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A Happy New Year to all of my reader.We seem to be turning Japanese (not really, fortunately). Last night, we went to the beach to see the last sunset, then just before midnight wandered along to our local temple and joined the rapidly growing queue [...]
Deep time, geologic time, and the geologic time scale are intertwined concepts relating to the age of the earth, the long epochs, periods, eras, and eons of earth time, a time that is so long compared to our ordinary, everyday time, or even to [...]
It is the eve of the New Year and multitudes of people from across the planet await with an unfathomable anxiety and excitement for the upcoming year. For many, the new year marks a new beginning, for others it marks another lap in this track called [...]
It seems redundant to comment on mining 2010 as the year draws to a close. Afterall I have posted about 300 comments this past year and have received public and private comments on my postings–the comments have been both complimentary and [...]
And more importantly as Andy has already noted, the PPC is now over. How did you do? Got all those extra papers and pages done in time? We’ll be rounding it up soon. Meantime, enjoy
Rome is not the only place having seven hills. The easternmost land location in the United States is an island with seven hills, and that is actually what the name of the island means. It is called Semisopochnoi, from Russian: [...]
Happy New Year, everyone! I just stumbled across the website for the Seattle Solstice stone sculpture company. These are the folks who made the wonderful “Levitating Sphere” sculpture in front of Kulshan Hall at Whatcom Community [...]
The journal Cretaceous Research published an "accepted manuscript" by Nick Longrich in which he suggests that the McLargeHuge Pentaceratops specimen shown above (OMNH 10165) actually belongs to a separate genus, Titanoceratops, and that [...]
Hey, kids, it's almost 2011. You know what that means, don'tcha? NEW BONEYARD! The last episode was hosted over at David Bressan's History of Geology, and if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. After you're done, may I suggest writing up a [...]