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Monday, 27 February 2023
Back in March 2021, the book A Romance in Natural History: The Lives and Works of Amadeus Grabau and Mary Antin was acquired from Amazon.com. It was hoped that it would help with my research on Elvira Wood (1865-1928). While she is not mentioned in it, a fascinating story about the two people [...]
As written in Mastodon.#physics #weather Extreme cold is climate change It all makes sense to the influencers. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/asia/east-asia-cold-snap-climate-japan-korea-china-climate-intl-hnk/index.html“we can consider this extreme weather – extremely hot weather in [...]
Natural dyes are dyes or colourants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources — roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood — and other biological sources such as fungi and lichens.
Archaeologists have found evidence of [...]
We are looking forward to celebrating another excellent exhibition of soil science at this year’s EGU General Assembly. Of course, very little soils research could take place without the work carried out by technicians, laboratory assistants, and research support staff. This monthly blog post is [...]
Especialista en manga de artes marciales (Street Fighter, Karate Little Prince), Yasushi Baba lleva en activo desde mediados de los 90. En julio de 2018 publicó en la revista mensual Shonen Sirius (Kodansha, 2005) la primera entrega de ライドンキング [Raidon kingu], esto es, “The [...]
Dirigida por el prolífico Zhao Cong (nueve películas en su haber durante los últimos cinco años, entre ellas "Monster Hospital" o "Revenge Girl"), "Fuhuo zhu luo ji", traducida como "Jurassic Revival", fue la gran apuesta china en 2022 para hacer frente a "Jurassic World: Dominion" en lo [...]
Atención, seguidores del paleoarte: un nuevo artista aparecido en redes ha hecho saltar nuestros radares. Se trata de Wenyu Ren, animador indie y paleoartista de Pekín (China). Apenas acaba de unirse a Twitter en este mes de diciembre y sin embargo ya nos está deleitando con muchas de sus [...]
Arnaud Plumeri (izquierda) y Bloz (derecha)
Seguramente, muchos conocéis ya el fundamental cómic divulgativo francés Les dinosaures en bande desinée (2010). En Koprolitos te lo presentamos cuando aún estaba caliente en las librerías, como recordarás. Sin embargo, la edición española ha [...]
Ha, this is not a 'breakthrough'. They've been slogging away for a long time, and finally get a little surplus heat. Of course, they are putting in very high-grade energy, and getting out a luke-warm bathtub, but that's for another day.I wrote my series on fusion, knowing that this was coming [...]
I think the only way that the Juicer could make things cheap enough for the influencers to buy, was to use slave labour in China. This will come back to bite the apple. I never liked them anyway, so I put up this lurid headline. However, I really, really, want to buy a cheap drone from [...]
Natural dyes are dyes or colourants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources — roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood — and other biological sources such as fungi and lichens.
Archaeologists have found evidence of [...]
It’s early November – time for the latest paper roundup. This time there are many earthquake studies from China and California. New Zealand and Australia got some good coverage, too, but there’s also news from Central Europe. Plus, burglargrams! Enjoy reading. Tsai, C. H., Abdrakhmatov, K., [...]
En la entrada de hoy te vamos a presentar el episodio de Turok “The Honker with Two Feet” (Paul S. Newman/Alberto Giolitti, 1977), un curioso caso de anticipación de un cómic en el que aparece un dinosaurio con plumas, aunque no es el primero, como ya te hemos comentado por aquí.
"The [...]
This week a book arrived call the Geology and Palaeontology of Eighteen Mile Creek and the Lake Shore Sections of Erie County, New York - A Hand-book for the Use of Students and Amateurs by Amadeus W. Grabau Fellow in Palaeontology, Harvard University; Late Instructor in Palaeontology in the [...]
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 [...]
Have we Got to the Bottom of this Mystery?
A correspondent sent me the link to THIS ARTICLE on the BBC website. It is based on THIS ACADEMIC PAPER, two of whose authors are at Bristol University.
Saccorhytus coronarius has been known for some time but has proved difficult to place in a family. It [...]
Twenty five years ago, Carter Johnson and Dennis Knight were fishing together in eastern South Dakota, where both were born and raised. Both were professors of ecology—Johnson at South Dakota State University, Knight at the University of Wyoming. Between catching fish, they asked themselves why [...]
This is my own beef against Aliexpress. I have ordered many things over the years, and it has all been good. Then I ordered another drone, and it was defective. Problem is that you can only do something for 30 days, and it took me a while to find out everything that was wrong.They won't do [...]
Un nuevo estudio indicaría que los asiáticos que se
lanzaron a cruzar hacia América serían originarios del sudoeste de China. Se
trata del análisis de ADN de unos restos humanos, de hace 14.000 años, que
tiene vínculos con el ADN de los pueblos originarios de América.
El Poblamiento
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El 14 de abril de 1931 se proclama la II República Española, el primer régimen democrático del país desde la breve experiencia de 1873-1874, durante el que la libertad de prensa y el impulso de la educación favorecerá la divulgación científica –y en particular, a nuestros efectos, [...]