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Becky Oskin reports on the "new view" of how the western cordillera may have been made noted below April 3, 2013, Livescience.comA novel interpretation of how the western mountains of North America were made Interview with Eldridge Moores in Nature, April 3, 2013
Report makes chilling forecast about future Pacific Northwest earthquake π 2013 StatesmanJournal.com
Superquakes, supercycles, and global earthquake clustering: Recent research and recent quakes reveal surprises in major fault systems --Earth Magazine, Jan. 7, 2013 Mystery mounds in Hood Canal may be result of earthquakes ~ 1000 yrs ago Seattle Times news Nov. 30, 2012-WA Div. of Geology scientists make discovery Episodic Tremor and Slip event (ETS) of 2012—a record setter! This is a story by Jake Ellison of KPLU in Tacoma; The tremor page at PNSN Puget Sound faults An information-packed wikipedia entry! Perhaps a better name would be "Puget Lowland faults", but in any case, it's a very useful interpretation of the structures. Bremerton WA: new subsidence, drowned forest, and tsunami and landslide evidence about the size of the Seattle Fault earthquake CE 900–930 July 17, 2012
New faults and earthquake risks found in Washington in the Bellingham basin April 25, 2012
An interesting blog post by John Vidale regarding the importance of monitoring at Tohoku and Cascadia 3-11-12
Tsumami potential in the Pacific Northwest—Japan's quake hints: is inundation >100 ft possible? Sandy Doughton, Seattle Times 3-11-12
KOMO "What if" special on Cascadia earthquake hazards, 2011
USGS Preliminary Atlas of shallow, active, tectonic deformation in the Puget Lowland, Washington released August, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_faults
Slow seismic slip event of August 2010
animation: plate tectonic history of western North America
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Yahoo Science News
EurekAlert stay up to date on science publications Institute of Earth Science Education
American Geological Institute AGI publishes Earth Magazine which supercedes Geotimes (searchable archives)
Mountain Beltway, Callan Bentley's geoblog
The Geology BlogTuff Cookie's geoblog
Magna cum Laude Jessica Ball's hot rocks blog
Northwest Geology Field Trips blog by Dave Tucker
The Northwest Earth science listserv
Sliding Thought Blog-- Washington's landslide blog
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Encyclopedia of Earth –2008 winner of the Best Website Award from the Geoscience Information Society
Washington State geology field trips
Washington DNR State Geologic maps—One-stop link
The National Center for Science Education
Missoula Floods paper by Keenan Lee
NOVA | scienceNOW | Get Involved | PBS
Floods and flow resources--teaching Mars geology on Earth
Entertaining links and exercises on geologic time
International Commission on Stratigraphy
Windows to the Universe by NESTA—The National Earth Science Teachers Association
Real scientists doing science!
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Science_News
Ice surge in Minnesota, 2013! see the videos on youtubeBenefits of sunshine
ocean floor holds ancient DNA
When did plate tectonics begin on Earth? ...and what came before? April 28, 2013
Otzi the iceman was in poor dental health
Pioneering women of the geosciences a Rosetta Stones blog note about these overlooked women, March 27, 2013
Oldest known Eutherian mammal fossil discovered in Japan This early Cretaceous (112 million yrs ago) Eutherian gave rise to placental mammals
Earth's mysterious tectonic boundary layer between lithosphere and asthenosphere 3/21/13 Yahoo News
"Lost" Farallon tectonic plate found beneath California
The graphene story playing with sticky tape led to discovery of a carbon crystal with great potential!
About dinosaurs that had long necks...
More details on the precise dating of Chicxulub crater February 8, 2013; Reuters via Yahoo News
More precise daing of the Chicxulub crater and dinosaur extinction impact UC Berkeley News, February 7, 2013; Read about Gerta Keller's ideas on the dinosaur exctinction
Recent rejuvenation of a portion of the Appalachians—Earth's mantle on the move? NC State Univ. news
A Jurassic bird fossil with teeth Live Science Jan. 7, 2013 Are Neanderthals Human? NOVA Science Now, by Carl Zimmer, posted Sept. 20, 2012 Bacteria fossil >3.9 billion years old found in Pilbara Australia ABC News, Jan. 7, 2013 New information on use of tools etc by Peking Man (a Homo Erectus) gleened from reexcavation of cave Yahoo News/Livescience.com December 31, 2012 New evidence about the extinction of saber-toothed cats at the end of the last Ice Age Yahoo Science, Dec. 28, 2012; analysis of fossil teeth at La Brea Tar Pits provides clues Lizards and snakes suffered extinctions at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (aka "K-T") boundary too Dec. 10, 2012; Too bad you can't access the entire paper!
