ArticleDevelopers built on land that could turn into murky soup after an earthquake, despite legal opposition from the local council, says the Mayor of Christchurch.I am rolling in jollies making fun of New Zealand! That's because I know those sweethearts wouldn't order a death sentence! Ok, this [...]
Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because who can't use a little trivia while you're not doing work. And I am taking a breather for the week.- Fun Wth Dinosaurs -In 1902 in Montana, paleontologist Barnum Brown unearthed the first specimen of this dinosaur [...]
The American Clean Energy Resources Trust (ACERT) is promoting the "multiple benefits of clean, affordable nuclear energy and the consequent need for continued domestic uranium exploration, mining and processing." [right, unnamed reclaimed uranium mine site from the ACERT site]The [...]
Day 4 (Th Sept 9): I started this morning with a 5:00 am starry run along the adjoining pier - my last chance for land legs before we set sail.
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The AZ Dept. of Water Resources new Water Development Commission is intended to address the state's "abandonment of rural Arizona, when it comes to unmet water demand" says Verde Independent writer Steve Ayers in a story published today.Steve writes that the newly formed commission [...]
The UA-run Phoenix Mars Lander found evidence that the isotopic composition of atmospheric carbon dioxide is "pointing to an atmosphere rejuvenated by volcanic outpourings, possibly up to the very recent geologic past..." and "the atmosphere may have been chemically interacting with [...]
Giant rats are being trained to located land mines. In 2008 and 2009 the rats cleared over a million square meters of minefield and found about 400
Sept. 9, 1823 - April 30, 1891 From The Academy of Natural Sciences:Leidy is known as the "Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology". He described the first relatively complete dinosaur skeleton, Hadrosaurus, and introduced many American and European scientists to the fossil riches of [...]
Serpentine is actually a mineral group rather than a single species, but they're all green. Not much of it is found on land, ...Read Full
Wie verpackt Wissenschaftsthemen in einer Comedy-Show? Wie baut man den perfekten Wissenschaftsbeitrag fürs TV? Und wie bindet man Grafiken in einem Fernsehbeitrag ein? Um diese und andere Fragen geht es in dem nächsten Weiterbildungsseminar der Initiative Wissenschaftsjournalismus. Das Seminar [...]
Infos zum Furchenstein, zum Krustenstein, dem Hirnstoa und Onkoiden am Bayrischen Meer [2010-09-08 14:23:08]
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Die Zone der Furchensteine/Krustensteine/Hirnstoaner im Litoral des Chiemsee.
Area of "Furchensteine/Krustensteine/Hirnstonaer" (limestone with structured surface) in the litoral of lake
Breve post che informa gli interessati su alcuni test effettuati con Megamatrice sulla plausibilità di ipotesi "eterodosse". Gli spunti derivano da Ville Sinkkonen e Mickey Mortimer.
Ricordate "Magnoviraptorosauria"? Bene, l'ipotesi colà definita risultò statisticamente improbabile. Tuttavia, [...]
El amigo aqui ilustrado es uno de mis marginocéfalos favoritos: Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis. Si, he dicho "marginocéfalo". Este término es quizás poco conocido por el público en general. Todos hemos oído hablar alguna vez de "ceratopsios", los dinosaurios con cuernos y [...]
Day 2 has been filled with safety demos and scientific presentations. I was reminded not to horseplay, how to read an MSDS, and how to wear a "gumby suit" which is a very warm floatable suit that will help me survive if the boat sinks! The lead scientist led us [...]
Detail of an island from the Latvian Reef, with coral by Dagnija Griezne. Photo by the IFF. From the Hyperoblic Reef Website.One of the great things about being "the starfish guy" is that people come to you with starfish questions that they don't think anyone else can answer. For the [...]
ArticleMount Sinabung's first eruption last week caught many scientists off guard. With more than 129 active volcanoes to watch in this vast archipelago, local vulcanologists had failed to monitor the long-quiet mountain for rising magma, slight uplifts in land and other signs of seismic [...]
Un pequeño extracto de "We're back! A Dinosaur's story" ("Rex, un dinosaurio en Nueva York"), película de 1993 producida por Steven Spielberg. Si, del mismo año que Jurassic Park: pretendía ser una película para niños, mientras que JP estaba destinada a un público más [...]
A new article in the Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science by a team of Arizona geologists including AZGS's Brian Gootee, has documented the existence of an "older, higher terrace" that supports the idea that "the lower Salt River originated by lake overflow from an [...]
In Italia è proprio cattiva scienza.Ritorno, molto controvoglia, sull'argomento degli allarmi sismici, quando ci sarebbe da dire cose molto più interessanti. Nel post precedente, pubblicato solo giovedì scorso, al riguardo avevo scritto: Non dico di silenziare o censurare le notizie, ma [...]
Well here it is, a gallery like none before it here on ART Evolved. The Pop Culture Gallery. Where Prehistory meets fiction, and nothing but awesomeness follows.Just stay out of the long grass!!!If you have a submission you'd like entered into our tribute to Prehistoric Fiction please send it [...]
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