Stuff I linked to on Twitter this week

Another set of interesting links for you.
BBC video: inside a destroyed village in Sumatra. Scary quake damage.
The podClast – episode 14 – The Geobloggers in the Pub: San Francisco episode.
(via @Yorrike)
Hey geology bloggers! … take this survey.
(via @clasticdetritus)
David Mitchell’s Observer piece on the impoance of curiosity-led research is brilliant.
(via @markgfh)
Fossils of ancient wood-rotting fungus suggests world’s forests were wiped out in end Permian extinction.
BBC NEWS: Malawi windmill boy with big fans. A real scrapheap challenge!
‘Planned recession’ could avoid catastrophic climate change. Good idea, will never happen.
(via @geographile, @Eah_News)
Large distant quakes increase number of small quakes on San Andreas.
(via @NatureNews)
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program does exist, although seems less active than IODP…
(From conversation with @stressrelated, @geologyclaire)
Experts draw up ocean-drilling wish list. Including renewing the quest to drill down to the Moho.
(via @NatureNews)
Is the Global Oil Tank Half-Full, Is It Half-Empty …or Are We Running on Fumes?
from (via @TheOilDrum)
Viking 2 missed Maian water by just inches. Possibly, anyway.
(via @Eah2larryo)
Reviews and the junior faculty member. How many is too many?
(via @ScienceBlogs)
Sichuan quake: rupture along multiple segments takes place “approximately once in 4,000 years”.
Updated 500+ science types on Twitter; now it’s much easier to follow the Scientwists.
(via @sciencebase)
For those who were asking, you can quite easily perform a custom Twitter search (either using this form or by a direct query) that returns posts containing a link by a particular user within a particular time period. I’m working on a script which then takes that output and does some basic reformatting to make the items more readable.