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Thursday, 15 June 2017

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My Favorite Part About Camp! 

BEYONDbones [23:53:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (202 visits) info
Summer is here and our campers have arrived! As the museum buzzes with activity and excitement this week, we have for your viewing pleasure another installment of our “My Favorite Part About Camp…” series. Some of the Education staff started their careers at HMNS as campers in Xplorations Summer Camps; some of us started as

Clean Energy Powered 10% of America in March 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [23:43:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (231 visits) info
Look at this graph. The Energy Information Administration data for March 2017 shows 10% of U.S. power came from wind and solar, a level unimaginable two decades ago. The graph below shows the clean power by state: Now, look at the death of coal: Clean Energy Is Winning The Price Race We are living through a total upheaval in the way the world produces energy, and clean energy is rapidly becoming

Field Photo: Glacial Erratic 

Reporting on a Revolution [19:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info
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Inspired by this xkcd comic: I saw quite a few of these glacial erratics in the Dhauliganga river valley around the villages of Duktu and Dantu. Here is my friend sitting on one of them. This boulder [...]

Walk at the White Horse 

Geology in the West Country [17:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (105 visits) info
Wiltshire Museum - Guided Geology and Landscape Walk Isobel Geddes will be leading a walk around the Westbury White Horse, Bratton Castle & Bratton Church Springs.  A 3.25 mile (2 - 2.5 hour) walk [...]

Coastal features are temporary 

Geology in the West Country [12:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (100 visits) info
Malta's Azure Window has Gone - Whats Next? Earlier this year The "Azure Window" on Gozo, Malta collapsed.  The Azure window before its collapse This article suggests five British coastal feature which [...]

How do retaining walls work? 

SOILS MATTER, GET THE SCOOP! [08:49:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (619 visits) info
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Retaining walls are landscaping tools to help landowners overcome sloped areas. They often have a visual interest, as well as serve a functional purpose. Many homeowners use retaining walls to […]

Forelimb posture in Chilesaurus diegosuarezi. 

Letters from Gondwana [01:18:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (705 visits) info
  Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is a bizarre tetanuran from the Upper Jurassic of southern Chile. Holotype specimen (SNGM-1935) consists of a nearly complete, articulated skeleton, approximately 1.6 m long. Four [...]

Malaria Risk Increases in Ethiopian Highlands as Temperatures Climb 

State of the Planet [17:24:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (178 visits) info
The highlands of Ethiopia are home to the majority of the country’s population, the cooler climate serving as a natural buffer against malaria transmission. New data now show that increasing temperatures [...]

Are we living in a mass extinction? 

Geology in the West Country [13:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (101 visits) info
Is This a Mass Extinction - a Future Palaeontologist would not be able to say! We identify mass previous mass extinctions from the fossil record - largely marine invertebrates, like brachiopods and bivalves. [...]

La rutina de los dinosaurios vista por Usik Choi 

Koprolitos [11:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (164 visits) info
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Hace unos días Francisco Riolobos a.k.a. franxurio nos puso tras la pista del ilustrador coreano Usik Choi. Y para que os vamos a engañar, no hemos encontrado muchas más información que la que [...]

Masaya fieldwork continues... 

Volcano Blog by Tom Pering [06:31:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info
Masaya lava lake captured using thermal imagery. The collapse of a portion of the wall can be seen in the top right. Three days of (hopefully!) successful fieldwork under our belts and already we have managed [...]
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