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Wednesday, 03 June 2020

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Once again, cold air battles warm

Ontario-geofish [23:52:00]

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Wow, this is going to be our summer. Warm air up, cold air down. One day we have a heat wave, and tons of warmie articles, and the next we freeze, with the warmie press silent. I have been chastised that I'm not doing much. But I enjoy the warm days at the cottage, and build a fire in the evening. The last 20 years we never had a fire to keep warm, and now I'm using up all the

‘2040’

Real Climate [18:17:41]

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After an absurd period with a real-life gloomy corona pandemic, lock-down and unrest, it was quite refreshing to see visions for a sustainable future in a new documentary ‘2040‘ (link to trailer). Its message, through the voice of Damon Gameau, is about hope and is based on rational thinking. The video takes us to twenty

June Star Blog

BEYONDbones [17:34:20]

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Mercury continues an excellent apparition for the first half of June. Look for it low in the sky at dusk, over the point of sunset. Mercury is highest June 4-5, then gets lower and dimmer until it is lost [...]

C19 Update with Georgia

Seismos [16:24:00]

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Paper out this week on Physics Today predicting the US state of Georgia C19 death count going forward based on Complience with re-opening directives (mask, social distancing, etc). So our guest region [...]

Postgraduate Diploma in ‘The Geology of Northern England’

Geology in the West Country [11:47:00]

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Postgraduate Diploma in ‘The Geology of Northern England’ From various sources has come the following intelligence:- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Postgraduate Diploma in ‘The Geology of Northern [...]

Craniops hamiltoniae brachiopod from the Moscow formation

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]

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I have a couple of tiny, oval shaped fossils from Deep Springs Rd. that confused me until I looked at them a little closer and then referred to Karl Wilson's book "Field Guide to the Devonian Fossils of New [...]

Unforced variations: Jun 2020

Real Climate [02:21:27]

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This month’s open thread on climate science

BASILEMYS: FRESHWATER TURTLE

ARCHEA [16:34:00]

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In April of 2018, Jordan Mallon and Donald Brinkman described a new species of nanhsiungchelyid turtle, Basilemys morrinensis, from a nearly complete shell from the Horsethief Member, lower Maastrichtian, [...]

Snowball Earth and the GOE

Geology in the West Country [12:42:00]

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What Caused the First Snowball Earth? THIS ARTICLE discusses the effects of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Did it occur before or after the first snowball earth? We know both occurred about 2.4 billion [...]

Viajando al pasado con Jordan Bradley

Koprolitos [10:31:00]

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Jordan J. Bradley (o Taluns, en sus redes sociales) es una artista 2D de Irlanda del Norte. Es aficionada al paleoarte, y trabaja en el mundo del videojuego indie. Es posible que os suenen las ilustraciones [...]

Venericardia planicosta Pelecypod Fossil

Louisville Area Fossils [08:11:00]