{"id":4397,"date":"2010-09-12T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2010-09-12T04:32:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T09:32:15","slug":"stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/09\/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-9\/","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><\/p>\n<h4>Blogs in motion<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>All star geo-tweeter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cbdawson\">@cbdawson<\/a> has decided to join the blogosophere with <a href=\"http:\/\/cbdawson.com\/blog\/\">Point Source<\/a>, quaquaversal musings on the geosciences and public information.<\/li>\n<li>Deep Sea News has welcomed <a href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/author\/rickmac\/\">Rick Macpherson<\/a> into the aquatic fold.<?li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Earthquakes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Much of the quake-related tweeting this week has understandably been about the Darfield earthquake, and have been <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/09\/tectonics-of-the-m7-earthquake-near-christchurch-new-zealand\/\">added to Chris&#8217;s post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A nice validation of GPS in hazard assessment: following February&#8217;s magnitude 8.8 in Chile, the largest offsets occurred where GPS had indicated the most strain building up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100908\/full\/news.2010.456.html\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100908\/full\/news.2010.456.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NatureNews\">@NatureNews<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The same event also validated the reliability of Twitter in distributing accurate information after the disaster &#8211; analysis showed that false reports were challenged far more often than accurate ones<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/08\/18\/twitter-after-a-disaster-is-it-reliable\/\">http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/08\/18\/twitter-after-a-disaster-is-it-reliable\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CPPGeophysics\">@CPPGeophysics<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Volcanoes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>An excellently written and photographed feature by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alexwitze\">@alexwitze<\/a> on volcanoes in Iceland (glaciovolcanism):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/feature\/id\/63177\/title\/Fire_%2Bamp;_Ice\">http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/feature\/id\/63177\/title\/Fire_%2Bamp;_Ice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Video footage of ash clouds erupting from Sinabung, Indonesia &#8211; Erik Klemetti is, as ever, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/blogs\/eruptions\/search?q=Sinabung\">keeping tabs on this one<\/a> for us.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mr6p1Inkfm8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mr6p1Inkfm8<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Webcam shots of Ruapehu crater lake at the moment a tephra dam collapsed, generating a lahar mud flow, in 2007.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gns.cri.nz\/Home\/News-and-Events\/Media-Releases\/Dam-cam-films-Crater-Lake-outburst\">http:\/\/www.gns.cri.nz\/Home\/News-and-Events\/Media-Releases\/Dam-cam-films-Crater-Lake-outburst<\/a><br \/>\n (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/ruapehu-lahar-information.html\">Dave Petley<\/a>, of course)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>(Paleo)climate<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Brilliant opening sentence to a news article about using seafloor creatures to reconstruct West Antarctic ice history: &#8220;Bryozoans make unlikely prophets of doom.&#8221; These prophets suggest that the West Antarctic ice sheet may have been at least partially melted in last long interglacial, 125,000 years ago.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/sep\/05\/climate-change-ice-caps-antarctica\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/sep\/05\/climate-change-ice-caps-antarctica<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kejames\">@kejames<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Proper corrections for isostatic rebound suggest that ice sheets are only losing mass in response the anthropogenic climate change &#8216;fast&#8217;, rather than &#8216;bloody fast&#8217;.  Apparently south Greenland is subsiding because rebound on North America is sucking away the mantle beneath it. That&#8217;s pretty cool.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news203066251.html\">http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news203066251.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Two posts on climate sensitivity. A detailed look at climate sensitivity from Skeptical Science and what&#8217;s the most important number to combat climate change?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/detailed-look-at-climate-sensitivity.html\">http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/detailed-look-at-climate-sensitivity.html<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=right-number-to-combat-climate-change\">http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=right-number-to-combat-climate-change<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dbielo\">@dbielo<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>How Should We Think About Extreme Weather Events? by Pew Center&#8217;s Jay Gulledge<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewclimate.org\/blog\/gulledgej\/how-should-we-think-about-extreme-weather-events\">http:\/\/www.pewclimate.org\/blog\/gulledgej\/how-should-we-think-about-extreme-weather-events<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NEMWIUpperMiss\">@NEMWIUpperMiss<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>What are climate models? How do they work? A beginner&#8217;s guide:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ei.columbia.edu\/2010\/08\/26\/a-beginners-guide-to-climate-models\/\">http:\/\/blogs.ei.columbia.edu\/2010\/08\/26\/a-beginners-guide-to-climate-models\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rivrchik\">@rivrchik<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/earthinstitute\">@earthinstitute<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Lonnie