CNN has a collection of photos from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand, detailing damage done to various buildings, roads, and
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 [...]
ArticleNobody was out on the street, so nobody got kabonked by the bricks! I guess they roll up the sidewalks at night!
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for September 3rd, 2010: Christchurch earthquake photos Tsunami: at a Science on a Sphere near you GeoNet – Earthquake Resources Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? – Yahoo! News Continental drift: Facts, Discussion [...]
Neave Parker's path to an artistic career almost sounds like an episode of Michael Palin's post-Monty Python's Flying Circus series, Ripping Yarns. The Natural History Museum's page on Parker says that after his father forbade his pursuit of the arts, "he took up employment in a bank but, after [...]
Eruptions reader Raving brought a change in the alert status another Indonesian volcano to our attention. This time, Seulawah Agam on Aceh has been raised to the lowest Alert Status (from no alert) by the Center for Volcanology and Disaster Mitigation due to increased seismicity underneath the [...]
Flickr user Graham, aka Tourist Trap, has shared some photos taken at Wood's Golf Center in Norristown, PA. Their mini golf course is inhabited by some of the coolest statues I've seen in one - the official site says that their "award winning miniature golf courses are themed around 'The Adventures [...]
Tricia Arnold frequently delights me with her illustrations. When I first learned of her stuff last year, I thought it had a timeless quality and a charm that harkened back to the cartoons I grew up watching. Sure enough, she's just wrapped up "Don Bluth Month" at her blog. Makes sense!Here's her [...]
A Calymene clavicula trilobite of the Silurian Period found in Indiana, USA. This picture was taken at Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in August 2010.Part of an amazing collection of trilobites is being displayed in the Hall of Ocean Life in the Museum of Natural History as described at [...]
For those that care, I left the possum head buried underground in a yoghurt container. I 'll be checking in on it in a few weeks from now when I visit family again... photos will definitely follow. :)
Semi-regular blogging schedule should resume after the end of this week, I'll be getting my [...]
It’s a kind of magic.One shaft of lightThat shows the way.~ lyrics from Kind of Magic, a song written by Roger Taylor and performed by QueenGentle Warning: If you thought that the Magic Eye books of the mid-1990s were the work of the devil, you may have a problem with this [...]
A couple of years ago we installed a small “Artists’ Corner” gallery in a corner of the lower level lobby in the Butterfly Center. It opened with an exhibition of moth paintings from art students at SFASU, followed by a collection of monarch butterfly photos from a Houston naturelover, then [...]
Launching Pteranodon by Mark Witton, via Flickr.Welcome news: Mark Witton is writing a book on the pterosaurs. It's going to be released by Princeton University Press next year. Click here for a teaser, immediately. If you read that "immediately," you didn't click fast enough.Here's hoping that [...]
Classes starting today, so I have to be brief:
Unique twin ash plumes from Sinabung in Indonesia, erupting on August 29, 2010.
Sinabung
The Indonesian volcano continues to experience explosions, which one last night (well, last night here in Ohio) that prompted an ash advisory for aircraft up to [...]
There's no denying that Physeter macrocephalus - the Sperm whale or Great sperm whale - is a very special, very weird mammal, and (as yet) I haven't done it justice at Tet Zoo. That will be rectified in time, honest (I've been keen for years to write about the suction-feeding, and about the [...]
Classes starting today, so I have to be brief:
Unique twin ash plumes from Sinabung in Indonesia, erupting on August 29, 2010.
Sinabung
The Indonesian volcano continues to experience explosions, which one last night (well, last night here in Ohio) that prompted an ash advisory for aircraft up to [...]
There are many active faults in Nevada. A huge chunk of the state helps to accommodate the stress imparted by the relative motion of the Pacific and North American plates...at least that is what I am told. In any case, the array of active faults results in some pathological Quaternary [...]
The legacy of pluvial lakes in Nevada may be the state's most redeeming Quaternary quality. Not only did it host the lion's share of Lake Lahontan (and its earlier precursors) but it hosted a small part of Lake Bonneville in addition to 10s of other large-ish lakes in isolated closed basins. I [...]
Thanks to Greg Stock for bringing this one to my attention. Yosemite National Park have produced a video providing information for visitors about the hazards associated with rockfalls. It includes an extraordinary piece of footage - captured by a visitor to the park - of a rockfall detaching [...]
Sorry about the lack of posts - I've been not only frantically prepping for class and my Eyja talk, but also I'm somewhat under the weather with an ill-timed sickness, so even though there is stuff to talk about, I haven't really had time/wherewithal to deal with it.
However, expect big things [...]
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