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Thursday, 06 October 2016

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Another inconvenient death. 

Accidental Remediation [02:15:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (574 visits) info
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

Is California About to Be Destroyed by a Killer Quake? 

Rosetta Stones [14:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (215 visits) info
Find out why you shouldn't panic—but still prepare! -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Miembros africanos del linaje de Erymnochelys en las Jornadas de la SEP 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [11:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (153 visits) info
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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 [...]

Bergbaukultur am Oberrhein 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [18:14:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
     Neues Projekt erhält mehr als 1,8 Millionen Euro aus dem INTERREG-Programm der Europäischen Union Die Anfänge der Industriekultur am Oberrhein: Ein neuer Forschungsverbund zu [...]

Pilgrimage to Pompeii 

GeoSphere [13:29:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
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 [...]

Vulkane Kamtschatkas 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [13:01:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (104 visits) info
News über die Vulkane Kamtschatkas und von den Vulkanen Kilauea, Colima,

Suzanna Schmeelk on her Android security research (audio) 

Mente et Malleo [12:00:19]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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 [...]

Celebrating Earth Science Week! 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [09:00:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
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 [...]

Florida’s Vulnerability Tested as Hurricane Matthew Hugs Coast 

dot Earth [18:27:28]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
Hurricane Matthew will test Floridians' level of "disaster amnesia" given the 11 years that have passed since the state was struck by a major

Oddball Icelandic rocks, part I: A green ignimbrite 

Mountain Beltway [20:28:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
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 [...]

Hurricane Mathew is going to rake the coast as Cat 4 

Ontario-geofish [15:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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This is a really bad path.  Normally these come straight in and then die.  We're going to see a lot of boats piled

Please remember to support my [Iceland geology] work with donations 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [21:50:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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 … [...]

TetZooCon 2016 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [22:05:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (71 visits) info
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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. [...]

Breakthrough Initiatives und Projekt Starshot 

Mente et Malleo [12:00:44]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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 Week 10th to 16th October 2016 

Geology in the West Country [11:13:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
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 [...]

Trade Deals and the Paris Climate Agreement 

State of the Planet [17:41:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (59 visits) info
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. [...]

Auch Wissenschaftsbloggen ist Forschung 

Mente et Malleo [18:20:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (49 visits) info
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 [...]

piggieTurntable 

drip | david’s really interesting pages... [14:36:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (40 visits) info

Lake Data Buoy Tackles Understudied Champlain 

Lake Scientist [15:15:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (126 visits) info
A lake data buoy recently launched on Lake Champlain by State University of New York scientists is aiding research, education and weather forecasting. The post Lake Data Buoy Tackles Understudied Champlain [...]

Liukuo Hot Spring: a major landslide on the Southern Cross Island Highway in Taiwan 

The Landslide Blog [08:46:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (119 visits) info
Earlier this week a major landslide, caught on video, blocked the Southern Cross Island Highway at Liukou Hot Spring in

Katla volcano update at 20:10 UTC 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [22:10:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (103 visits) info
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 [...]

Building a ‘Good’ Anthropocene From the Bottom Up 

dot Earth [06:07:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
Researchers build a data base of hundreds of small urban and rural projects that, together, could form the foundation of a prosperous and sustainable

Did The Euro Model Just Pull Another Forecast Coup? 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [00:37:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (91 visits) info
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 [...]

Hurricane Experts: Earth Institute Resources for Journalists 

State of the Planet [21:22:30]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
With the approach of Hurricane Matthew, here are a few of the many scientists at Columbia University’s Earth Institute who can help journalists cover the

Haunt of the Hippo 

Geology in the West Country [10:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
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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 [...]

In der Kiste fand sich xxxx 

Mente et Malleo [23:01:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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 [...]

Strophonella euglypha Brachiopod Fossil 

Louisville Area Fossils [04:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (72 visits) info
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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 fossil was on display [...]

Sky events for October 2016 

BEYONDbones [14:00:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
1st Quarter October 8, 11:33pm Full October 15, 11:23pm 3rd Quarter October 22, 2:14pm New October 30, 12:38pm   This star map shows the Houston sky at 10 pm CDT on October 1, 9 pm CDT on October 15, [...]

Mit Morpholinos gegen Resistenzen – mal was Neues ohne CRISPR/Cas9 

Mente et Malleo [21:12:31]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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 [...]

Harga Terbaru Samsung Galaxy Z2 

Mineraland Chile [10:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
Spesifikasi lengkap dan juga Harga Samsung Z2 - Samsung Z2 adalah hp berbasiskan OS Tizen v2. 4 yang dikenalkan pertama kalinya pada bln. Agustus 2016. Tidak bisa disangkal, satu diantara aspek terpenting di [...]

Increase in earthquake activity in Katla volcano 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [11:50:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info
Today (6-October-2016) a magnitude 3,2 earthquake took place in Katla volcano. This earthquake had smaller earthquake activity before it happened and after it took place. Currently bad weather in the Katla [...]

Nachlese zum 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie: Thema Hochbegabung 

Mente et Malleo [14:34:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (44 visits) info
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 … [...]
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