Thompson in Papua Watches Glacier Melt Beneath His Feet<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/n.pr\/ckDPJy\">http:\/\/n.pr\/ckDPJy<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mareserinitatis\">@mareserinitatis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nprnews\">@nprnews<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Two pieces on the melting of Collier Glacier, Oregon&#8217;s Largest (and in Anne&#8217;s PhD field area)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geology.com\/press-release\/collier-glacier\/\">http:\/\/geology.com\/press-release\/collier-glacier\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoor-science.com\/?p=800\">http:\/\/www.outdoor-science.com\/?p=800<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/glacial_till\">@glacial_till<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/VivRaper\">@VivRaper<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Water<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Twisted History: The Wily Mississippi Cuts New Paths  [A lyrical ode to the powerful but fettered river, made even better with wonderful historical maps]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/inside\/2010\/07\/14\/128511984\/twisted-history-the-wily-mississippi-cuts-new-paths\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/inside\/2010\/07\/14\/128511984\/twisted-history-the-wily-mississippi-cuts-new-paths<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nprscience\">@nprscience<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Dendritic Drainage, Braided Channels and Self-Similarity  [Great fluvial teaching images]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/epod.usra.edu\/blog\/2010\/09\/dendritic-drainage-braided-channels-and-self-similarity.html\">http:\/\/epod.usra.edu\/blog\/2010\/09\/dendritic-drainage-braided-channels-and-self-similarity.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/EarthPic\">@EarthPic<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Flooding in Pakistan is not over yet and Pakistan will be in need  for a long time. See why in  photos<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/09\/pakistan_in_need.html\">http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/09\/pakistan_in_need.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>NPR: Why We&#8217;ve Given Less To Pakistan&#8217;s Flood Victims [Have you given?]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129605789\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129605789<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Environmental<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists find Gulf oilspill settled to seafloor in thick layer that stretches for miles:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129782098&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1025\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129782098&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1025<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/climatebrad\">@climatebrad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/craigtimes\">@craigtimes<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>The 8 failures that caused Gulf oil spill, according the BP&#8217;s report on the disaster. It excludes the 9th failure: of so poorly overseeing an operation that 8 things could fail at once because they weren&#8217;t properly checked or tested.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19425-the-eight-failures-that-caused-the-gulf-oil-spill.html\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19425-the-eight-failures-that-caused-the-gulf-oil-spill.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newscientist\">@newscientist<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the biggest myth in the ocean today? Maximum (un)Sustainable Yield &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernfriedscience.com\/?p=7409\">http:\/\/www.southernfriedscience.com\/?p=7409<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SFriedScientist\">@SFriedScientist<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Is there really a sustainable Orange Roughy fishery or is Lowes Foods guilty of greenwashing? [Yup, they are (poorly)  greenwashing.]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernfriedscience.com\/?p=6979\">http:\/\/www.southernfriedscience.com\/?p=6979<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SFriedScientist\">@SFriedScientist<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sheril_\">Sheril Kirshenbaum<\/a> on Ocean Acidifi-WHAT?!  What we don&#8217;t know, don&#8217;t understand, and often ignore can hurt us<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2010\/09\/08\/ocean-acidifi-what\/\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2010\/09\/08\/ocean-acidifi-what\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>How Big Oil will stop my kids from driving electric cars. Also why: because electric cars remove dependence on filling stations.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/sep\/10\/children-electric-cars\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/sep\/10\/children-electric-cars<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WanderingGaia\">@WanderingGaia<\/a>, guinea pig poo is great for making biogas and fertiliser.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wanderinggaia.com\/2010\/09\/05\/guinea-pig-power\">http:\/\/wanderinggaia.com\/2010\/09\/05\/guinea-pig-power<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Ko1wJUj26s\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Ko1wJUj26s<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>A challenge to anyone who ever used the phrase &#8220;tree-hugger&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/underthebanyan.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/05\/a-challenge-to-anyone-who-ever-used-the-phrase-tree-hugger\/\">http:\/\/underthebanyan.