Since Anne and I have both been away, this is actually the last two weeks’ worth of interesting links for your clicking pleasure.
Blogs in motion
- In addition to the launch of Scientopia, Lab Spaces has also added a raft of new bloggers in recent weeks. They are blogging about science, science communication, and lives in science. It’s all good stuff; just take a glance at biochembelle’s roundup of the week’s posts to get a sense of the diversity of voices.
- Prolific tweeter @perrykid has also fired up a new geoblog, Hydrofelicity.
- Brian Romans is taking on an additional blogging outreach role with his debut QUEST community science blog: http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2010/08/05/learn-the-facts-about-serpentinite-before-it’s-removed-as-california’s-state-rock/
Tectonics
- Indian crust may have subducted to depths of 200km before being uplifted to form Himalayas, far beyond what current orogenic models suggest.
http://www.physorg.com/news200237328.html
(via @physorg_com) - The Mississippi River caused massive earthquakes in Missouri? It’s an idea:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7306/full/nature09258.html, http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/massive-earthquakes-missouri-what-th
(via @stcNCED)
Geohazards
- GPS satellites can detect ‘internal gravity waves’ produced by tsunamis. Warning poss. Even if no local instruments?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoveryNews-Earth-News/~3/i_47fZ-BKI4/satellites-use-ripples-in-space-to-detect-tsunamis.html - Nice audio report on Lusi mud volcano: draws parallels with Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
http://www.wbez.org/content.aspx?audioID=43631 - A nice post by @eruptionsblog on climate and volcano geomorphology in the Andes vs Cascades
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/07/climate_volcanism_and_the_ande.php - An astonishing landslide in China.
http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/astonishing-landslide-this-morning-in.html
Environment and Water
- Most interesting thing about this article on the problems with using shale gas as a ‘bridging fuel’ between coal and renewables: 60 years’ supply is ‘an abundance’. Short-term, much?
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2290 - We “can’t adapt to climate change without adding to the destruction created by…climate change” )
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/08/05/climate-change-how-adapting-to-warming-could-make-it-worse/?xid=rss-topstories
(via @jfleck) - A sobering article by @carlzimmer. Warming &stratified oceans could become depleted in O2 as a result of climate change.
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2301 - U.S. faces climate-driven water shortages [1/3 of counties by 2050]
http://www.grist.org/article/u.s.-faces-climate-change-caused-water-shortages/ - 1.8 million people, 90 percent of them children, lose their lives each year as a result of … unsafe drinking water”
http://globalwater.jhu.edu/magazine/article/the_world_is_dry/
(via @jfleck) - State in-holdings in Grand Teton National Park may be up for sale…and development
http://www.stagesofsuccession.com/2010/08/problems-at-grand-teton.html
Planets
- Mars site may hold ‘buried life’.Interesting, but slightly overselling ‘chemical similarity from remote sensing’…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10790648
General Geology
- A wonderful analogy at the end of this piece on the Earth’s inner core. The Earth is full of “solid-looking things…that might be better understood not as places, but as processes”.
http://economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2010/08/greenview - An ambitious & interesting project from Friends of the Pleistocene. Geologic City: A Field Guide to the GeoArchitecture of New York
http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/geologic-city-a-field-guide-to-the-geoarchitecture-of-new-york
Interesting Miscellaney
- The OED keeps a vault of unused words. Some look rather handy – some I’m sure I’ve heard in conversation…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7926646/Secret-vault-of-words-rejected-by-the-Oxford-English-Dictionary-uncovered.html
(via @kjhaxton, @2020science, @nigelcameron) - Are we less cautious sharing info online than in real life? Probably true for individuals, but I suspect the distributions overlap for populations.
http://www.anthropologyinpractice.com/2010/08/shifting-socialities-encounters-on-mass.html#more - Post-mockery by xckd, unis recongnise their useless websites. Because I’m sure no-one has ever pointed this out before.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/04/websites - A good list of advice for tenure-track faculty, from Prof in Training:
http://scientopia.org/blogs/trainingprofessor/2010/08/07/if-i-knew-then-what-i-knew-now/
(via @drskyskull) - More good advice from Prof-Like Substance: preliminary data: get it!
http://scientopia.org/blogs/proflikesubstance/2010/08/07/what-ive-done-wrong/
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.