferentially.  A spokesman for the tower owner blames the settlement on the excavation [...]

Wooster Geologists in Minnesota 

Wooster Geologists [14:03:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (159 visits) info
Four students, Geological Technician Nick Wiesenberg and Professor Mark Wilson (me!) have just completed eight days of geological fieldwork in the Upper Ordovician of southeastern Minnesota as part of [...]

A wet cave and the Mighty Mississippi River 

Wooster Geologists [14:01:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (665 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — Since Team Minnesota efficiently finished its fieldwork yesterday, we have two days before the students fly out of the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. The good weather has given us a [...]

Paleontological fieldwork in southeastern Minnesota 

Wooster Geologists [13:30:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (677 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — It was a good day for fossil collecting on the Minnesota prairie. Above you see a handful of articulated orthid brachiopods collected by Nikki Bell at the Shop Quarry exposure near [...]

Wooster Geologists tramping through the brush of southern Minnesota 

Wooster Geologists [13:28:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — The middle of the summer is not the best time to do fieldwork in southern Minnesota. The thick and diverse plants make each journey to an abandoned quarry wall or roadcut a jungly [...]

Team Minnesota Assembles! 

Wooster Geologists [13:26:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (145 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — The first Team Minnesota of Wooster Geologists has now gathered for its work in this beautiful state. Above from the left is Rachel Wetzel (’17), Dean Thomas (’17), [...]

Un curiós desplom gravitacional per fases a la riera de Merlès -i altres consideracions- (Osona) 

Bloc de camp [12:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (233 visits) info
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En aquesta entrada aprofito abans que res per fer una mica d'apologia de la riera de Merlès en conjunt, doncs dins el context de Catalunya  és un curs fluvial força insòlit. Neix als peus dels Rasos de [...]

The Evolution Of Alioramus 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [12:16:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
In 1976 Kurzanov described an unusual tyrannosaur from Nogoon Tsav. It appeared closely related to Tarbosaurus yet had features which set it apart, such as conspicuous bumps atop its snout, and a [...]

Was kann bei Bitcoins alles schiefgehen? 

Mente et Malleo [08:56:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
„58 Millionen Euro an Bitcoin gestohlen“ war die gestrige Schlagzeile des Tages. Eine weitere Handelsplattform wurde nach eigenen Angaben Opfer eines Hackerangriffs und verlor über 100.000 der wertvollen [...]

Cascades, Volcanoes and Fantastic Fossils! Seattle's Burke Museum, Part 2 

Rosetta Stones [06:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (110 visits) info
Welcome to the second leg of our Burke Museum visit! In this one we get to meet a very awesome sabre kitty, enjoy some of the prettiest rocks and fossils ever, and lie in the center of a volcano -- Read more [...]

The Geoscience Papers of the Future: a modern publication strategy for data management and scientific publication 

Geospace [20:31:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (625 visits) info
Many data used in scientific papers are not accessible by reading the papers, which makes it difficult to understand and reuse. To effectively communicate data results and preserve observations, simulations, [...]

Photomicrograph- Late Ordovician Calcite Cement Stratigraphy In Cathodoluminescence 

Reporting on a Revolution [18:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
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Cathodoluminescence (CL) brings out beautifully the hidden growth history of calcite crystals. This photomicrograph is of a Late Ordovician pore space from the Fernvale Limestone, Georgia, Southern [...]

A Tribute To Birds 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [17:03:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
I’d like to dedicate this blog post to the only class of dinosaurs alive today: the Aves, what we know as birds. Some people might not realize it, but by evolution and phylogeny, birds are in fact [...]

To School and Beyond 

BEYONDbones [15:30:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info
It’s that time of year again! Whether you love heading back to school or wishing summer would last another month, there’s still time to visit the always exciting exhibits at the museum as well as [...]

Who do you think most deserves the title of the Mother of Geology? 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [14:41:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info
Much ink is spilled hailing the work of the early fathers of geology – and rightly so! James Hutton is the mind behind the theory of uniformitarianism, which underpins almost every aspect of geology and [...]

A visit to the Dalles of St. Croix in Wisconsin 

Wooster Geologists [14:02:33]  recommend  recommend this post  (692 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — On its last day in the field, Team Minnesota had a geological trip to the Dalles of St. Croix in Interstate State Park, Wisconsin and Minnesota. It was beautiful, and we [...]

Team Minnesota finishes its work (in Iowa, funny enough) 

Wooster Geologists [13:31:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (631 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — We returned to Decorah, Iowa, today to measure and sample the Decorah Shale (Upper Ordovician) in its type locality. It was much drier here than on our last attempt! Above is the [...]

The work begins 

Wooster Geologists [13:29:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — Today we started collecting specimens and data for the Team Minnesota student Independent Study projects. We began with a long drive south to Decorah, Iowa, to measure a thick [...]

Team Minnesota visits the Upper Ordovician of Iowa 

Wooster Geologists [13:27:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
Rochester, Minnesota — Team Minnesota traveled south today to visit exposures of our three favorite formations: the Platteville Limestone, Decorah Shale, and Cummingsville Limestone. Where best to see [...]

Bardarbunga: Schwarmbeben 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [13:21:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
Unter dem Bardarbunga ereignete sich ein

THE TWO YORKSHIRETWITTERS... o porqué los pokemon molaban antes, no como los de ahora 

episcophagus [12:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (111 visits) info
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Hace unas semanas dio comienzo el fenómenos Pokemon Go. Con la invasión urbana de cazadores virtuales llegó la oleada de quejas usuales... _ Ya podíais estar buscando trabajo en vez de pokemons (iré [...]

Notes from the Monsoon in Grand Canyon National Park 

Geotripper [09:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
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One of the most awesome things I've ever seen Timing is everything. If one schedules a trip to the American Southwest in July or August, one may very well have to contend with the monsoons, the change in [...]

Good Intro Video on Drilled Shaft Construction 

GeoPrac.net [08:04:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (127 visits) info
This is a really nice video for folks new to the industry who want to learn about drilled shafts. It has some great photos and hits the high points of what the advantages of drilled shafts are, a bit about [...]

Harga dan Spesifikasi Vivo Y35 

Mineraland Chile [03:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (113 visits) info
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Harga dan Spesifikasi Vivo Y35 - Sekarang ini sangat banyak info tentang pengembangan gadget. Satu diantaranya yakni HP Vivo Y35 yang disebut product dari Vivo Smartphone. Makin banyak sebagai pilihan untuk [...]
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