{"id":4178,"date":"2010-08-22T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2010-08-22T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T12:57:21","slug":"stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/08\/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anneicon.jpg\" alt=\"A post by Anne Jefferson\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" \/><\/span>As well as the two of us, there are many other earth, ocean and space scientists using Twitter these days:  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theAGU\">The AGU<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theAGU\/geo-space-ocean-scientist\/members\">more than 300 on their list.<\/a> Listed below are the most interesting things we came across last week.<\/p>\n<h4>Blogs in motion<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out two new geoblogs: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/leilageologist\">@leilageologist<\/a> will be <a href=\"http:\/\/leilabattison.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/15\/early-days-early-life\/\">writing on Precambrian paleontology<\/a>, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@Polar_Gal\">@Polar_Gal<\/a> will (unsurprisingly) be <a href=\"http:\/\/polar-gal.blogspot.com\">sharing polar science with the world<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to the efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/anatotitan\">@anatotitan<\/a>, the Boneyard Blog Carnival is back! Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/chasmosaurs.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/reopening-boneyard.html\">Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs for the details<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Presenting the firehose of all bloggy firehoses: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogging.org\">http:\/\/scienceblogging.org<\/a>. It features the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/user%2F18270218655642830115%2Flabel%2Fallgeo\">all-geo feed<\/a>, and they are welcoming feedback on how to improve it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Volcanoes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Seismic activity at Eyjafjallajokul &#8216;petering out&#8217;. Eruption not over, but the main risk is now mud flows.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jh7lQ-qBxQMPzPd3Iap7_s3YDBfQD9HKLP6O0\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jh7lQ-qBxQMPzPd3Iap7_s3YDBfQD9HKLP6O0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Great photo-essay of recent lava flows on Hawaii, with the pictures of lava reaching ocean being particularly epic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/month-in-pictures-of-lava-flow.html\">http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/month-in-pictures-of-lava-flow.html<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/month-in-pictures-of-lava-flow.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-NEBDxbE3sk\/TGmmfwzRawI\/AAAAAAAABg0\/akh4ObZRj4w\/s400\/Leigh-Hilbert-Photography.com_5091.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Time-lapse footage of collapse of a recently formed lava bench\/delta on Hawaii.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hvo.wr.usgs.gov\/gallery\/kilauea\/volcanomovies\/movies\/East%20Lae%60apuki%20collapse%20-%20Nov%2028,%202005-small.mov\">http:\/\/hvo.wr.usgs.gov\/gallery\/kilauea\/volcanomovies\/movies\/East%20Lae%60apuki%20collapse%20-%20Nov%2028,%202005-small.mov<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/bench-collapse-movie-clips-for-non.html\">http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/bench-collapse-movie-clips-for-non.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Finally had time to read epic guest post at Eruptions: Mt Etna&#8217;s complex geodynamic setting &amp; eruptive history<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/eruptions\/2010\/08\/mount_etna_-_brief_anatomy_of.php\">http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/eruptions\/2010\/08\/mount_etna_-_brief_anatomy_of.php<\/a><br \/>\n(Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/eruptions\/2010\/08\/mt_etna_-_the_current_dynamics.php\">Part 2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/eruptions\/2010\/08\/etna_week_part_3_-_etnas_volca.php\">Part 3<\/a> in the series.)<\/li>\n<li>Very enjoyable post from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/geotripper>geotripper<\/a> on exploring the Ko&#8217;olau Caldera &#8211; a landscape that generated mega-tsunamis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geotripper.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/dispatches-from-road-exploring-koolau.html\">http:\/\/geotripper.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/dispatches-from-road-exploring-koolau.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Live underwater video feed from top of an active underwater volcano 400 km west of Newport, OR<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/interactiveoceans.washington.edu\/story\/Live+Video\">http:\/\/interactiveoceans.washington.edu\/story\/Live+Video<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/earthinstitute\">@earthinstitute<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda Taps Volcanic &#8220;Exploding Lake&#8221; Kivu for Power. They are using the methane, and putting carbon dioxide and water back in the lake.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/2010\/08\/16\/rwanda-taps-volcano-power-beneath-exploding-lake\/\">http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/2010\/08\/16\/rwanda-taps-volcano-power-beneath-exploding-lake\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lisduarte\">@lisduarte<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/inhabitat\">@inhabitat<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Earthquakes &amp; Tectonics<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Slow-slip events beneath Cascadia help seismologists to map the extent of the locked subduction thrust (capable of generating M 9.0 earthquakes) but may also stress it and make it more likely to rupture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/earth\/seattles-ongoing-silent-quake-lends-clues-to-the-big-one.