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/05\/a-challenge-to-anyone-who-ever-used-the-phrase-tree-hugger\/<\/a><br \/>\n(by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shanahanmike\">@shanahanmike<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PaoloViscardi\">@PaoloViscardi<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Planets<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Results from the Phoenix Lander suggest that Mars may have been recently active, geologically and hydrologically. Astounding, if true<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arizonageology.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/ua-phoenix-lander-team-mars-recently.html\">http:\/\/arizonageology.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/ua-phoenix-lander-team-mars-recently.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Geoblogfeed\">@Geoblogfeed<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Even more astounding is the notion that we might be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/09\/glint-exo-oceans\/\">spot the reflections of oceans on planets outside the solar system<\/a> and possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/23931\">volcanic eruptions too<\/a>, if they&#8217;re big enough<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fossils<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of palaeontological goodness in the 1st edition of the rebooted Boneyard.  Kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/anatotitan\">@anatotitan<\/a> for providing the boot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chasmosaurs.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/boneyard-21.html?spref=tw\">http:\/\/chasmosaurs.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/boneyard-21.html?spref=tw<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>General Geology<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A beautiful story of geological inspiration by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Dhunterauthor\">@Dhunterauthor<\/a>: The Crash of Continents, the Whisper of Water<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/crash-of-continents-whisper-of-water.html\">http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/crash-of-continents-whisper-of-water.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Video of a debris flow of cars (anthropogenic megaclasts!) and flooding in Antrani, Italy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/italian-debris-flood-video.html\">http:\/\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/italian-debris-flood-video.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/clasticdetritus\">@clasticdetritus<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Two footprints on a 4 million year journey from the Earth to the Moon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2010\/09\/02\/129609085\/one-small-step-for-man\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2010\/09\/02\/129609085\/one-small-step-for-man<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Oops. 11 September, 1881: The landslide of Elm: An artificial disaster<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/historyofgeology.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/11-september-1881-landslide-of-elm.html\">http:\/\/historyofgeology.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/11-september-1881-landslide-of-elm.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t wait to read the &#8216;encyclopedia of the Cretaceous&#8217; &#8211; a detailed core record from a 2.5 km borehole into a Chinese paleolake.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100908\/full\/467150a.html\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100908\/full\/467150a.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NatureNews\">@NatureNews<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>The see-saw intellectual battle continues: last week nanodiamonds from Younger Dryas &#8216;Impact&#8217; debunked; this week they&#8217;re found in Greenland ice sheet<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tw.physorg.com\/203178758\">http:\/\/tw.physorg.com\/203178758<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Interesting Miscellaney<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting musings on why the &quot;draw a scientist&quot; test of stereotypes is of limited value.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordsofscience.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/stereotypes-behind-labcoat.html\">http:\/\/wordsofscience.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/stereotypes-behind-labcoat.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dr_andy_russell\">@dr_andy_russell<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Model suggests a few bad referees can undermine peer-review. No accommodation for editor browbeating though.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/43691\">http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/43691<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SmallCasserole\">@SmallCasserole<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Watch: Tom Lehrer&#8217;s Elements song according to Google Instant. Instant search now *totally* justified, even if Chris didn&#8217;t think that typing and pressing return for your search results was especially slow&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgFh6IAQoDA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgFh6IAQoDA<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alicebell\">@alicebell<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Babbage for the 21st century &#8211; nano-mechanical computation for high temperature applications  )<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19440-steampunk-chip-takes-the-heat.html\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19440-steampunk-chip-takes-the-heat.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/newscientist\">@newscientist<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Cockroach and locust brains are a rich source of antibiotics powerful enough to tackle MRSA<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-11182437\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-11182437<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tvjrennie\">@tvjrennie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mocost\">@mocost<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogs in motion All star geo-tweeter @cbdawson has decided to join the blogosophere with Point Source, quaquaversal musings on the geosciences and public information. 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