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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..
Sunday, 05 July 2015
Without a doubt, subduction zones are the most dangerous plate boundaries on the planet. Divergent plate boundaries produce earthquakes and occasional volcanoes, but nothing on the fearsome scale of the calderas and stratovolcanoes and magnitude 9 earthquakes experienced at convergent boundaries. Transform boundaries produce earthquakes, but they are magnitudes smaller than those produced
Any student of biology, or anyone with an interest in the natural world, will be familiar with Ernst Mayr who passed away on February 3rd in Bedford, Mass. Born in Kempton, Germany he joined the American Museum of Natural History as a curator in 1931. In 1953 he left the museum to work at Harvard University where he stayed until his retirement in 1975.
While working on the problem of
Dei film di Jurassic Park si è detto
molto. Molti di coloro che detestano l'idea che questi film siano un
pretesto per parlare di scienza si ripiegano nel mantra acefalo del
“è solo un film”. All'estremo [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [05:44:34]
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I wish I could put words together this well. Frank Bruni’s California,Camelot and Vaccines in the NY Times today is worth the price of a Times subscription by itself. A snapshot below, but [...]
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [21:52:27]
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I wanted to get my initial report on the Joni Mitchell conference out quickly. But since posting it, more thoughts have bubbled up through my mind. I’m thinking here mostly about how a humanities [...]
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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If I may paraphrase the song "New York, New York" by Gerard Kenny, Macropleura is a brachiopod so nice, they named it twice! Macropleura macropleura is a large brachiopod and hard to mistake for something else [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [16:45:00]
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Ladybird books are a firm favourite of mine, since (like many other Brits) I have very fond memories of learning to read with them as a child - not just those bought for me at the time, but also hand-me-downs, [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:40:38]
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Here is an Update from NASA late on Saturday night…. New Horizons Team Responds to Spacecraft Anomaly The New Horizons spacecraft experienced an anomaly the afternoon of July 4 that led to a loss [...]
Earthly Musings [22:52:00]
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After leaving a foggy Svalbard, we headed south towards Iceland. I've been there many times before and have enjoyed the liquid love (rain) more than I care to remember. So it was with great excitement that we [...]
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