Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week

More interesting links that I’ve shared via Twitter over the past seven days. If I had to highlight just one you should really click on, take some time to be wowed by the HiRISE imagery of Mars over at the Big Picture – they are jaw-droppingly beautiful. And seismogenic – also known as Julian from Harmonic Tremors – earned all the geonerd cred, and everyone’s insane jealously, by filming his encounters with Hawaiian lava.
Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Large Hadron Collider Manages to convey excitement without any destroy the Earth!! nonsense.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/eureka/article6899505.ece
Zuska explores cultural parallels between scientific and religious institutions.
http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska/2009/11/can_we_talk_about_science_i_me.php
(via @ScienceBlogs )
35 beautiful landscapes selected from HiRISE imagery at The Big Picture. Coffee table book out when?
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html
(via @HiRISE)
Philippines: Mayon ‘may explode anytime’, heavy rains mean lahar risk remains.
http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/component/content/article/42-rokstories/5412-mount-mayon-may-explode-anytime–phivolcs-official
(via @volcanismblog)
Dr. Albert Bartlett’s "Laws of Sustainability".
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5925
(via @TheOilDrum)
Geoengineering in the House. Of Congress, that is. Seems testimony was sensible, at least.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/11/geoengineering_in_the_house.html
(via @NatureNews)
Some beautiful images of islands from space. No. 10 us the coolest.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/islands-space/
(via @geographile)
MESSENGER Rewrites Mercury Textbooks Even Before Entering Orbit: Lots of iron, but not in silicates…
http://www.planetary.org/news/2009/1105_MESSENGER_Rewrites_Mercury_Textbooks.html
(via @elakdawalla)
The World’s Costly Nitrogen Addiction: 80 megatons of fertiliser used/year; only 17 gets into food.
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2207
(via @YaleE360)
Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System Dust cloud formed by lots of proto-planetary collisions?
http://www.physorg.com/news176576185.html
Another example of synthetic aperture radar data being used to track volcanism in the African Rift Valley.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104123027.htm
Solar power generation around the clock . Heat stored in molten salt -> electricity as needed.
http://www.physorg.com/news176632405.html
(via @physorg_com)
Haunting outlines of bones and plastic highlight impact of plastic on albatrosses.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/nov/03/albatross-plastic-poison-pacific
(via @BobOHara, @edyong209)
Blog post from @brianshiro about his work at Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
http://www.astronautforhire.com/2009/11/tsunami-kind-of-month.html
Not pretty at all: Athabasca Oil Sands: open-pit mines and tailings ponds line the Athabasca River.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=40997&src=iotdrss
(via @EarthObser)
Fibre optic solar cells.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8341186.stm
(via @suehutton)
Even if all other CO2 emissions stopped, fully exploiting Canada oil sands -> 2C global warming.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article6902006.ece
(via @twitoil)
CO2 from forest destruction overestimated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/03/forest-destruction-co2-overestimated
(via @guardianscience)
Video of lava flows on Kilauea from @seismogenic. Not jealous not jealous not jealous…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqj_VGQUC8g ,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnbcYtgDwCw
Run don’t walk to Cassini raw images site for new pics from Enceladus flyby e.g.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/?start=1 ,http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS54/N00145397.jpg
(via @elakdawalla)
Nice discussion of the Shiva Crater palava by Suvrat.
http://suvratk.blogspot.com/2009/11/end-cretaceous-how-many-impacts-how.html
‘Ultra-primitive’ particles found in comet dust Including lots of ‘pre-solar’ grains.
http://www.physorg.com/news176400764.html
(via @physorg_com)
New PNAS study lists 17 easy household changes that would reduce US ems by 7%
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/23/0908738106.abstract
(via @KHayhoe)
Atacama mudflows may be equivalent of controversial recent flow deposits on Mars.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/02/2730988.htm
(via @geologynews)
Geological Society of London on fossil webs found in amber: wow!
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/geoscientist/geonews/fossilwebs
(via @geosociety)
Coping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best?
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2205
(via @YaleE360)
Solar power from Sahara a step closer CSP network aims to provide 15% of Euro power by 2050. Ambitious…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/01/solar-power-sahara-europe-desertec#
Planet hunt delayed by noise problems with Kepler. Fixable though.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091030/full/news.2009.1051.html
(via @NatureNews)