Scientists debate if Deccan Traps lava or the Chicxulub asteroid killed off the dinoraurs 65 million years ago Yahoo news reports from the AGU annual meeting, December 2012
Did bacteria play a role in the greatest extinction in the fossil record ~250 million years ago? Yahoo news reports from the AGU annual meeting, December 2012 Is the Grand Canyon young or old? NY Times Fossil footprint of giant Eocene bird Diatryma giganteus found in Eocene Chuckanut Sandstone near Deming WA Water for the Rock Science News, March 17, 2002, Where did Earth's water originate? A good overview of the evidence by Ben Harder Ferocious Jurassic pliosaur
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson interview with Stephen Colbert ...a long interview (12/2011), but well worth watching. Lots on the value of scientific exploration and investigation
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on why exploring space still matters This NPR interview is just shy of 8 minutes long
How dust from the Saraha Desert influences the Amazon rainforest
579 Million-year-old volcanic ash buries weird Ediacaran life forms in Newfoundland Field guide to microbes? March 1, 2012, Wired Science
New pterosaur fossil found in China
Video of tornado on the Sun 2/17/2012, from the NPR news blog
Huge source of water found in protoplanetary disk TW Hydrae
October 2011: new planet formation caught in the act
Rise and fall of Rome recorded in tree rings January 2011 BBC News
Possible impact crater found in the Congo
AP story about the hacked emails from climate scientiests Dec. 12, 2009 (This is a long article)
A Warming Arctic: Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster than Ever - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Nov. 13, 2009
soot as a climate forcing factor (abstract)
June 2009: ICGS recommends redefining the base of the Pleistocene series of rocks/sediments
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Atmosphere_weather_climate_paleoclimate
Quantifying this consensus on anthropogenic global warming in scientific literature www.skepticalscience.com 5/15/2013 more about this
New evidence of bacteria related to the Justinian Plague
CO2 passes 400 ppm Climate Central; NOAA: CO2 passes 400 at Mauna Loa
Earth's CO2 flirts with 400 ppm 5/8/2013 WA Post Wonkblog
Parenting in the age of climate change from Dan's wild wild science journal April 24, 2013
Mayan calendar indicates drought led to collapse
Evolution and climate change in the next generation science standards (NGSS)
The wisdom of the isotopically-gifted little clams!
Rapid melting of Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru at a rapid pace over 25 years The Week, April 5, 2013; NY Times article on the changing Quelccaya Ice Cap
~6 ka, when the Saraha went from green to brown Livescience.com
Climate scientists respond to climate change cynics about Holocene climate reconstruction of Marcott et al March 31, 2013 realclimate.org
Why the globe hasn't warmed much for the past decade research paper reveals where the missing heat is...climatecentral.org
Michael Mann, a leading climate scientist, talks about personal attacks him from a variety of sources March 27, 2013, The Scientist
Motion to dismiss the indictment of Punxatawney Phil A Dan's Wild Wild Science journal commentary on groundhogs and climate change; 3/24/13
Bill Moyers interview: Encore: ending the silence on climate change March 15, 2013
Why was CO2 lower during the last Ice Age? results of new research show it was stored in the deep ocean
Plants set the stage for later larger life by producing Oxygen--new dates for Oxygen milestones by T.W. Dahl using Mo isotopes
Large 2008 collapse of Jacobshavn (Illulissat) Glacier in Greenland largest glacial calving event ever filmed (by Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski)
Berkeley Earth surface temperature
Beyond denial: the next frontier in climate change Huffington Post, Dec. 11, 2012, by Peter DeMenocal, noted climate scientist
Climate change: lines of evidence ...videos by the National Academies of Science
Black carbon (soot) is more of a climate forcing factor than previously thought AGU EOS Januarly 15, 2013 The warming of Earth continues: NASA data up through 2012 Snowball Earth A truly awesome resource on the Neoproterozoic glaciations and implications for evolution of the Metazoans Submerged forest in Lake Tahoe reveals ancient megadroughts worse than the Dust Bowl High Country News, Dec. 24, 2012