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1\">http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/earth\/seattles-ongoing-silent-quake-lends-clues-to-the-big-one.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A nice animated map of earthquakes in Iceland associated with eruption of Eyjafjallajokul.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/08\/16\/animated-map-of-earthquakes-in-iceland\/\">http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/08\/16\/animated-map-of-earthquakes-in-iceland\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/flowingdata\">@flowingdata<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>A note on the new San Andreas Fault study that suggests it ruptures with a &lt;100 yr recurrence interval, by one of the co-authors [with link to paper].<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arrowsmith.blog.asu.edu\/2010\/08\/20\/century-long-average-time-intervals-between-earthquake-ruptures-of-the-san-andreas-fault-in-the-carrizo-plain-california\/?triedWebauth=1\">https:\/\/arrowsmith.blog.asu.edu\/2010\/08\/20\/century-long-average-time-intervals-between-earthquake-ruptures-of-the-san-andreas-fault-in-the-carrizo-plain-california<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Demonstrating Earthquake Effects Using Jell-O and Rice Crispy Treats  [then feed students the debris?]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jazinator.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/demonstrating-earthquake-effects-using.html\">http:\/\/jazinator.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/demonstrating-earthquake-effects-using.html<\/a><br \/>\n(by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Jazinator\">@Jazinator<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fossils<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Whatever Happened to Seismosaurus? A tale of reclassification w\/ echos of Torosaurus\/Tricerotops, but in this case it occurred without the media frenzy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/dinosaur\/2010\/08\/17\/whatever-happened-to-seismosaurus\/\">http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/dinosaur\/2010\/08\/17\/whatever-happened-to-seismosaurus\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Following the <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/08\/snowball-earth-no-problem-for-sponges\/>putative Cryogenian sponge fossils announced in Nature<\/a>, news that an even older Cryogenian sponge fossil discovery is having trouble getting published?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/suvratk.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/is-my-fossil-not-spongeworthy.html\">http:\/\/suvratk.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/is-my-fossil-not-spongeworthy.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>(Paleo)climate<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A nearly ice-free Northwest Passage:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=45333&amp;src=twitter-nh\">http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=45333<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Polar_Gal\">@Polar_Gal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAGoddard\">@NASAGoddard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA_EO\">@NASA_EO<\/a>)<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=45333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NWPassageAug10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"NWPassageAug10\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NWPassageAug10.jpg 450w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/NWPassageAug10-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A sobering point: like the amp in &#8216;Spinal Tap&#8217; going to 11, climate change not just loading dice but amplifying extremes:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/18\/climate-extremes-beyond-loaded-dice\/\">http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/18\/climate-extremes-beyond-loaded-dice\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Revkin\">@Revkin<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Get ready for Dust Bowl 2.0 in Southwest, says Richard Seager of Columbia&#8217;s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in :<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-08-12-ucs-article-drought-tracker\/\">http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-08-12-ucs-article-drought-tracker\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/westcenter\">@westcenter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/grist\">@grist<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Tipping point for Greenland ice sheet: 2-7 C. And scientists are having to pay their own airfares to monitor it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/aug\/10\/greenland-ice-sheet-tipping-point\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/aug\/10\/greenland-ice-sheet-tipping-point<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A nice explanation of why Antarctic sea ice is growing in a warmer world -for now.