A Film For Every Year (Part 1)

A Film For Every Year (Part 1)

A Film For Every Year (Part 1)

Hey folks. Had some sudden and unexpected business crop up out of town, so I've been out of the blogging loop for a while. But I'm back here in Austin and ready to try to get back to my usual posting schedule. You know, the one you've all become accustomed to: irregular. There's a meme going around,...

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Download Festival | 07.19.08 | California

Download Festival | 07.19.08 | California

By: Dennis Cook Download Festival :: 07.19.08 :: Shoreline Amphitheatre :: Mountain View, CA Gang of Four from myspace.com/gangoffour The cacophony of commerce hit you before you walked through the gates of Shoreline Amphitheatre last Saturday. Sexy new VW convertibles sat outside the box office off...

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Deep-Sea Basalt Rocks May Offer Vast Repository for CO2

Deep-Sea Basalt Rocks May Offer Vast Repository for CO2

Deep-sea basalt region for CO2 burial. Red outline shows where water depth exceeds 2,700 meters and sediment thickness exceeds 200 meters; hatched areas show where sediment thickness exceeds 300 meters. Seamounts and areas near plate boundaries or continental shelf are excluded. Click to enlarge. Cr...

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Living on the Ice Shelf

Living on the Ice Shelf

Humanity's Meltdown by Mike Davis www.tomdispatch.com (June 26 2008) 1. Farewell to the Holocene Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary. This February, while cranes ...

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Davelanta2

Davelanta2

My day did not get off to a very good start. Two kids prank-called me at 3:30am and tried again before I had my phone put on "do-not-disturb." They were staying here at the hotel, because nobody at the switchboard let a call through. Where the heck are their parents? Because this was my ONE SHOT at ...

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14 million year old fossils discovered in Antarctica - Meri News

14 million year old fossils discovered in Antarctica - Meri News
A group of scientists have found nearly 14 million-year-old fossils inside the ice of Antarctica. As per the researchers the condition of these fossilised plants and animals ...

UO museum breaks ground for new wing - Statesman Journal
EUGENE, Ore. — The University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History has broken ground on a new wing to house more than 500,000 artifacts unearthed by road and ...

Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2008) — National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of ...

November 2005 Archive - National Geographic
Even with their tiny brains, bumblebees can solve complex color puzzles, new research shows. Learning how could lead to robots that see the way bees—and people—do. Mystery of ...

ASU researcher may have discovered key to life before its origin on ... - PhysOrg

ASU researcher may have discovered key to life before its origin on ... - PhysOrg
An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of “handedness” in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State ...

Oregonians urged to forage for meteor scraps - KEPR
LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) - Meteorite scientist Dick Pugh says Chicken Little may have had a point: The sky really is falling. Well, part of it, anyway. At a recent talk here he urged ...

Geology congress for everyone - Norway Post
The conference, held 6-14 August, was opened by King Harald at the Norway Convention Centre at Lillestroem. It is not only for professional scientists. The public is welcome to ...