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"It seemed quite likely that the Stegosaurus and Triceratops wouldn't reach Southampton on time" 

Back in May I paid a visit to Blackgang Chine, a theme park of sorts located on the Isle of Wight (off the south coast of England), and wrote of my exploits with the park's charmingly vintage and hideous dinosaur models.It recently occurred to me that the transportation of Blackgang's dinosaur models, from the factory where they were made in Yorkshire all the way down to Blackgang, was covered by the enduringly uncool children's TV show Blue Peter back in 1972, and that someone must have [...]

Mini maars 

A while back, I wrote about UB's exciting new facility for experimental volcanology, which is part of our Center For Geohazards Studies. The facility itself isn't anything like a big fancy laboratory - it's out in the country and is mainly open space. But that's a perfect setting for making holes in the ground, which (in a very basic sort of way) was the whole point of the most recent test. Volcanologists and engineers from UB, Italy, and New Zealand were all present for this explosive