March Madness 2013: Mammals Edition!

March 14, 2013
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Did you know hippos have 20-inch canines and are responsible for more human deaths in Africa annually than any other animal? That when attacked the wombat runs to its burrow and protects the entrance with its armored rear end? And the capybara is the largest South American rodent and keeps anacondas fat? Well, you would [...]

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Science Online: Information Sharing First; The Medium Is Not The Message

February 26, 2013

Recently, several geobloggers brought up an excellent point on science communication: Now that it has been established that researchers need to do more outreach to share their work, HOW? The barriers are plenty – sharing on the internet takes energy, time, some understanding of the different online outlets, putting words together in an explanatory and [...]

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February 16, 2013

Russia! Bolide strike! Meteor impact! What does this all mean and why does the media keep using these terms interchangeably? Here: How to tell the difference between a meteor, meteorite, asteroid and comet. A bolide is a projectile fireball associated with meteor activity. Daring Bolide is the name of my Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction tribute blog (apologies [...]

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Accretionary Wedge 55: Geo Injuries

February 6, 2013
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It’s February 2013, which means it’s my turn to host the Accretionary Wedge! The Accretionary Wedge is a geology blog carnival that was started in August 2007. Editions will be monthly (roughly) and hosted on a different geoscience blog each time. The accident-prone person that I am, I chose the topic of Geo Injuries. Look [...]

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Rocks And Mardi Gras

February 1, 2013
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“Measure the strike and dip on this baby!” Rocks and Mardi Gras is something I’ve often considered renaming the blog. That or Rocks On The Rocks. You know, so I can make dumb Carnival time jokes like the one above. Tweet

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6000-Year-Old Texas

January 22, 2013

Alas, the horrible creationist Louisiana Science & Education Act (SB70) wasn’t repealed, but the Orleans Parish School Board doesn’t want anything to do with it. On December 18, 2012, the board voted unanimously  to prohibit the use of any textbooks that include revisionist history (as in Texas) or creationism, including intelligent design (ID). They also [...]

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Krewe du Vieux 2013

January 21, 2013
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The most exciting aspect of walking in New Orleans’s Krewe du Vieux parade every year is not dressing up, throwing goodies to miles and miles of crowd, the loudness, color and flash of everything or even ending the night jamming to the best bands in the city who gather together to play just for us. [...]

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Find Wet Stuff in Harder, Not-Wet Stuff

January 17, 2013

Remember when xkcd described how a rocket works using only the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language? “Saturn V Rocket” isn’t in the list, so it was reduced to “Up-Goer Five.” Now Theo Sanderson has created an Up-Goer Five text “editor” into which you can type anything you want and it warns [...]

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