{"id":4584,"date":"2010-10-24T11:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T16:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2010-10-24T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T16:28:15","slug":"stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/10\/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-14\/","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>DonorsChoose Update<\/h4>\n<p>We&#8217;re wrapping up another spectacular week for supporting Earth Science in the schools.. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=73846&#038;category=198&#038;max=25\">Highly Allochthonous drive<\/a> has now raised over $1000 from 14 donors and touched the lives of 589 students. Among the projects you helped complete this week were both of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/10\/from-weather-detectives-to-water-warriors\/\">water warriors<\/a>&#8221; projects I featured on Thursday. If you are looking for another project in need of help, how about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=422061&#038;challengeid=73846\">giving sets of minerals and rocks to a 6th grade classroom<\/a> in New York City? Or supporting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=404410&#038;challengeid=73846\">classroom that wants to buy some books of beautiful landscape photography<\/a> by Michael Collier? Huge thanks to all who have given and spread the word. <\/p>\n<h4>General Geology<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Erosion of the geology curriculum: fewer requirements attract more majors, but they have fewer options when they graduate&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceantiscience.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/erosion-of-geology-curriculum.html\">http:\/\/scienceantiscience.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/erosion-of-geology-curriculum.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/squawky\">@squawky<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Gorgeous! A post from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/UncoveredEarth\">@UncoveredEarth<\/a>on &#8220;Ways to play with rocks: Make beautiful art!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uncoveredearth.com\/2010\/10\/23\/expressions-in-stone-bonseki\/\">http:\/\/uncoveredearth.com\/2010\/10\/23\/expressions-in-stone-bonseki\/<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Geotripper explains why geologists might bypass Gotthard Tunnel  Wld be different story if it was faced with Perspex!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geotripper.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/gotthard-base-tunnel-breakthrough-why.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">http:\/\/geotripper.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/gotthard-base-tunnel-breakthrough-why.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>New study claims subducting slabs do not transfer water deep into Earth&#8217;s mantle. So where does it all go?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news206625005.html\">http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news206625005.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Water<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Whoa: seasonal changes in onland water storage show up as changes in the Earth&#8217;s gravity field!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=46472\">http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=46472<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cbdawson\">@cbdawson<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan floods turned back clock &amp; turned off lights. Whole villages have been replaced by boulder fields.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-11568963\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-11568963<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/geographile\">@geographile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/richardallaway\">@richardallaway<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Drought, American Style:  Lake Mead reaches record low: average American fails to see the problem<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/JfleckAtInkstain\/~3\/W2TR1LSWn2Y\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/JfleckAtInkstain\/~3\/W2TR1LSWn2Y\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thai Flooding Is Worst in Decades<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/22\/world\/asia\/22thai.html?_r=1\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/22\/world\/asia\/22thai.html?_r=1<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Volcanoes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Devastation and Recovery at Mt. St. Helens  timelapse satellite images for three decades<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/sthelens.php\">http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/sthelens.php<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Eaterofsun\">@Eaterofsun<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Earthquakes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting: study of Haiti #eq damage patterns shows strong topographic effect on shaking intensity  )<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/newsroom\/article.asp?ID=2617\">http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/newsroom\/article.asp?ID=2617<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tpenews\">@tpenews<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Fossils<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Lyuba, an infant woolly mammoth on display in the Mammoths and Mastodons traveling exhibit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsc.org\/lsc\/ourexperiences\/mammoths\">http:\/\/www.lsc.org\/lsc\/ourexperiences\/mammoths<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/307f\">http:\/\/twitpic.com\/307f<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/laelaps\">@laelaps<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Planets<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Last Year&#8217;s Moonshot Splashed Up Lots Of Water: 41 gallons.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=130737378&#038;f=1007\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=130737378&#038;f=1007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BadAstronomer\">@BadAstronomer<\/a> has a cool new gallery of exoplanets, with <em>real<\/em> pictures of alien worlds!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/10\/18\/gallery-of-exoplanets-real-pictures-of-alien-worlds\/\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/10\/18\/gallery-of-exoplanets-real-pictures-of-alien-worlds\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheril_\">@Sheril_<\/a> )\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>(Paleo)climate<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>One-third of the most extreme El Nino events in last 500 years occurred after 1940!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/2242tp4610562j55\/\">http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/2242tp4610562j55\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KHayhoe\">@KHayhoe<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Climate change threatens emerging superpowers, warns report. SE Asia seems particularly vulnerable&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/oct\/21\/climate-change-superpowers\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/oct\/21\/climate-change-superpowers<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/EcoTechDude\">@EcoTechDude<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Environmental<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Optimistic proclamations about the Gulf of Mexico being free of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/gulf-oil-spill\/index.ssf\/2010\/10\/massive_stretches_of_weathered.html\">keep on being trumped by reality<\/a>. There is some &#8211; apparently serious &#8211; speculation that changing weather conditions cause it to flip between floating at the surface, and beneath it. Meanwhile, it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/deepseanews.com\/2010\/10\/so-much-monitoring-in-the-gulf-but-no-samples-in-sight\/\">many marine scientists are not being given access<\/a> to all the samples we&#8217;re told are being taken to monitor the break-up and environmental impact of the spill.<\/li>\n<li>Louisiana sand berms are still being built &#8211; but little oil captured &amp; potential environmental side-effects are very bad<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/22\/us\/22berms.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/22\/us\/22berms.html?_r=1&#038;hp<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/zzsylvester\">@zzsylvester<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Dare I say it &#8211; an example of successful framing? In Kansas, climate skeptics embrace clean energy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/19\/science\/earth\/19fossil.html\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/19\/science\/earth\/19fossil.html<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Otter recovery cutest manifestation of cleaning up of UK waterways in last few decades.  )<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/uk-11562679\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/uk-11562679<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCscience\">@BBCscience<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Interesting Miscellaney<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Sounds like a challenge! Soil-scientist-turned-radio-reporter explains how to create a 1 min story<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.agu.org\/sciencecommunication\/2010\/10\/20\/one-minute-science\/\">http:\/\/blog.agu.org\/sciencecommunication\/2010\/10\/20\/one-minute-science\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theAGU\">@theAGU<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>The only book prize in Britain dedicated to popular science fails to find a sponsor and this year&#8217;s award was the last prize.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/endangered-award-the-science-book-prize-2111355.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/endangered-award-the-science-book-prize-2111355.html<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquelynGill\">@JacquelynGill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PD_Smith\">@PD_Smith<\/a>)\n<\/li>\n<li>Eight months of science blogger interviews by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tdelene\">@tdelene<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencetrio.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/17\/eight-months-of-science-blogger-interviews\/\">http:\/\/sciencetrio.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/17\/eight-months-of-science-blogger-interviews\/<\/a><br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BoraZ\">@BoraZ<\/a> )\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DonorsChoose Update We&#8217;re wrapping up another spectacular week for supporting Earth Science in the schools.. The Highly Allochthonous drive has now raised over $1000 from 14 donors and touched the lives of 589 students. Among the projects you helped complete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/10\/stuff-we-linked-to-on-twitter-last-week-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}