voluntaryXchange (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The Bottomless Well brings up something I'd forgotten: that North America is the biggest carbon sink in the world (this was in Science about 10 years ago): North America as a whole is, apparently, a carbon sink. ... America's terrestrial...
Neanderpundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Let’s talk about the scientific method a bit, which you clearly do not understand. My demand for a time machine is specific and important, for reasons I will describe. Let’s say, taking one of your examples, of “Fossil thermometers”- for instance, that there’s a specific type of seashell that INVARIABLY stores a specific amount of [...]
Right Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vegetation die-off (areas of reddish-brown) in New England observed by NASA satellite, revealing the negative influence of heating oil use on normally healthy vegetation. From ecoEnquirer : (Greenbelt...( read more )
Laelaps (Free subscription) | yesterday
I haven't interviewed Paul Sereno (yet) but there are a few short interview clips up on YouTube where he reflects on his career as a professional paleontologist; Read the comments on this post...
The Click Heard Round the World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill from the Field Museum showing a large fossil archival area Today was the first substantive day of the I Dig Tanzania field trip to Chicago, since yesterday was really just the New York folks arriving and heading to Wrigley...
BeerAdvocate (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Wikinomics.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The other day I found myself perusing the New York Times like I’m apt to do anytime I need a few minutes to de-focus and relax. The third most emailed article of the day, “If You Have a Problem, Ask Everyone,” caught my eye. “Hmm,” I think to myself. “That sounds collaborative. I’ll check it [...]
Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
(PhysOrg.com) -- It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. Anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy of the University of California, Santa Cruz, has advanced the investigation of the diet of early human ancestors by painstakingly measuring the mechanical properties of the underground parts of nearly 100 plant species across sub-Saharan Africa.
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The federal Bureau of Land Management wants to make it easy for the fossil fuel industry to siphon oil out of the Rocky Mountains -- but it's not clear whether this would work, and it could be an environmental disaster...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
A team of paleontologists said Thursday that they have unearthed dinosaur bones near Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, dating as far back as 75 million years.
The Click Heard Round the World (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Yesterday, Global Kids and the Field Museum brought together a group of teens from New York and Chicago for the second of the "I Dig Tanzania" summer camp. Over the course of the next two days, we'll have them meeting...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Source: Reuters TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters Life!) - The fossilised remains of a dinosaur that died as a child were discovered in Mongolia by a team of local and Japanese researchers, who said the find was rare because ...
USC News (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Could CO2 be used to fuel the world’s economies and reverse global warming? Top scientists at a NSF/USC workshop reach for the moon.
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
See also this related story from the Sacramento Bee: Carbon Markets Take Shape which outlines California’s agreement with six other Western states and four Canadian provinces released the draft of a plan to set up a vast market for greenhouse-gas emissions that aims to ease the burden of the war on global warming. Starting in 2012, [...]
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raimondo | 11/18/2007
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark Amazing Revelations of the Phenomenal Power of Gold by Laurence Gardner Throughout the past century, and especially since the days of Albert Einstein, scientists have been searching for the Holy Grail of modern physics, which they classify as a unified Theory of Everything. This has led to some amazing discoveries and the emergence of a whole new language, which includes...
