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Thursday, 30 June 2016

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TREND REPORT: Summer Embellishments 

BEYONDbones [2016-06-30 14:00:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info

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Written by Marina Torres, HMNS Visual Manager Summer season is here and we need a reason to update our jewelry box. New designs have arrived just in time. For the simple classic to the carefree spirit we have the finishing … Continue reading

A tribute to Chris Squire 

Cambriangirl - Science! Geology! Writing! [2016-06-27 21:41:16]  recommend  1 recommendations  (200 visits) info
One year since Chris Squire passed away. Not just one of the founding members of Yes, but the only member to stay in the band throughout their entire 60-year run until last year, his own death being the only reason for ever missing a gig. A beautiful and inspirational person who never stopped writing wondrous

What is going on in Bárðarbunga volcano – basic analyse 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [2016-05-26 01:21:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (180 visits) info
This the first analyse article that I’m going to write. It is going to a short one and not written over few days, as is the plan to have them in the future. The reason for this is … Continue reading

Wise Commencement Words: Ignorance is Not A Virtue 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-05-16 01:16:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (234 visits) info

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Some very wise words at the commencement today at Rutgers University, and while I suspect that a large majority of younger folks understand this, it’s worth sharing. “Facts. Evidence. Reason. Logic. An understanding of science.These are good things. These are qualities you want in people making policy. These are qualities you want to continue to cultivate in yourselves as citizens.” “We traditionally have valued those things, but if you were

My Top 10 Favorites Dinosaurs (with Explanations) 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2016-05-09 22:14:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info

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Where do I begin?! I will start from the bottom up. Note that I am cutting out 11-20 to save space. Without further ado, here are my top ten favorites. 10. Acrocanthosaurus atokensis Kicking of our list we have a beautiful 12 meter theropod that stalked North America in the Early Cretaceous. The reason why I like it

Kudos to Jimmy Kimmel For Supporting Reason over Myth 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-05-03 23:51:52]  recommend  recommend this post  (204 visits) info
Warning for semi-strong language, but well worth watching.   An education teaches you how much you do not know. Unfortunately, Mrs. Palin does not seem to have a clue about that. Read this to understand how much heat energy the CO2 is

Peale-ing Back American History: the Life of Charles Willson Peale and his Cabinet of Curiosities 

BEYONDbones [2016-04-30 01:00:41]  recommend  recommend this post  (137 visits) info

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In the first fan girl crush blog about Charles Willson Peale, I talked about how Peale created the first American Museum. Today, I’m talking about the rest of his life. Part of the reason I admire Peale so much is … Continue reading

Too Hot To Handle? 

AGU Meetings [2016-04-29 14:19:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (231 visits) info
There’s a reason why people are hesitant to walk over burning coals. Barring those who have congenital analgesia, everyone can feel heat, and unless you live above the Arctic Circle like me, it is not a feeling we often relish. In fact, heat sensitivity can invoke serious fear and has fueled mankind’s most sadistic tortures and punishments. Nonetheless, it is vital for survival. Because we can sense heat, we can avoid it and prevent harming our

Properly Communicating a Forecast Is Just As Important as Accuracy 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-04-28 00:14:42]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info

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The Storm Prediction Center’s outlook for severe weather verified fairly well yesterday. There were not that many tornadoes and the reason for this was likely that the wind shear was not that favorable in spite of an extremely unstable airmass. Still, the graphic above shows where the reports of wind damage, hail, and tornadoes were, and it matches well with the forecast outlook. The storms forecasted for New Jersey developed,

windows 

James’ Empty Blog [2016-03-04 09:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info

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Spent the week in the cat room. It has been quite exciting, especially on Tuesday afternoon, when, through the miracle of Skype, we were transported to a meeting room in Reading University to discuss paleoclimate research with some colleagues. Hope they enjoyed the occasional cat appearance.  The reason for our retreat is windows, or rather, the hole created when a window is removed.