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/08\/100816-global-warming-antarctica-sea-ice-paradox-science-environment\/\">http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/08\/100816-global-warming-antarctica-sea-ice-paradox-science-environment\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stevesilberman\">@stevesilberman<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Water<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The most impressive Pakistan flooding images yet<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=45302\">http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=45302<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA_EO\">@NASA_EO<\/a>)<br \/>\nDonate to help Pakistani flood victims! See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interaction.org\/crisis-list\/interaction-members-respond-floods-pakistan\">InterAction&#8217;s list of aid groups<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Drowning Today, Parched Tomorrow &#8211; Pakistan needs more water supply &amp; storage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/16\/opinion\/16solomon.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/16\/opinion\/16solomon.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thirstygecko\">@thirstygecko<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/columbiawater\">@columbiawater<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Monsoon floods Pakistan, but no rain to be found in drought stricken West Bengal<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/11-districts-drought-hit-no-food-crisis-west-bengal-news-national-kiquEeiejbg.html\">http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/11-districts-drought-hit-no-food-crisis-west-bengal-news-national-kiquEeiejbg.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Human Damaged Ecosystems &amp; Bad Land Management Amplify Killer Floods<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/topicfire.com\/share\/Damaged-Ecosystems-Amplify-Killer-Floods-15232550.html\">http:\/\/topicfire.com\/share\/Damaged-Ecosystems-Amplify-Killer-Floods-15232550.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/geographile\">@geographile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/InvasiveNotes\">@InvasiveNotes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BreakingScience\">@BreakingScience<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Great profile of MIT&#8217;s Charles Harvey and the complex problem of arsenic in Bangladesh&#8217;s groundwater<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/science\/charles-harvey-water-detective-20153\/\">http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/science\/charles-harvey-water-detective-20153\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WaterWired\">@WaterWired<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>New interactive map of 140 big dams planned for the Amazon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalrivers.org\/en\/2010-8-17\/new-online-map-plots-140-large-dams-planned-amazon\">http:\/\/www.internationalrivers.org\/en\/2010-8-17\/new-online-map-plots-140-large-dams-planned-amazon<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WaterWired\">@WaterWired<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rivrchik\">@rivrchik<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/IntlRivers\">@IntlRivers<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>check out <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NatGeoSociety\">@NatGeoSociety<\/a>&#8216;s Water Footprint Calculator. In the US, most water consumption is for food production.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/freshwater\/water-footprint-calculator\/\">http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/freshwater\/water-footprint-calculator\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rivrchik\">@rivrchik<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/worldresources\">@worldresources<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Environmental<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Report finds ~80 percent of the spilled oil is still in the Gulf of Mexico, in contrast to US govt claims.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/earth\/report-nearly-80-percent-of-spilled-oil-still-threatens-gulf.html\">http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/earth\/report-nearly-80-percent-of-spilled-oil-still-threatens-gulf.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Discovery_Earth\">@Discovery_Earth<\/a>)<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Deep Sea News reports definitive evidence of a deepwater oil plume.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2010\/08\/9628\/\">http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2010\/08\/9628\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuel. From the by-products, thank goodness! Provides 30% more power than ethanol biofuel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/aug\/17\/whisky-biobuel-scotland\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/aug\/17\/whisky-biobuel-scotland<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Interesting: broadly distributed offshore wind turbine network can largely solve intermittency problems<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/029476_wind_turbines_power.html\">http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/029476_wind_turbines_power.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/argillic\">@argillic<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Europe&#8217;s Brisk Energy Transition: 18.4% of total power generation now from renewables. Almost encouraging&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/green.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/20\/europes-brisk-energy-transition\/\">http:\/\/green.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/20\/europes-brisk-energy-transition\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimesscience\">@nytimesscience<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Appeals court decision: mud from logging roads is pollution under the Clean Water Act. Are roads point sources that require a permit?