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Friday, 28 March 2025

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il terremoto del 28 marzo 2025 in Myanmar, la storia della faglia di Sagaing e la geodinamica dell'area 

scienzeedintorni [22:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (29 visits) info
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la sismicità del Myanmar e delle aree limitrofe  Il terremoto M 7.7 del 28 marzo 2025 nei pressi di Mandalay in Myanmar è stato seguito da numerose repliche. Particolarmente importante 12 minuti dopo la scossa principale un evento M 6.4, che avrebbe fatto anche esso parecchi danni di suo. Le notizie sono ancora molto frammentarie a 3 ore dall’evento, ma c’è il rischio che la forte replica abbia dato il colpo di grazia a delle strutture già pesantemente danneggiate e il numero dei [...]

AMYLASE: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT 

ARCHEA [20:59:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (24 visits) info
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The old adage, you are what you eat, might be best amended to you are what you can digest. For all the mammals, you and I included, we need the amylase gene (AMY). It codes for a starch-digesting enzyme needed to break down the vegetation we eat. Humans, dogs and mice have record numbers of the amylase gene. The AMY gene copy number increases in mammal populations where

Say what you really think 

Ontario-geofish [19:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (34 visits) info
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 For some reason, I just had to put this up.  Don't have a clue

Europe to take in all Influencer Science 

Ontario-geofish [15:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (32 visits) info
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 Phew, I was really worried for these people!  I'm glad to report that Europe is taking them in, like Canadian soccer

State of the Oceans - March 28, 2025 

Ontario-geofish [13:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (33 visits) info
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 I have had success forecasting the weather, using a physics approach.  An important part of physics is estimating the uncertainties.  Since they don't do physics, the uncertainties [...]

Polar Vortex big neon sign blinking on and off 

Ontario-geofish [11:22:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (37 visits) info
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 I remember the scene in old movies with a bad hotel room and a big blinking neon sign keeping people awake at night.  Only this time, it is the polar vortex fairies dying on and off.This is [...]

El esqueleto apendicular de Neochelys zamorensis en el 5th Palaeontological Virtual Congress 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [10:16:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (22 visits) info
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Durante la quinta edición del Palaeontological Virtual Congress que ha tenido lugar durante este mes de marzo, se presentó la comunicación titulada: "The appendicular skeleton of Neochelys (Pleurodira; [...]

Duonychus: un nuovo Erlikosaurus, un giovane Segnosaurus... o entrambi? 

Theropoda [07:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (25 visits) info
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Duonychus (Kobayashi et al. 2025)  La recente descrizione del nuovo therizinosauride Duonychus (Kobayashi et al. 2025), caratterizzato dall'avere il terzo dito della mano vestigiale (primo caso di [...]

From Mountain Regions to Island States: U.N. Celebrates First World Glacier Day 

State of the Planet [16:07:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (35 visits) info
U.N. delegates and glaciologists convened to address the profound impacts of accelerating glacial melting, particularly for freshwater resources, mountain communities and small island

Postdoc position on speleothem seismic vulnerability from FEM modeling (2 years), University of Silesia in Katowice 

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Please see the flyer below – Jacek is looking for a postdoc to work on speleothems as seismometers for two

Fusion continues to be hopeless 

Ontario-geofish [11:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (36 visits) info
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 Fusion hype continues to be as 'magical' as polar vortex fairies.  Now, they are trying to inject the fuel into a plasma.  Good luck with that.I laid out the physics a while [...]

M7.7 Shallow Strike-Slip Earthquake Burma 

Ontario-geofish [11:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (32 visits) info
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 Looks like we shall ignore the stupid name the military came up with, and just go with Burma.  This is a classic 'San Andreas-type' slip on a huge straight fault.  It [...]

Extintos (2023) 

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En 2023, la marca de cerveza colombiana Poker lanzó la campaña publicitaria "Extintos", que consistía en una serie de animación para adultos que reunía a cuatro supervivientes de fauna del pasado. El [...]

We've been chewing gum forever 

Ontario-geofish [00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (23 visits) info
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 Much like the warmies, the doomers pick things out of a hat.  The success rate of doomers is zero.  The odds of a real doom being predicted by doomers is zero.  However, [...]
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