Leap years: proof that Earth is always running late 

BEYONDbones [2016-02-24 23:27:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (671 visits) info
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware 2016 is a leap year. February will have 29 days as part of a four-year mathematical cycle that has been observed in the Gregorian calendar since 1582. The reason we … Continue reading

There's a Reason California is a Nice Place to Live, Drought and All 

Geotripper [2016-02-22 09:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (706 visits) info

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This post is directed (gently) at those who like to disparage those of us who choose to live in California, that dystopian socialistic state on the West Coast of North American continent. There are problems here like anywhere else, but there are moments of pure magic too. Those moments last days sometimes, even weeks or months. Take winter for instance. According to the calendar, it's

drying boots 

Accidental Remediation [2016-01-16 00:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (659 visits) info
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When you do fieldwork regularly, chances are you will end up with wet boots. It seems like everybody has their own method for dealing with wet boots, but here are a few: 1. Hairdryer: most hotels have them, right? 2. Crank up the heat in your vehicle and hope for the best. 3. Find a reason to stand in or otherwise maneuver your feet into the exhaust stream of the largest piece of

In Antarctica, melting ice drives unusual phytoplankton growth 

AGU Meetings [2015-12-29 21:00:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info

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In most of the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton – the base of the marine food web – grow poorly because they’re starved for iron. But in the Amundsen Sea on the west coast of Antarctica, phytoplankton abound in summer. A new study now shows the reason behind the sea’s startling productivity: meltwater from an abutting ice shelf flows into the sea, buoys iron to the surface and jumpstarts phytoplankton

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A tabulate coral from the Upper Ordovician of southern Ohio 

Wooster Geologists [2015-12-18 05:10:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (250 visits) info

 Ordovician; US
We have here another fossil collected by a Wooster student on the August 2015 College of Wooster Invertebrate Paleontology field trip to Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio. Eduardo Luna picked up this specimen of the tabulate coral Calapoecia huronensis (Billings, 1865) from the Waynesville Formation (Upper Ordovician). For some reason in all my years of working

What's up with dead starfish washed up on beaches? 

Echinoblog [2015-12-09 19:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (171 visits) info

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Asterias forbesi from South Carolina via http://wbtw.com/2015/02/10/1000s-of-starfish-wash-ashore-on-sc-island/ So, for whatever reason, I've been noticing an uptick in the number of reports (and questions from the public) about moribund or otherwise dead starfishes (aka sea stars) being washed up on beaches en masse.  For example, this account of Pentaceraster sp. from

As I was saying.... 

James’ Empty Blog [2015-12-09 11:32:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (169 visits) info

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So someone asked Andrew Gelman about Nic Lewis' work on climate sensitivity. And he replied: “Despite what the Wikipedia entry says, there’s no objective prior or subjective prior, nor is there any reason to think the Jeffreys prior is a good idea in any particular example. A prior distribution, like a data distribution, is a model of the world. It encodes information and must be

Trivial pursuits 

James’ Empty Blog [2015-12-02 14:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (177 visits) info

 IE
So for some reason I got invited to participate in the latest Bray and von Storch survey of climate scientists, having not (IIRC) been asked previously. I barely got started on the meat of it before giving up. Screeds of hopelessly vague multi-choice questions with no context, like: how well do you think climate models can deal with clouds (answer from "very adequate" to "very inadequate").

Why Prometheus failed to ask the big questions it pretended to ask... 

Raptor's Nest [2015-11-26 00:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info
I suppose it's rather late to be commenting on a film from 2012, but I just recently came up with a reason why I didn't like the film Prometheus. Or at least one reason...When Prometheus came out, all the critics and many fans on the internet praised how the film asked big questions. I never got that. To me Prometheus didn't ask big questions, it only pretended to do so.For instance, it is made pretty blatant in the film that characters in Prometheus are asking about where we come from. [...]

You Say it's Winter Already? Fall Has Just Arrived in California! 

Geotripper [2015-11-23 05:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (205 visits) info

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Some people say they could never live in California. The earthquakes are scary and the state will fall into the sea. The politics are too crazy. It's an urban hell. Californians are too flaky. Pick you reason. But there are things that are undeniably nice about California. Our fall season is one of them. Oh, it's true that my fair state can hardly compete with the extravaganza of
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