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Stagnant air sets up another drought for Toronto

Ontario-geofish [21:23:00]

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Yesterday, they had rain in a week, but that's gone. They really are hopeless at the long-term forecast, but who's going to figure that out? They write their own report cards.It's all just swirling around. And this is all due to clange, in some way, which we'll hear about soon.ps and Happy Alberta. You would think they'd put in a few bucks for physics, but ...

Homo Sapiens Origins

Reporting on a Revolution [18:45:00]

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Did our species evolve from an isolated population of ancient humans in one part of Africa in a relatively quick branching event? Or, was our evolution a continent wide process with many groups of ancient people from different parts of Africa exchanging genes over long periods of time? The time period of interest based on genetics and fossils is from roughly 700,000 years ago to about

Memorial Day, Patriotism, and the Search for American Political Consensus

State of the Planet [14:08:10]

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Political polarization is a trap that is easy to fall into, but many Americans are looking for a sense of unity and leadership that represents our common values and shared sense of

Las criaturas híbridas de Christian Martín Cardeña 'Kiro'

Koprolitos [11:39:00]

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Christian Martín Cardeña (a.k.a. Kiro) es un ilustrador y escultor madrileño con una amplia experiencia en el diseño de logotipos y en la realización de caricaturas y dibujos en literatura infantil. Es [...]

Silurian Coral Growing on Crinoid Stem

Louisville Area Fossils [05:59:00]

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A couple of weekends ago, I was able to attend a field trip to Napoleon, Indiana USA. While there, I found this fossil which appears to be a coral fossil coating a crinoid? stem fossil. It dates to the [...]

Australia starts the Big Freeze

Ontario-geofish [13:11:00]

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I always pondered the question of what happens to Australia when the North has an ice cycle? Although you never hear from them, it turns out that they freeze as well.When the Pacific shuts down, there's no [...]

CARCHARODON MEGALODON CHUBUTENSIS

ARCHEA [09:35:00]

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Carcharocles chubutensis, which roughly translates to the "glorious shark of Chubut," from the ancient Greek is an extinct species of prehistoric mega-toothed sharks in the genus Carcharocles. These [...]