Identifying human influences on atmospheric temperature Santer et al, Science, 2013, v. 110, no. 1 [open access] Univ. of Pittsburgh scientists study past 1500 years of climate in the Pacific Northwest The Oregonian, July 2, 2012 6 degrees of devastation—Archaeology News Network article on future impacts of global climate change A piece on religion, politics, and science of climate change the bulletted science of climate change Animated map of global dust, SO2, salt spray, etc Professor Andy Bunn of WWU talks about climate change April 9, 2009 presentation at WSU Whatcom Extension on Vimeo Link found between cold European winters and solar activity Very cool (ugh, sorry, couldn't resist saying that!)Hurricanes since 1851 Russian scientists reach subglacial Antarctic Lake Vostok after 20 years of drilling Earth Magazine, Feb. 2012
Climate scientists counter claims and attacks of climate change deniers from Physics Today, February 2012
Humanity's water footprint from the Physics Today blog 2/17/2012
Tegrity recording: Dr. Terry Gerlach (USGS-CVO) lecture on "Volcanic vs. anthropogenic CO2" Feb. 17, 2012 STEM lecture at Centralia College; with added links to publications
solar eruption of January 2012 history link blurb on the historic climate of the Puget Lowland
Intellicast Atlantic weather satellite and hurricane viewer
GOES satellites and GOES satellite products
Wind Map Very cool realtime map of winds in lower 48 states of USA
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Environment_and_sustainability
time-lapse videos of Earth changes Geophysicist challenges fracking's bad rep
UN World Ocean Assessment World Ocean Assessment workshop
Singing the blues about water scarcity Columbia Univ. Earth Institute
Stormwater and Puget Sound water quality March 2013, and nice video from OPB, Oregon Field Guide
Our world from the International Space Station
Sustainability Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Washivore a website about agriculture and food production in Washington State 3.8 billion-pixel tour of Mount Everest An article about the proposal to explore for potential mineral resources near Mount St. Helens Vancouver Columbian, Dec. 16, 2012; By Natalie St. John, The Daily News Fracking and earthquakes
science paper: "Land transformation by humans: a review" by Hooke, Martin-Duque, and Pedrazza, in GSA Today December 2012; an overview of how humans have altered Earth
Geologic history
Missoula Floods
Missoula Floods—In Ice Age Floods Institute story on youtube
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Natural_hazards —living on the edge
Tibet landslide 2013 A catastrophic landslide that killed 83 people; April 13, 2013; were humans responsible? hmmm??? Dr. Dave's BlogSnow avalanche video
Using social media and GIS to map a volcanic eruption's aftermath Spring 2013 Arcnews
WADNR page on the Whidbey Island-Coupeville landslide
Whidbey island landslide of March 27, 2012 --images KIRO story with location map for landslide video of landslide
Foreshocks announce future earthquakes on some faults on March 24, 2013 in Livescience by Becky Orskin, Our Amazing Planet staff writer
2011 youtube earthquake visualization map Watch Japan as you approach the first part of MarchJanuary 2013 Mount Cook landslide, New Zealand Earthquakes map and short earthquake video about magnitude --from "our amazing planet, June 28, 2012 Ted Talks: seismologist Ross Stein on "defeating earthquakes". ~20 minute presentation on seismic risk and how we can reduce it More musing and clues (maybe) about the Cascadia megathrust fault and potential future earthquakes Seattle PI online, January 2, 2013 Seismologist Kelin Wang on what we've learned about megathrust earthquakes Nature Geoscience, v. 6, no. 11–12, Dec. 2012; free, but you must register with Nature to access Deep tremors may foretell major quakes "thought provoking article...[perhaps] somewhat optimistic...so far we have only vague and untested ideas" John Vidale (more research ahead!); NBC News Science, December 2012. video: landslide derails freight train in Everett WA Dec. 17, 2012 Deep Earth tremors may foretell earthquakes Our Amazing Planet, December 14, 2012 (from 2012 AGU meeting abstract)fault map might improve forecasts of earthquakes The article says "predict" but they don't really mean that, they mean forecast, a more general term. Dec. 17, 20122007 debris flow (not mudslide) in Afghanistan Toutatis asteroid flyby, December 2012 Yahoo News video from the AGU Annual Meeting December 2012: A trio of fascinating talks about communicating natural hazards and the verdicts in the L'Aquila case IAVCEI condems the conviction and judgment of earthquake scientists and emergency preparedness officials by an Italian court Geologist Ken Cameron posted this on his Facebook page. The letter by Ray Cas was posted on the Volcano Listserv Oct. 25, 2012
Debris flows in Austria August 2012 NOAA tsunami animations
Post quake inspections can mislead, October 2011
geologic evidence of past superstorms in California, USGS research January 2011
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chilemoves.htm
