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Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Slow Landslide Tearing Houses Apart
AccuWeather.com has an article about a subdivision in Lakeport, California where a landslide moving at a rate of inches per day is tearing homesCrollo della casa dello studente all'Aquila: ancora una volta la Scienza non è trattata correttamente
Crazy Ants Invade the USA
“Invasive “crazy ants” are displacing fire ants in areas across the southeastern United States. [...] It’s the latest in a history of ant invasions from the southern hemisphere and may prove to [...]Fault Breccia on Slickenside Ridge
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Too garish, I know. Scribbled in ~2 minutes while watchingX-47B Touch and Goes (ok, so...)
De Rivas a Somosaguas, pasando por Valdemoro
Como se enrollaban los trilobites del Cámbrico
The Oklahoma Tornado: Some Facts and Pictures
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [08:36:51]
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First of all, this tornado was not the biggest and strongest tornado ever recorded on Earth, as one Oklahoma City weather-caster said. We don’t know the wind speeds yet, and until then it cannot be given [...]
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Ha muerto un mago
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [08:00:00]
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Pliensbachian–Toarcian Jurassic Extinction Was a Phased Event
Damaging Ice on the Yukon River
Large slabs of ice pushed onto land along the Yukon River have pushed buildings from foundations and a fear of flooding has forcedAncient African Coins and the History of Australia
Five copper coins about 1000 years old found on a beach by an Australian soldier during WWII may be strong evidence that ships from distant lands reached Australia hundreds of years earlier than what is [...]Technical help needed for a script issue
I need some technical help, for the reason that I am not a programmer and I never have. I guess that I never am going to be one, since I lack the talent of doing numerical math (I … Continue reading [...]Biology of an Early Earth: RNA Capable of Catalyzing Electron Transfer With Iron Before Great Oxidation Event
A new study shows how complex biochemical transformations may have been possible under conditions that existed when life began on the early Earth. The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron [...]Time Lapse Video on an Ice Breaker
This video compresses a two month view from the bow of an ice breaker travelling through the Ross Sea of Antarctica into less then five minutes. Watch for the wildlife surprise at theColorless Diamond Price Record
ABC News Australia has an article about the 101 carat colorless diamond that set a new price record by selling for $23.8Neuerscheinung: Grube Büchenberg – eiserner Schatz im Harz
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Zum größten Eisenerzlager des Harzes ist ein erstes umfassendes Sach- und Fotobuch entstanden, das den eisernen Berg in seinen vielfältigen Facetten zeigt: „Grube Büchenberg – eiserner Schatz im [...]
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Puesto de trabajo en la Paleontological Research Institution de Nueva York
Ruta geológica "Cambios en el paisaje a través de las rocas", Día Internacional de los Museos.
Schizophoria schnuri brachiopod from Poland
Ankylosaur!
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This place is going to be Theropod Central for a bit (until the huge volume of ceratopsians kick in), so here’s an ankylosaur to keep things ticking over. As usual, enthralled though I was with the [...]
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T-Rex Skull
Oh, spam
I need to apologize to my commentators. I only realized that I had a spam comment tab recently, and I found a bunch of great comments buried there - some from 2011! About half of the comments flagged as [...]Traffic Jams and Trash on Everest
An article on NationalGeographic.com explains how the popularity of “climbing Everest” has resulted in inexperienced climbers creating traffic jams on the mountain and littering the landscape. Ways [...]Water Risk in Unexpected Places
A new report by the Columbia Water Center, produced in conjunction with Veolia Water and Growing Blue, could help expose the real nature of water risk in urban and rural areas throughout the country--even in [...]"En busca del primer europeo", cine científico en la programación del Día Internacional de los Museos.
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