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Sunday, 05 July 2015

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Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: A Compilation of Fear(somely cool geology) 

Geotripper [07:19:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (755 visits) info
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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

Born This Day: Ernst Mayr 

Palaeoblog [12:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (725 visits) info
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 DE,US
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

A Cladistic and Disparity Analysis of the Jurassic Park Franchise 

Theropoda [16:08:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (709 visits) info
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 Jurassic; US
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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 [...]

The Petrified Forest 

Palaeoblog [15:30:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (670 visits) info
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Read it

Frank Bruni’s Piece in the New York Times is a MUST Read 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [05:44:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (643 visits) info
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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 [...]

More thoughts on the Joni Mitchell conference 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [21:52:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (627 visits) info
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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 [...]

Macropleura macropleura brachiopod from the Kalkberg formation of New York 

Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (688 visits) info
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 Devonian; DE,US
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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 [...]

Vintage Dinosaur Art: The Lost World (Ladybird) 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [16:45:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (651 visits) info
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 Jurassic; GB,
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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, [...]

New Horizon Probe Has Anomaly- Switches to back-up Computer 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [06:40:38]  recommend  recommend this post  (636 visits) info
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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 [...]

Iceland - Fire and Ice and Lots of Sunshine 

Earthly Musings [22:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (175 visits) info
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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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