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Thursday, 24 December 2015
Do you know what I like about flying? I admit that there is much not to like about flying, starting with navigating airports while dragging luggage, standing in security lines, paying $4 for a bottle of water, sitting in airplane seats designed for thin 12-year-olds, and waiting for baggage and rides at crowded airports. On the other hand, when one is at 36,000 feet, at that moment one
Earthly Musings [01:41:00]
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(636 visits) category→recreation GB,FR,PT,NZ,CL,,AR
We are underway for the first of two voyages on The World. Beginning in Ushuaia Argentina (the world's southernmost city) we sailed for 38 hours until we spotted land in Antarctica. This was one of the fastest crossings for me ever - The World's twin screws push us through the sea at an amazing 18 knots. The weather was as good as it gets crossing the Drake Passage and about as bad as it gets in the Antarctic summer once we arrived. See the photo's below.Mt. Oliveira and the city of Ushuaia on [...]
Xmas Eve greetings! Photos are all from Nevada City, CA, although I'm elsewhere at the moment. Above: the Outside Inn.
Inside the Mine Shaft.
Likewise.
Xmas cheer from inside
An episode consisting of three stores: an idea that no one believed, how to start the hole itself, and an expedition of tragedy and discovery.
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Louisville Area Fossils [03:30:00]
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(257 visits) category→science_technology Neogene; IT
Here is a picture of a Cancer sp. crab fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Pliocene Epoch of the Neogene Period.
Image taken in [...]
Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [01:19:04]
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(203 visits) category→recreation US
The image above shows intense rotation caused by a violent tornado near Holly Springs in Miss. this afternoon. Check out the YouTube video of this long track tornado below. December tornadoes happen but a long [...]
Geological Society of London blog [11:00:44]
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With the end of the year almost in sight, we’re rounding off the #geoadvent blog season with a look back at the highlights of our blogging year – featuring mud, salt dough, a last minute Christmas [...]
JOIDES Resolution blogs [00:24:21]
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Now that the core is flowing, the word “recovery” is on the tip of everyone’s tongue. How was the recovery? Did the recovery improve? Man, the [...]
Because I was impressed with Seveneves, I decided to make my next read another novel by Neal Stephenson. There are several highly-praised options to choose from, but the one that came to hand first in the [...]
A dramatic landslide captures the moment in which a landslide struck a road in Ayacucho,
markwitton.com blog [18:48:00]
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(265 visits) category→science_technology Cretaceous,Jurassic; DE,US,GB
Turns out that Triceratops horridus had some of the coolest scales of any dinosaur: huge, interlocking tubercles with low bosses and spikes. No other dinosaur has skin like this - at least, not without [...]
Epic Santa por German MoltoComo uno ya no sabe qué decir en estas fechas tan entrañables, hemos decidido hacer una pequeña recopilación de felicitaciones navideñas que nos han gustado este año. Desde un [...]
Image taken by Jan Mees. From the World Registry of Marine Species
This week, a photoessay and odd little facts about this very strikingly colored/decorated oreasterid starfish, Protoreaster lincki! You can [...]
Louisville Area Fossils [16:11:00]
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(170 visits) category→science_technology Carboniferous; US
If you are viewing this blog I wish you a Merry Christmas. I hope 2016 brings you many good fossil finds.
This year's design features four fossils. They were all found in Grayson County Kentucky USA. Three [...]
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