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Friday, 14 September 2018
Astronaut Shannon Walker Talks About Becomming A Space Explorer And Sheds Some Light On The Future Of Women In Space
This fall, in collaboration with Houston Museum of Natural Science, Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies is offering Women in Space, a course (open to the general public) highlighting women who have played pivotal roles in the U.S. space program as astronauts, engineers, flight controllers, researchers and mentors for the next generation of spaceThe Atterholt and Wedel (2018) SVPCA abstract and talk are now available on PeerJ Preprints
Here’s the story of my fascination with supramedullary airways over the last 20 years, and how Jessie Atterholt and I ended up working on them together, culminating with her talk at SVPCA last week. (Just here for the preprint link? Here you go.) Way back when I was working on my Master’s thesis at theMagnitude 4,2 earthquake in Bárðarbunga volcano
Today (14-September-2018) at 10:40 UTC an magnitude 4,2 earthquake took place in Bárðarbunga volcano. Second largest earthquake in this swarm had a magnitude of 2,9. Other earthquakes that happened were [...]Mummified penguins tell of past and future deadly weather
New research links the mummified remains of penguin chicks in Antarctica to two massive weather-related calamities that could become more commonplace with climate change. The post Mummified penguins tell of [...]NAD 83 vs NAD 27
Hello grind GIS people, again I thought to write on the difference and this time between NAD 83 and NAD 27. I have listed 9 differences between these two. 1. North American Datum 27 (NAD 27) is based [...]Living in a new Age
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If you were suddenly told you were living in a different time period, what would your immediate reaction be? Changes in the calendar – even if it’s just terminology – have proven emotive in the past. In [...]
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In a short space of time, Typhoon Mangkhut, Hurricane Florence and the earthquake in Hokkaido all have the potential to generate large numbers of landslides The post Typhoon Mangkhut, Hurricane Florence and [...]Black Rock Desert Finale
The Tyrannosauroids from the Southern Hemisphere.
Tyrannosauroidea, the superfamily of carnivorous dinosaurs that includes the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex, was mainly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. However, a few specimens from Australia (Timimus [...]Friday fold: Ferruginous sediments in Barberton Mountain Land
A trip back to Archean sedimentary rocks in Barberton, South Africa, reveals a few folds on the roadside... The post Friday fold: Ferruginous sediments in Barberton Mountain Land appeared first on Mountain [...]Island: Erdbeben M 4,1
Auf Island ereignete sich ein mittelstarkes Erdbeben der Magnitude 4,1. Das Hypozentrum lag in 4,5 km Tiefe. Es folgten zahlreiche schwache Vor- und Nachbeben. Der Ort des Geschehens lag beim Vulkan Grímsnes [...]Katla: Hohe Gas-Konzentrationen
Isländische und Britische Wissenschaftler bestätigten abermals, dass sich der Vulkan Katla auf eine Eruption vorbereitet. Sie haben ungewöhnlich hohe Konzentrationen vulkanischer Gase nachgewiesen. [...]Top concepts:
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