{"id":3548,"date":"2009-11-08T07:01:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/11\/stuff-i-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-5\/"},"modified":"2009-11-08T07:01:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T07:01:47","slug":"stuff-i-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/11\/stuff-i-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span>More interesting links that I’ve shared via Twitter<\/a> 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<\/a> – they are jaw-droppingly beautiful. And seismogenic<\/a> – also known as Julian from Harmonic Tremors<\/a> – earned all the geonerd cred, and everyone’s insane jealously, by filming his encounters<\/a> with Hawaiian lava<\/a>.
\nBill Bryson’s Notes from a Large Hadron Collider Manages to convey excitement without any destroy the Earth!! nonsense.
\nhttp:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/science\/eureka\/article6899505.ece<\/a>
\nZuska explores cultural parallels between scientific and religious institutions.
\nhttp:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/thusspakezuska\/2009\/11\/can_we_talk_about_science_i_me.php<\/a>
\n(via @ScienceBlogs<\/a> )
\n35 beautiful landscapes selected from HiRISE imagery at The Big Picture. Coffee table book out when?
\nhttp:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2009\/11\/martian_landscapes.html<\/a>
\n(via @HiRISE<\/a>)
\nPhilippines: Mayon ‘may explode anytime’, heavy rains mean lahar risk remains.
\nhttp:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/42-rokstories\/5412-mount-mayon-may-explode-anytime–phivolcs-official<\/a>
\n(via @volcanismblog<\/a>)
\nDr. Albert Bartlett’s "Laws of Sustainability".
\nhttp:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/5925<\/a>
\n(via @TheOilDrum<\/a>)
\nGeoengineering in the House. Of Congress, that is. Seems testimony was sensible, at least.
\nhttp:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2009\/11\/geoengineering_in_the_house.html<\/a>
\n(via @NatureNews<\/a>)
\nSome beautiful images of islands from space. No. 10 us the coolest.
\nhttp:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/11\/islands-space\/<\/a>
\n(via @geographile<\/a>)
\nMESSENGER Rewrites Mercury Textbooks Even Before Entering Orbit: Lots of iron, but not in silicates…
\nhttp:\/\/www.planetary.org\/news\/2009\/1105_MESSENGER_Rewrites_Mercury_Textbooks.html<\/a>
\n(via @elakdawalla<\/a>)
\nThe World’s Costly Nitrogen Addiction: 80 megatons of fertiliser used\/year; only 17 gets into food.
\nhttp:\/\/www.e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2207<\/a>
\n(via @YaleE360<\/a>)
\nUnsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System Dust cloud formed by lots of proto-planetary collisions?
\nhttp:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news176576185.html<\/a>
\nAnother example of synthetic aperture radar data being used to track volcanism in the African Rift Valley.
\nhttp:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/11\/091104123027.htm<\/a>
\nSolar power generation around the clock . Heat stored in molten salt -> electricity as needed.
\nhttp:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news176632405.html<\/a>
\n(via @physorg_com<\/a>)
\nHaunting outlines of bones and plastic highlight impact of plastic on albatrosses.
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/gallery\/2009\/nov\/03\/albatross-plastic-poison-pacific<\/a>
\n(via <\/a>@BobOHara<\/a>, @edyong209<\/a>)
\nBlog post from @brianshiro<\/a> about his work at Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
\nhttp:\/\/www.astronautforhire.com\/2009\/11\/tsunami-kind-of-month.html<\/a>
\nNot pretty at all: Athabasca Oil Sands: open-pit mines and tailings ponds line the Athabasca River.
\nhttp:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=40997&src=iotdrss<\/a>
\n(via @EarthObser<\/a>)
\nFibre optic solar cells.
\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/8341186.stm<\/a>
\n(via @suehutton<\/a>)
\nEven if all other CO2 emissions stopped, fully exploiting Canada oil sands -> 2C global warming.
\nhttp:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/natural_resources\/article6902006.ece<\/a>
\n(via @twitoil<\/a>)
\nCO2 from forest destruction overestimated.
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/nov\/03\/forest-destruction-co2-overestimated<\/a>
\n(via @guardianscience<\/a>)
\nVideo of lava flows on Kilauea from @seismogenic<\/a>. Not jealous not jealous not jealous…
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aqj_VGQUC8g<\/a> ,http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wnbcYtgDwCw<\/a>
\nRun don’t walk to Cassini raw images site for new pics from Enceladus flyby e.g.
\nhttp:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/photos\/raw\/?start=1<\/a> ,http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/images\/raw\/casJPGFullS54\/N00145397.jpg<\/a>
\n(via @elakdawalla<\/a>)
\nNice discussion of the Shiva Crater palava by Suvrat.
\nhttp:\/\/suvratk.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/end-cretaceous-how-many-impacts-how.html<\/a>
\n‘Ultra-primitive’ particles found in comet dust Including lots of ‘pre-solar’ grains.
\nhttp:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news176400764.html<\/a>
\n(via @physorg_com<\/a>)
\nNew PNAS study lists 17 easy household changes that would reduce US ems by 7%
\nhttp:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2009\/10\/23\/0908738106.abstract<\/a>
\n(via @KHayhoe<\/a>)
\nAtacama mudflows may be equivalent of controversial recent flow deposits on Mars.
\nhttp:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/11\/02\/2730988.htm<\/a>
\n(via @geologynews<\/a>)
\nGeological Society of London on fossil webs found in amber: wow!
\nhttp:\/\/www.geolsoc.org.uk\/gsl\/geoscientist\/geonews\/fossilwebs<\/a>
\n(via @geosociety<\/a>)
\nCoping With Climate Change: Which Societies Will Do Best?
\nhttp:\/\/www.e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2205<\/a>
\n(via @YaleE360<\/a>)
\nSolar power from Sahara a step closer CSP network aims to provide 15% of Euro power by 2050. Ambitious…
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/nov\/01\/solar-power-sahara-europe-desertec#<\/a>
\nPlanet hunt delayed by noise problems with Kepler. Fixable though.
\nhttp:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/091030\/full\/news.2009.1051.html<\/a>
\n(via @NatureNews<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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