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peninsuladailynews.com\/article\/20100817\/NEWS\/100819980\/appeals-court-decision-8212-mud-from-logging-roads-is-pollution\">http:\/\/www.peninsuladailynews.com\/article\/20100817\/NEWS\/100819980\/appeals-court-decision-8212-mud-from-logging-roads-is-pollution<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kjmcguire\">@kjmcguire<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Planets<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>10s of 1000s of mud volcanoes found on Mars? Prob been inactive for a couple of billion years, but still interesting<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news201452152.html\">http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news201452152.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>General Geology<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/callanbentley\">Callan Bentley<\/a> is back in the geoblogosphere with a bang: as well as a lovely Friday fold (the first in a new weekly series),  he also gives us the gorgeous deformed Purgatory congolomerate:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mountainbeltway.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/20\/friday-fold-samaria-gorge-crete\/\">http:\/\/mountainbeltway.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/20\/friday-fold-samaria-gorge-crete\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mountainbeltway.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/20\/purgatory-conglomerate\/\">http:\/\/mountainbeltway.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/20\/purgatory-conglomerate\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fantastic research blogging at Hindered Settling on the complexity of sinuous channel deposits in three dimensions<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zsylvester.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/complexity-of-sinuous-channel-deposits.html\">http:\/\/zsylvester.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/complexity-of-sinuous-channel-deposits.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nice article on the tricky business of reconstructing Earth&#8217;s redox \/ oxygen history: has the Great Oxygenation Event been overstated?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.wustl.edu\/news\/Pages\/21010.aspx\">http:\/\/news.wustl.edu\/news\/Pages\/21010.aspx<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ComplexLifeNAI\">@ComplexLifeNAI<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Fascinating: using prehistoric obsidian tools to trace old trade and migration routes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inlportal.inl.gov\/portal\/server.pt?open=514&amp;objID=1269&amp;mode=2&amp;featurestory=DA_164833\">https:\/\/inlportal.inl.gov\/portal\/server.pt?open=514&amp;objID=1269&amp;mode=2&amp;featurestory=DA_164833<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Video of frazil ice at Yosemite. Makes for very dynamic river behaviour. Amazing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/24\/frazil-ice-fascinati.html\">http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/24\/frazil-ice-fascinati.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/drjerque\">@drjerque<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The hidden geological history of WWI: the military advantage of holding chalk highlands in N France<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu\/2010\/08\/15\/the-military-advantage-of-holding-the-upper-cretaceous-chalk-highlands\/\">http:\/\/woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu\/2010\/08\/15\/the-military-advantage-of-holding-the-upper-cretaceous-chalk-highlands\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/morphosaurus\">@morphosaurus<\/a> gets no response to her letter to the Governor of Wyoming over the potential sale of parts of Grand Teton National Park. Perhaps we should all <a href=\"http:\/\/my.npca.org\/site\/MessageViewer?em_id=1341.0&amp;pw_id=1621\">send a letter to Congress &amp; Interior Secretary Salazar<\/a>?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagesofsuccession.com\/2010\/08\/disappointment-peak.html\">http:\/\/www.stagesofsuccession.com\/2010\/08\/disappointment-peak.html<\/a><\/ul>\n<h4>Interesting Miscellaney<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>In the dust-up between Ray &#8216;simulate the brain in 20 years&#8217; Kurzweil and anyone who knows anything about biology, this comparison between his rhetoric and that of geoengineering advocates is rather telling.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fistfulofscience.com\/2010\/08\/17\/what-ray-kurzweil-and-geoengineering-have-in-common\/\">http:\/\/fistfulofscience.com\/2010\/08\/17\/what-ray-kurzweil-and-geoengineering-have-in-common\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tvjrennie\">@tvjrennie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jrminkel\">@jrminkel<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>An imaginative visualisation tool &#8211; BBC Dimensions, lets you map notable events, thing and places onto your locale. For example, the Pakistan Floods are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howbigreally.com\/#st_louis\">pretty much the length of the Mississippi.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/howbigreally.com\/\">http:\/\/howbigreally.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/infobeautiful\">@infobeautiful<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Some interesting musings on the link between basic research and useful technology at Shatsky Blog (complete with gratuitous Titanic reference)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeonshatsky.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/saving-1522-lives-on-titanic-with.html\">http:\/\/lifeonshatsky.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/saving-1522-lives-on-titanic-with.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jackiefloyd\">@jackiefloyd<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting things we came across on the internet last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/08\/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}