Monthly Archives: July 2010

Today’s Hot Topic? Bottled Water

On this hot, hot day, when much of the eastern United States is beset by a record-breaking heat wave, what could be more refreshing than a nice cold, fresh bottle of water? After all, that’s exactly what is recommended by … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, environment, hydrology, ranting

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Another week, another list of interesting links originally shared via Twitter; but now with added watery goodness!
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Categories: links

Dear readers: tell us about yourself

Delurk for just one day and give us some feedback. Please?
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Categories: bloggery

Friday focal mechanisms

A brief summary of the week’s large earthquakes and their tectonic context.
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Categories: earthquakes, geology, tectonics

How do we know Gabon’s ‘multicellular’ fossils are 2.1 billion years old?

The fossil record prior to 550 million years ago is so patchy that every discovery is going to cause some fanfare. That is certainly case with these odd looking things, which have been proclaimed in Nature as the oldest mulitcellular … Continue reading

Categories: fossils, geology, paper reviews, past worlds, Proterozoic