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I recently updated the blog look by switching to the Oxygen WP theme. This is a very good looking theme and I am thrilled by the results. I made a
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2012-12-19 14:00:46]
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Buried beneath the soils of Burma lies a mystery that has been almost 70 years in the making: were a shipment of Spitfire aircraft concealed beneath a British airbase at the end of the Second World War? Dr Adam Booth, a geophysicist at Imperial [...]
THE QUEEN JAMES BIBLE – Sadly, I am not kidding. The Queen James Bible is a Bible for Gays, re-”translated” to make “homophobic” interpretations impossible. Read more about it at First Things. HT: Internet Monk. [...]
This week’s fossil is from close to home. In fact, it sit in my office. The above is a trace fossil named Petroxestes pera. It was produced on a carbonate hardground by a mytilacean bivalve known as Modiolopsis (shown below). Apparently the [...]
Today was a sad day. The MET opera, watched live in a quiet and safe place, Coquitlam east of Vancouver, BC, was Aida. Yet the national tragedy of the twenty-eight deaths in Connecticut overshadowed the tragedy of the opera. We reveled, happy [...]
There is a big difference between “energy independence” and “energy security”. While “independence” has been the long time goal of the United States, “security” is much more important to
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck north of Chichester, West Sussex at 23:03:03.4 on December 14, 2012. Above is the record from Keele’s seismometer. More details from the
The four pillars of the economy of British Columbia are forestry, fishing, farming, and mining. At least according to the paintings in the hall of the BC government building that we visited on Wednesday. With very old friends from South Africa [...]
Last week, Erik drew my attention to this odd spiny lava dome spotted on New Zealand’s White Island. It is rather strikingly weird, like the country that brought us the Lord of the Rings had decided to now bring us … Continue reading [...]
Sorry for the delay, but I was too busy having fun at the AGU to blog about it. For some reason, we had no real jet lag at all on our trip, either while over there or following our return to Japan. I don't really have much of a clue why it sometimes [...]