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chilequakemap.htm
Shake,
Rattle, Seattle Peter Yanev in
3/28/2010 NY Times about how “new” buildings handled the Mg. 8.8 quake in
Yahoo news on the deadly New Years 2010 landslides in Angra dos Reis Brazil
On the deadly New Years 2010 landslides in Brazill--the Latin Americanist
Heavy rain triggers landslides, flash floods, killing 48 in Tamil Nadu India
Sept. 2009: Deadly tsunami triggered by strong (8.3 magn) quake in American Samoa, the South Pacific
May 2009 deadly landslide in the Phillipines in Pantukan in the province of Compostela Valley
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Oceanography_news_and_sites
Antarctic Ocean whale skeleton discoveredSea level...how high could it go? Ancient deposits provide some clues NY Times, January 21, 2013 Mysterious giant squid finally photographed Livescience via Yahoo News Jan. 8, 2013 Joides Resolution and Hess Deep Rift expedition Dec. 2012—Feb. 2013 More on James Cameron's findings in his great solo descent into the Challenger Deep Video from James Cameron's deep dive
Yahoo news reports from the AGU annual meeting, December 2012 Filmmaker James Cameron performs first solo descent to the hadal zone, the deepest part of the ocean, March 2012 National Geographic News Service High tides in Venice Nov. 11, 2012 Humans caused historic Great Barrier Reef collapse Yahoo News; Nov. 7, 2012 Ocean acidification peak news "Surfs up": a NY Times review of Susan Casey's book on rogue, freak, and giant waves
NOAA sea level rise viewer
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Pacific_Northwest_geology_and_hydrology
New Washington State kmz files for geology!
2012 US Geological Survey report on sedimentation downstream of Mount Rainer The drumbeat of sediment moving downstream, year to year, storm to storm...Bruce Bjornstad's Ice Age floods website Giant Eocene bird fossil found in Whatcom County
WSDOT report on economic impact of great floods of 2007—2008 on I-5 & I-90
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5240/
New 2010 USGS report on the
Horse lava tubes in
Deschutes County, Oregon
Evolution of the Pacific Northwest by John Figge A great new online resource on the geology of the Pacific Northwest by John Figge of North Seattle Community College
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Tree-ring_news
Growth rings from the time of the Black Death
The fellowship of the rings Nice article on Kauri trees & tree-rings in general. From National Geographic News via The Tree-Ring Times
Tree-ring study shows monsoon droughts in the American southwest
GIS and ancient trees reveal past temperature and climate change from Arcnews Winter 2012–2-13
Space explosion to blame for tree-ring mystery? space.com via Yahoo news Jan. 23, 2013
A story of Bristlecone Pines Aeon, Oct. 16, 2012
Early neolithic water wells reveal earliest wood architecture PLOS 2012 (but how do you date a paper on PLOS?) Here's the citation for the paper I found via eurekalert.org:
Tegel W, Elburg R, Hakelberg D, Stauble H, Buntgen U (2012) Early Neolithic Water Wells Reveal the World's Oldest Wood Architecture. PLOS ONE 7(12): e51374.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051374
Japanese lake sediments extend radiocarbon calibration curve back to more than 52,000 years before present
Finding ancient wood in Mongolia tree rings and the paleoclimate and paleoecology of Mongolia, a blog about ongoing research Lord of the rings
tree-rings reveal secrets of a barn From the Tree-Ring Times
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Science_videos_online
NOVA: Earth from Space a marvelous, two-hour special with amazing photography and satellite imageryNOVA: Iceland's doomsday volcanoes aired January 2, 2013
Eugenie Scott on science, origins, and religion
TED talks: Amory Lovins 40-year plan for energy
Geologist and author Marcia Bjornerud gives a lecture on geomimicry Oct. 20, 2009
Neil deGrasse Tyson examines the origin of the Solar System
Earth Revealed
9 short videos summarizing the big ideas in Earth science ...from AGI, the American Geosciences Institute
The rise and fall of the Great Lakes A classic by Bill Mason
Pancakes and geology with Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll
Fossil rock anthem a parody of "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO
How stuff works: science videos from the Discovery Network
NOVA
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Volcano_News
MODIS, MODVOLC, and hot spot volcanism MODVOLC monitoring site for hot spots More on Yellowstone: the magma chamber is 50% larger than we thought it was! Our Amazing Planet April 18, 2013, by Becky Oskin
On the formation of Yellowstone and mantle plume hypothesis It would be good to hear what volcanologists say about this. More details?
