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Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Things we’ve written elsewhere In an invited commentary for Earth magazine (solicited in the aftermath of the arsenic life controversy), Chris discusses the impact of social media like blogs and Twitter on peer review and the discussion of published science … Continue reading

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Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week

Volcanoes It’s been 1 year since Eyjafjallajokull closed European airspace. Here’s a great retrospective from Erik Klemetti: http://bigthink.com/ideas/37870 Meanwhile, over at volcano1010, John Stevenson reports on the latest results from scientists who are studying the eruption, especially the tough problem … Continue reading

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Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week.

Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week We’ve been away for a couple of weeks, but now we return you to your normal linky service. Volcanoes Eruption of Laki may not have caused an unusually cold winter in 1783. … Continue reading

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New at Erratics – the largest meteorite crater in the world

The clinching evidence for the Vredefort dome being formed by an impact did not come from aerial photos, but from under the microscope. Continue reading

Categories: links, planets, Proterozoic, structures

Sendai/Tohoku earthquake round-up

It’s hardly surprising that my browsing this week has been focussed largely on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan (which is now officially being referred to as the Tohuku earthquake, rather than the Sendai earthquake; I’d complain … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, links