Die von Herrn Sarrazin angestoßene Debatte dürfte wohl an kaum einem in Deutschland unbemerkt vorbeigegangen sein. Fast jeder fühlte sich berufen, etwas dazu zu sagen, und fast jede Meinung kam dabei auf den Tisch. Sa bedeutet natürlich, dass auch ich als ausgebuffter [...]
Today we built the first street-ready model of the new Em2 flow controller.Months in the making, this open source electronic tool will allow precise control and measurement of water flow in the Emriver Em2.Out of the box it can control flow with up/down buttons, and can run typical [...]
Until Friday, I had not heard the term "hydrophilanthropy" but after just a few minutes of listening to Dave Kreamer describe student and other volunteer efforts around the world, I got it.Dave is professor of hydrology at UN Las Vegas, and the one who coined the term hydrophilanthropy. [...]
Carol Hill and Victor Polyak passed along news that their paper on karst hydrology of the Grand Canyon has been published. They conclude that "The karst hydrology of Grand Canyon may be unique compared to other hypogene cave areas of the world." [right, Figure 13 from the paper: [...]
Article"THIS is the greatest disaster New Zealand has ever seen," Agriculture Minister David Carter told The Australian yesterday.I think the biggest lesson here will be what to do with historic brick buildings on swamps. This might stiffen the resolve to tear them down, or lift them on [...]
Ya lo podes bajar gratis a tu PC desde www.grupopaleo.com.ar/paleoboletin/Contenidos del Boletín:01- Antillothrix bernensis, un nuevo primate fósil de Republica Dominicana02- Recuperan numerosos fósiles de Marsupiales en el Mioceno de Australia.03- Hallan una gran serpiente en el Mioceno de [...]
Vuelvo por estos lares para traeros una buena nueva. El próximo día 24 de septiembre se celebra en Madrid "La noche de los investigadores".Esta noche se celebrar diversas actividades repartidas por todo Madrid con la intención de acercar a los ciudadanos el trabajo de los [...]
"All our bags are packed, were ready to go..."
We are headed back to land now. There is a lightheartedness about the ship as people realize they are almost home to loved ones and things they miss doing or having. We are also coming together as a JR family, as seen in this [...]
A new study published online in Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, concludes that tests conducted by the University of Arizona's Phoenix Mars Lander, show that "soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life."A [...]
It's not possible to describe/The unspeakable power of god/So he on the evening of the 25 August/Terrible has done in this valley to the place of Plurs/Where a part of the mountain was taken down/Just on target of Plurs/(Anonymous, Chiavenna 26 August 1618)The 25 August 1618, after our modern [...]
Quick, think of a place in the world where a transform boundary has formed a seriously big fault line, a place where folks are waiting for the "Big One", a place where a magnitude 7 quake is not considered the "Big One" (and think of how people don't really want to think about [...]
There hasn't been a lot of buzzing in the blogosphere on this taxon, but it was described as a possibly flightless early pterosaur by Bonaparte et al. in the "New Aspects of Mesozoic Biodiversity". I would have expected a taxon so possibly critical to the split of pterosaurs from other [...]
Ci manchi tanto, robusto paraviale insulare... (sigh!)
Vedo con piacere che il meme da me introdotto, chiamato scherzosamente "Dodo-raptor" (relativo all'ipotesi graviportale -ed erbivora- di Balaur), sta facendo proseliti in rete:
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The water level of the Amazon River has dipped to a 40-year low in north-eastern Peru, causing disruption in the transportation of food and
Bizarrely, I am currently sitting in the QANTAS lounge at Sydney Airport waiting for a flight to New Zealand, where the IAEG Congress starts on Monday. The theme of the conference is "Geologically Active"...
So, what do we know about the earthquake so far. The best source of [...]
Antes por que era agosto y ahora por que es el inicio del año laboral, ando algo despistadillo al regreso de las vacaciones y, encima, si le unes a que estoy ultimando el PFC para licenciarme de una vez por todas, se obtiene como resultado que este humilde blog se encuentre exactamente igual que [...]
This is why this is the first blog posting this week: a visit to the oil sands to consult; and a big meeting with a client from the Northwest Territories who is faced with an expensive decision. Along the way, plenty of opportunities to chat and eat with great mining people. I sometimes wonder [...]
Everyday, New York City’s 8 million residents consume over one billion gallons of water; 80,000 gallons a year for your average family. What sort of assurances are provided that the water is safe from the reservoir to the
Activity at Sinabung continues to be a cause for concern as the volcano experienced another set of explosions overnight. Surono, head of the Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation described the current activity: "Constant tremors were felt since yesterday and, [...]
beach #1, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.Ayr beach again. One way in which Scotland is superior to Japan is that when the sun does eventually shine the light quality is never far from "Golden Hour". -- Posted By jules to jules' pics at 9/03/2010 05:54:00
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