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Friday, 12 February 2016
Taking the Classroom into the Field with SEE-U
"It was so much more impactful to see and experience in-person what I had learned about in the classroom. The graphs and formulas we used were more meaningful when we had collected the data ourselves. And it was extremely interesting to learn about the issues facing the specific area that we were livingNon-work hours
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Science in the President’s New Budget Request
My Two Cents
A long time ago, in a museum far, far, away, I was giving an orientation tour of the collections for a newly appointed senior administrator. The head of human resources accompanied us, and at one point he [...]The cutting-edge returns to the Burke Baker Planetarium, where astronauts once trained
Think back to the technology of the late 1980s: corded phones, boom boxes, cathode color TVs. In this era, it’s tough to imagine how anyone achieved the remarkable feat of traveling to space and orbiting [...]Geological Mementos
In the Company of Plants and Rocks [16:40:00]
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Permian; CA,KE,US,,TW
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Paleo Profile: The Dragon Thief
This Jurassic carnivore marks the "dawn of the
Traduciendo sin piedad IV: Alifukas para el aperitivo
Viavenator: hay un nuevo cazador en el camino
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [09:00:00]
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What is the best description of the greenhouse effect?
What exactly is the greenhouse effect? And what does it look like if we view it from a new angle? Of course, we know the answer, and Raymond Pierrehumbert has written an excellent paper about it (Infrared [...]Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A muricid gastropod from the Pliocene of Cyprus
Wooster Geologists [05:01:40]
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Neogene; CY
We return to Cyprus for this week’s fossil. This is a broken shell of the predatory muricid Bolinus brandaris (Linnaeus, 1758) found at the Coral Reef exposure of the Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) on the [...]
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Einstein’s Gravity Waves Are Real
The American Physical Society has a good write up on the gravity wave discovery announced today here. AP Science writer Seth Borenstein has some background as well. The actual published paper is [...]Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made the Earth Habitable
The American Geophysical Union, American Society for Microbiology, and American Academy of Microbiology invite you to attend a lecture: Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made the Earth Habitable Paul [...]Bill to de-license assayers passes Arizona Senate
<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 [...]Hearing scheduled on bill to de-license geologists in Arizona
Bring Out Your Favourite Natural Valentines!
Give me your hearts! What are your favourite photographs of naturally-occurring hearts around our lovely, complex universe? Valentine’s Day is lurking around the corner, so let’s pull together our best [...]Jaw gaping in Spinosaurus hinges on modern birds
markwitton.com blog [13:07:00]
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Cretaceous; GB,PL,,IE
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Geosciences Column: An international effort to understand the hazard risk posed by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:00:06]
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NP,US,CN,JP,GB
Nine months ago the ground in Nepal shook, and it shook hard: on April 25th 2015 the M7.8 Gorkha earthquake struck and was followed by some 250 aftershocks, five of which were greater than M 6.0. The [...]
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First Cores! Fossils, Fossils, Fossils (but very, very small!)
I am beset with dish pan hands from the last two days of turning lumps of grey mud into geologic time. How does that work? Our mud has [...]Leptanea rhomboidalis brachiopod from the Bois d'Arc formation of Oklahoma
Views of the Mahantango [09:01:00]
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Devonian; DE,US
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Why The Discovery of Gravity Waves is BIG News
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [07:27:39]
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Today’s announcement about gravity waves is REALLY big news. Not because it confirmed Einstein, but because we can now detect something we could not before. When we learned to detect radio waves, the [...]
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Minor earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes peninsula
Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [01:04:06]
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Yesterday (11-February-2016) at 08:47 UTC an earthquake swarm started on the Reykjanes peninsula. This has so far been a small earthquake swarm and largest earthquake so far had the magnitude of 2,7 other [...]
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