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I was delighted (but envious) when my friend Patricia brought me back a sample of sand from her recent visit to Bhutan. The sand came from one of the country’s most sacred places (and its old capital), Punakha, at
As I have noted on here before, the Japanese really do love their toy dinosaurs and produce really high quality models on a regular basis and of all kinds of obscure and wonderful critters. So when a couple of weeks back I got a cryptic e-mail from [...]
Hola! Les cuento que me han publicado un libro para todo público sobre evolución humana. Para los interesados, pueden conseguirlo en librerías, si es que son de Argentina, sino en librerías online. Se llama Modelo para armar. La evolución [...]
Fica aqui a listagem de Formações para o Outono de 2012, a desenvolver pela ALT-SHN, e que irão decorrer na nossa biblioteca:Iniciação aos SIG com Quantum GIS26, 27 e 28 de SetembroO curso é direccionado a quem queira aprender a utilizar QGIS [...]
The picturesque Greek island of Santorini is experiencing heightened seismicity, and magma chamber inflation according to an article on Live Science. The island has inflated by up to 14,000,000 cubic meters of magma, and deformation of the [...]
Scientists are close to restoring the extinct passenger pigeon and along with it her native
Over the past two years natural gas drillers have targeted wet gas regions where ethane and propane can be separated from the natural gas. These products sold for attractive prices. Now there is a glut of wet gas products and their prices have [...]
I’m back from the Geological Society of America Field Forum in the Sierras and it looks like I have a lot of catching up to do. I’ll have a post later this week with some highlights from the forum along with some attempts to dispel some [...]
This week’s fossil is a tiny little crinoid with an odd shape. Calceocrinus balticensis (shown above with the scale bar as one millimeter) is a new species from the Lower Silurian (Llandovery) of Hiiumaa, western Estonia. It is part of a [...]
Een geglobaliseerde wereld zal meer en meer moeten rekening houden met georisico’s, zoals aardbevingen,orkanen, vulkaanuitbarstingen, overstromingen of tsunami’s. Als we de
maatschappij willen wapenen tegen de ongewenste en vaak [...]