Olivine—GSA geocache
"The year without a summer" a special focus on the effects of the 1816 eruption of Tambora AAAS April 1, 2013 (no foolin', this happened!)
Radar interfereometry catches "breathing" of Kilauea volcano as magma and gas inflate and deflate it Becky Oskin, Livescience.com
Ongoing Pu'u'O'o eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii–30 years of eruptive activity
new crater-view trail proposed for Mount St. Helens
Volcanic geology of the Golan Heights
Seismologists study glacier earthquakes on Mount Rainier KING 5 news and video; Kate Alstadt and Steve Malone of Univ. of WA are doing the study, Dec. 16, 2012
USFS tentatively approves drilling plan near Mount St. Helens Dec. 4th Vancouver Columbian article; BLM still needs to approve plan.
Mount Hood's volcanic past Oregon Field Guide,
November 2012; the Mount Hood geology segment starts about 10.5 minutes
into the video (filmed in 2011)
NOVA—Deadliest Volcanoes 2012
Smithsonian News article about the 1985 volcanic CO2 tragedy in Cameron at Lake Nyos Thanks to Nathan Randall for pointing this out to me.
USGS video of the Crater Glacier movements at Mount St. Helens, 2005–2010 View is to the SE from the NW part of the crater. Very cool!
At Mount St. Helens: world's largest study of a volcanic system using seismology to start in 2014 The Columbian, August 21, 2012
Short video segment showing July 25, 2012 explosions of Sakurajima volcano in Japan Note shock waves and impacts of volcanic projectiles
Inflating South American volcano
Jakarta Globe on the Nov. 5, 2010 eruption of Merapi
The Daily News Online > Editorial > National Park designation would be best for Mount St. Helens Nov. 10th, 2009
America's most dangerous volcano, Mount Rainier Science News, Nov. 20, 2001; by Sid Perkins. Has a photo of the big subfossil stump buried by the Electron Mudflow ~CE 1500
Chaiten, an active caldera in southern Chile
http://volcanism.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/chaiten-increased-activity-reported-chilean-government-orders-total-evacuation/ recent reports from the Volcano Blog
OVDAS--the Southern Andes Volcano Observatory, Chile
a study Holocene tephras of Chilean volcanoes
Chaiten Volcano -- SI Global Volc. Network
Miscellaneous_volcano_sources
World Organization of Volcano Observatories
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Cosmos
Earth-Moon water may have same source NASA video shows 3 years of the Sun in 3 minutes Space.com via Yahoo News 4/27/2013; Solar video @ NASA SDO site (the whole thing) One year of the Sun
Kepler mission has discovered two potentially habitable planets ~1,200 light years from Earth; noted by JPL and NY Times April 20, 2013
Chemical evolution of galaxies—more proof that heavy metal was inevitable!
Mars gigapixel panorama taken by Curiousity Rover MSL Great resolution! Solar days 136–149
Review of Mars rover Curiousity's first seven successful months Space.com via Yahoo News 3/25/13
Forecast for the Sun and solar storms: a slight chance of havoc NY Times, Kenneth Chang, March 18, 2013; a nice piece!
