I recently mentioned that I had a bunch of stories in my back pocket that were aging so that they wouldn't be quite as fresh in the memories of others. This is one of them.
A long time ago, I wrote about inconvenient deaths and fieldwork.
Sometimes life happens and you wriggle out of what you were doing to take care of it. Sometimes life happens and it's not that easy.
When my favorite
La participación tortuguil en las XXXII Jornadas de Paleontología no se limitó a la puesta al día sobre el registro de Pleurodira de Europa, sino también sobre un linaje africano. En concreto, en ese [...]
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One of the highlights of my honeymoon in Italy was our trip to Pompeii. Both my wife and I are big classics nerds so for us a visit to Pompeii had something of a pilgrimage aspect to it. For me, as a [...]
News über die Vulkane Kamtschatkas und von den Vulkanen Kilauea, Colima,
I had the opportunity to sit down with Suzanna Schmeelk to hear about her research concerning Android security. She was good enough to allow me to publish the interview as audio.To learn more about [...]
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For those not so familiar with the Earth sciences, geosciences and all its subdisciplines might be shrouded in mystery: boring, unfathomable, out of reach and with little relevance to everyday life. Nothing [...]
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Iceland does basalt really, really well. But there are a few non-basaltic igneous rocks to be found there, too. One of them is a green ignimbrite (pyroclastic conglomerate) that crops out in coastal [...]
This is a really bad path. Normally these come straight in and then die. We're going to see a lot of boats piled
Running this website over the past few years has bee a lot of work, since the activity in Iceland in 2011 has been higher than anyone expected. This means that I spend a lot of time watching and … [...]
Yes, it's still going. The third annual TetZooCon was held on October 1, 2016 in the same venue as before, the WWT London Wetland Centre, and you know Natee (Niroot) and I wouldn't have missed it for anything. [...]
Heute war ich bei einem Vortrag von Peter Klupar, dem Chief Engineer bei Breakthrough Initiatives, einem privat finanzierten SETI-Forschungsprogramm. Hauptthema des Vortrags war deren Projekt Starshot. Ich [...]
NEXT WEEKS EVENTS10th to 16th October 2016The following is an extract from Bristol Geology CalendarMore details can be found in the Calendar and on the web sites of the relevant Society or [...]
With the approval of the Paris Climate Agreement comes a key question: Do our trade and investment agreements—current and proposed—create the space, send the right signals, and clear the path for the U.S. [...]
Was mache ich hier eigentlich? Bisher hätte ich diese Frage zweifellos mit Erklären beantwortet. Schließlich geht es hier seit gut sechs Jahren um die landwirtschaftliche sowie zoologische Tierhaltung. Der [...]
A lake data buoy recently launched on Lake Champlain by State University of New York scientists is aiding research, education and weather forecasting.
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Earlier this week a major landslide, caught on video, blocked the Southern Cross Island Highway at Liukou Hot Spring in
Here goes Katla volcano again. Earthquake activity in Katla volcano has been slowly increasing today (06-October-2016). It is not yet at the levels as it was week ago, but as Katla showed last week this change [...]
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Matthew is gaining strength again tonight, and Florida and South Carolina are still going to see a significant (perhaps severe) storm. If the eye stays out to sea, it will not be as bad as it could be, but if [...]
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The Haunt of the HippoThe Museum of Somerset is holding a talk by Professor Danielle Schreve of Royal Holloway College, University of London. The title is "The Haunt of the Hippo" and is about the Ice Age in [...]
Heute war der bis jetzt kälteste Tag unserer Ausgrabung. Von diesem Umstand ließen wir uns aber nicht aufhalten und arbeiteten fleißig an unseren Befunden weiter. Und siehe da, beim weiteren Freikratzen der [...]
This image shows a Strophonella euglypha (Dalman) brachiopod fossil. It was found in the Silurian Period Wenlock
series of Dudley Worcestershire England. Image taken August 2016. The
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Mich plagen immer mal wieder Halsschmerzen. Der Mann empfiehlt mir dann immer den vermuteten Bakterien mit dem Gurgeln von Salzwasser den Gar aus zu machen. Ob es was hilft – man weiß es nicht. Eklig [...]
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Es ist nun schon ein paar Tage her seit dem 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, der vom 18.–22.9. in Leipzig stattfand – hier war mit Umzug und neuem Job an der TU Dortmund … [...]