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Saturday, 22 February 2025
If you are a tyrant, you kill anybody smarter than you. This eventually destroys the economy. China is now trying to revive the people they've hit on the head too many times.The mad kings are firing and re-hiring lots of people. It has an effect, since the [...]
What will really wrinkle trumpie's socks is that we turn more to China. "Gee, you don't give us much choice, with your war and all. We can sell them all our natgas and oil."I just bought a little ultrasonic water vapourizer from Aliexpress. They [...]
This image is of a Heteroptera (Latreille, 1810) leaf bug fossil. The insect existed in the early Cretaceous Period. Fossil was
discovered in Liaoning, China. Fossil was on display at the Natural
History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) on August 2024.
This image is of a Heteroptera (Latreille, 1810) true bug fossil. The insect existed in the early Cretaceous Period. Fossil was
discovered in Liaoning, China. Fossil was on display at the Natural
History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) on August 2024.
This image is of an Ephemeropsis trisetalis (Eichwald, 1864) mayfly larva fossil. The animal existed in the early Cretaceous Period. Fossil was
discovered in Liaoning, China. Fossil was on display at the Natural
History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) on August 2024.
They will produce zillions of human robots for factories. They will swamp the world with electric cars, and solar cells.They are just like the brainless warmies - everything is a linear extrapolation of what you see out the door. Life doesn't work like that. [...]
In this month’s paper list there are a lot of studies on the US, Greece, and New Zealand, plus interesting stuff from Russia and China and on tsunamis. But don’t miss the methodological papers, for example on underwater photogrammetry. Happy
El paleoartista chino Zhao Chuang nació en una familia de trabajadores ferroviarios del distrito de Sujiatun en Shenyang (Liaoning) y se obsesionó con los dinosaurios desde muy pequeño. A los 21 años, cuando estaba en el segundo año de carrera, consiguió colocar su retrato del [...]
[Badger] shuffled on in front of them, carrying the light, and they followed him, nudging each other in an anticipating sort of way, down a long, gloomy, and, to tell the truth, decidedly shabby passage, into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like [...]
Zhūluójì Rùqīn (Sun Yu, 2024)
Que los chinos se han lanzado de lleno a producir películas de dinosaurios no es ninguna novedad para los seguidores del blog, aunque el boom del género es bastante reciente. Sin ánimo chauvinista, podría hablarse de cierta influencia española, ya [...]
A new study throws cold water on the long-accepted dogma that exquisitely preserved fossils found in China were the result of cataclysmic volcanic
Si has seguido los juegos de París, posiblemente te hayan llamado la atención los boxeadores con el dorsal de TPE, que han conseguido tres medallas [1]. Los realizadores han aclarado que esas siglas corresponden a un país llamado "China Taipei", pero... ¿cuántas Chinas hay? En realidad sólo [...]
Living and Fossil Ginko bilobaThe gorgeous yellow lobed leaf you see here is from a Maidenhair Tree — Ginko. These lovelies grow slowly but are well worth the effort with their delicate and distinctive lobed leaves of green and yellow. Ginko are Living Fossils native to China. We find [...]
These are the latest papers, including classical paleoseismology and some conceptual/review works. Lots of studies on Türkiye, Greece, and China this time! Enjoy reading and let us know in case we’ve missed something
2024 es el año del dragón 龙, hanzi que utilizamos para formar la palabra 恐龙 "dinosaurio"
Si has llegado hasta aquí de nuevas, te recomendamos que, antes de seguir, accedas al primer módulo de nuestro curso, donde explicábamos que el 汉语 Hànyǔ es un idioma de base monosilábica [...]
Los seres humanos han entretenido sus momentos de ocio con juegos de mesa desde la antigüedad [1]. En torno al siglo X, los árabes introdujeron el ajedrez en Al-Andalus, desde donde se expandió a toda Europa. Y la primera versión conocida del Juego de la Oca fue un regalo de Francisco I a [...]
A large extinct bivalved arthropod, Tuzoia sinesis (Pan, 1957) from Cambrian deposits of the Balang Formation. The Balang outcrops in beautiful Paiwu, northwestern Hunan Province in southern China. The site is intermediate in age between the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna of Yunnan and the Lower [...]
This new study is an international collaboration with colleagues in Sweden, China, Australia and the U.S. We have used Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) to analyse the lead (Pb) isotope compositions in two rocks from the Apollo 14 and 16 … Continue reading →
A legume is a fruit type specific to the pea family. When dry, it splits on two sides to release seeds.
Continuing my journey through the South Dakota sylva, this month I'm following (learning about) our four leguminous trees—members of the Legume or Pea Family (Fabaceae). However I wanted [...]
This lovely little biscuit is a Holectypus sea urchin from 120 million-year-old deposits from the Lagniro Formation of Madagascar.The specimen you see here is in the collections of my beautiful friend Ileana. She and I were blessed to meet in China many years ago and formed an unbreakable bond that [...]