Meteor over Manhattan March 23, 2013 GMT, Space.com
Comet Pan-Starr and comet Ison, 2013 -a short video at Space.com explaining the origin and time frame of the comets visibility to us on Earth
Images from ESO telescope show possible formation of new planet in the Milky Way 3/1/2013
NASA creates video of planet Mercury using images from Messenger spacecraft
Colossal meteor slammed Australia 300 million years ago crater found by Andrew Glickson, Australian Nat. Univ. Reuters, Feb. 15, 2013
Fireball as meteor slams into Siberia injuring 1200; hear it from 9,600 km away; NY Times February 15, 2013; video of the fireball : write up and ice crater photo
1999 RQ36 (560 m diam) will pass near Earth in 2182; IHT Rendezvous, Feb. 15, 2013; More on 1999RQ36
Asteroid 2012 DA14 passes 17,200 mi from Earth February 15, 2013; ABC News. 2/6/2013; Video about asteriod 2012DA14 (JPL); pics NASA reveals radar video and images of 2012 DA14 flyby
Comet Ison visits the inner Solar System in late November and December 2013; Space.com via Yahoo Science News February 6, 2013
January 11, 2013 bolide recorded on seismometers Voyager I at the Heliopause Largest spiral galaxy yet discovered NGC 6872 is 212 light years away and is 522,000 light years across, >5x the size of the Milky Way; Space.com via Yahoo News, Jan. 10, 2013"Zombie planet" Fomalhaut b directly imaged Space.com via Yahoo News, Jan. 9, 2013
Vast, thin plane of corotating dwarf galaxies orbits Andromeda galaxy MSN, 1/6/2013; the Nature paper (source, 1/3/2013); ars technica coverage 1/3/2013 odd reflective feature photographed on rock by Mars Curiosity rover Yahoo News, January 4, 2013 Baby planets (planetesimals) forming around fledgling star HD 142527 450 light years from Earth by Nola Taylor Redd at Space.com via Yahoo News, January 2, 2013
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Off_the_wire
Linquists identify ancient words...Is exposure to sunlight all bad? Perhaps not! 5/7/2013, Science Daily
The Fundamentals of Science that Americans are not learning, Part I Dan's wild wild science journal
The fundamentals of science we need to teach our students, Part II Dan's wild wild science journal
The Centennia Historical Atlas and then there is this: Historical map of Europe AD 1000 to present USA Today: How old is the Earth? Nov. 25, 2012; Geophyicist Clair Patterson published a breakthrough paper on the subject in 1955, but science news gets absorbed slowly! Database of fracking chemicals now available Using geophysics to analyze the elections NPR Nov. 9, 2012
End of the industrial revolution A powerful point of view by sustainability advocate Paul Gilding Geologic decathlon through Great Brittain —from Earth Magazine online, August 2012 gold, lead, and death in Nigeria--geology, economics, and culture lead to deadly results Earth Magazine, March 2012
fascinating gorilla video from liveleaks
"open science" ideas from an article in the New York Times Science section January 17, 2012
Space balloon takes camera in a takeout container to 100,000 ft
How green is your pet (from New Scientist Oct. 23, 2009
World's Most Amazing Views from Yahoo News
Ancient rock art near China Lake CA
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Other_stuff (mostly useful)
"Just a theory: 7 misused science words" from Yahoo News, 4/2/13
Irritating verbs-as-nouns from the Opinionator
FCC—smartphone security tips
Radiolab: the secret power of trees
Using QR codes in the classroom
Wind turbine at the Centralia College KNOLL
Revealing
maps—from Robert Krulwich's NPR news blog
Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet: News in Science, Health, Weather, Environment and Nature
10 phrases to deep-six your resume
Resources for Earth Science and Geography
Digital Library for Earth System Education
Weather and climate videos for online viewing American Meteorological Society
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Sensational_and/or_curious
North American English dialects based on pronunciation patterns
"Formations" a short video about geologically-themed music piece of music
resource furniture Cool beans!
hmmm--the least scientific nature video.... about rocks of course
Wild bike ride
10 reasons why I like the AGU Huffington Post, Rebecca Anderson's The Blog, Dec. 10, 2012
Grace Youn playing Little Black Submarines by the Black Keys So good!
Wind-powered beasts Gotta see this!
The best blues show I know— John Kessler's show on KPLU Saturday and Sunday nights.
Sounding_bowl
"Circumvolution Improbable" by Alexandre Lane Do this and you get an "A" for the class!
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