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A decision to translocate a group of guanacos across Argentina has raised concerns among scientists and provoked intense scientific and legal
This is great physics. On the mimic, you can't see much. There is no blob with a clear edge, and we have the Pacific intrusion that isn't coming down as a clipper, yet. You just see it on the 'minimum temp' [...]
An earthquake on April 5, 2024, was felt at surprisingly long distances. What does it mean for assessing regional
The SVP 2024 abstract book dropped earlier this week. You can download it here. I’m not on Twitter, but friends inform me that there’s a lot of discussion going on about the Danison et al. abstract on which I’m an author (pp. 164-165 in the [...]
Many friends and colleagues have left X and moved over to a new social media platform. We’re still active on X, but you can now also find us on Bluesky:
At least they aren't catching on fire. There's no big hurry here, because they are charging twice as much for water, if a battery conks out. They expected these batteries to last for 20 years, but they are only [...]
Some, if not many, of my readers will know of Nick Zentner’s immensely popular geology YouTube channel. Nick is a geology instructor at Central Washington University. His YouTube channel presents geology to the general public, on a range of topics [...]
I'm not getting anywhere with basic physics, so I am invoking my favourite reading material - steampunk.These fictional people would understand my concept of weather mechanics. Unfortunately, they don't exist, driven out by oil [...]
We had our nice pocket of warm stagnant air for Toronto, and the Arctic is charged up and ready to go.This is a mucky cold blob, but it is still keeping the hurricanes away. Of interest, is the big heat blob in the west [...]