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Friday, 27 July 2012
Weekend Mining Roundup: 63 Highways to Health and Words
The weekend looms, so here is a roundup of the items I have saved for bogging about and that I know I will never get to unless I summarize now: From Mining iQ on Fly-in, Fly-out camps: Other common issues include the lure of alcohol and never ending food. The wet mess is often locatedDissertation – Project Management
What is a dissertation? Reading, research, writing, collecting data? Not only that, a further point seems particularly important. And the longer I work on my dissertation, so it seems to me absolutely necessary: The organization and management. Most of all …Read moreSciurumimus y Bellubrunnus
DinoAstur. Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios [21:18:16]
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Dos nuevos taxones de arcosaurio procedentes del Jurásico Superior de Alemania han visto la luz este mes: el dinosaurio terópodo Sciurumimus y el pterosaurio Bellubrunnus. Arriba: aspecto en vida de [...]
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Increasing my reach
So my little talk Tuesday night went well. A great crowd of science savvy people showed up including at least one biology lecturer and biology teacher and a variety of others. I was pleased with things and all [...]خوارزميات جوجليون
وضعنا أسس العلم ثم تقدم الأخرون! بخوارزميات العالم المسلم الخوارزمي إستطاعا المؤسسان لشركة جوجل وليس «غوغل أو [...]Educator How-to: Teach archaeology with edible excavation
It’s time, once again, for our monthly Educator How-To! Today we’ll help you teach kids to keep track of what they find — just like an archaeologist does. Archaeologists keep careful records, as do all [...]Armor for Sauropods
Will we ever find out what Augustinia lookedGeological Olympics
Anyone can make a list of Olympic-style events for geologists (rock breaking, hammer throw, cross-country hiking, vehicle pull, etc.). Earth magazine's Timothy Oleson has done something cleverer and more [...]Field Work Tips
A hungrier world- blame it on climate change.
The impact of global warming on agriculture is going to be worse.ByDr. Nitish PriyadarshiOn the day you read this, the population of our planet will increase by 230,000 people. Hungry people.In 2012 about 140 [...]Terjadinya banjir Padang saat buka puasa – Kenali topografinya
Banjir bandang yang melanda Padang pada sore hari menjelang buka puasa pada Hari Selasa, 24 July 2012 tentusaja mengagetkan. “pakde, semua bencana ya selalu mengagetkan. Wong ga pakai rencana” [...]Más ornitópodos de Morella en el X Congreso Anual de la EAVP
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [12:24:00]
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Beginnings: Where will you begin?
Thursday 26th July saw the launch of SciLogs.com, a new English language science blog network. SciLogs.com, the brand-new home for Nature Network bloggers, forms part of the SciLogs international collection of [...]Dentes de terópodes (alguns deles enormes) portugueses no X Congresso Anual da EAVP
ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL [09:48:00]
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Day 3 a journey above!
It’s 6am and I wake up ready for the day to begin, I get my gear packed. I head out to Cabella’s to pick up a new gps unit and some extra batteries, end up buying a couple new tools as [...]El Caudillo del Son - Los mismos dinosaurios pero mas bonitos
Bringing the wonder to you: Science on Stage
We’ve got permanent exhibit halls, special exhibitions and an entire basement full of classrooms for camp and education. But did you know that we can bring HMNS to you? HMNS outreach programs — which [...]The amazing vanishing garden
An interesting retrogressive landslide causing coastal erosion on Whidbey Island,Argentina Oil and Gas Report
“Argentina is South America’s largest natural gas producer and a significant producer of oil. However, the heavily regulated energy sector includes policies that limit the industry’s [...]Northwest Geology update.
Dear friends, No, I haven’t fallen off the edge of the Earth. It has been a long time since I’ve had geology trips to pass along. But, now I have a couple of items for you. First off, the Quimper [...]For Tomorrow’s Leaders, a Tool Box for a Complex World
How are the global leaders of tomorrow going to secure renewable sources of energy, solve the problems of water scarcity, and maintain our standard of living - all while improving health, ending poverty, and [...]The 1st Geolympiad
In Myanmar, Searching for the Roots of Peace
An understanding of the issues that influence conflict in Myanmar is necessary to think about how sustainable peace might be reached. But our research instead focuses on identifying "latent peace capacities" [...]VOLCANO SPOON! But which volcano?
This amazing spoon features an image of a volcano in the spoon. This was found by my brother at an estate sale in California. What a good brother to pick this up for me! I have fallen in love with this spoon [...]Do newspapers have a responsibility to check wire-service stories?
I subscribe to the Arizona Daily Star which often provides blog fodder because of the questionable wire-service stories they use to fill their ever thinning newspaper, see examples below. So I ask, does the [...]Friday fold: Spray Mountain Group siltstone
Today, we return to Banff National Park, to the outcrops next to the parking area for Bow River Falls… Zoomed-in closer to the thinner layers at left: These strata (shale and siltstone) were laid down in [...]What do you think about EGU’s merchandise?
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:30:59]
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This is your chance to offer us feedback on EGU’s merchandise, available from our booth at the General Assembly and several other major conferences. To have your say, take a look at our products on [...]
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Ovos de dinossauros de Espanha: retomando às jazidas clássicas
ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTÓRIA NATURAL [13:12:00]
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Jordi fue al mercado siguiendo a Charles y George
Paleobiologia del Neogen Mediterrani [12:33:56]
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non-standard geology?
I've done a lot of different things in my career - I've sat drill rigs, collected samples using every media and method imaginable, written reports, analyzed stuff, made complicated cross-sections with a stack [...]What’s up? The Friday links (40)
On 11 April 2012, a Mw8.6 strike-slip earthquake occurred off Sumatra in a kind of intra-plate setting and came as a surprise to the earthquake community. Such a strong strike-slip event was not expected, we [...]A Break from the Drought, Sort of...Flowers on the Colorado Plateau
Edriocrinus from the Licking Creek formation of Virginia
Jumping from 18 Miles Up
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a balloon at an altitude of over 18 miles, freefalling for nearly four minutes and reaching speeds of over 500 miles perEPA Report on Dimock Water
EPA has tested drinking water from Dimock, Pennsylvania and reports that it is safe to drink. There has been a long dispute about contamination of Dimock area water by hydraulicNo Premium for Appalachian Natural Gas
Spreads between Appalachian Index natural gas in southwest Pennsylvania — and the Henry Hub in the Gulf Coast are changing due mainly to growth in Marcellus production. Appalachian Index gas has historically [...]Thoughts on Mining Placemaking, Arizona Mining, and Rosemont Copper
I have just added another blog to my blogroll–see list to the right of the page for Strings, Connections, Links. It is not a blog about mining per se. But many of the postings are of interest to the [...]Top concepts:
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