The Servant of All (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
For those readers who live outside the United Kingdom, there has been much rain here over the last four days, especially in the county of Cumbria (where my in-laws have a holiday home). A number of people have been evacuated. To see the flooding wrought by the rain, click here . I heard on the radio this morning that a local MP had likened this flooding to ‘a deluge of Biblical proportions.’...
The Sietch Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Burning fossil fuels does a lot more than warm up the earth. The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and widespread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater than previously recognized, according to research results published in this week’s issue of the journal Science. It extends even to remote [...]
Timothy Titus (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Today Christopher Booker has written an article on a new book by Christopher Booker [The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With 'Climate Change' Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History']. Ok, so the guy is going to talk this up then! And the 'alarmism/conspiracy theories' cuts both ways. But even having said all that, again, here are some very salient points. First...
LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Did you know that They Might Be Giants records albums for kids? That are educational? And still rock? If it was inevitable that all the long-standing indie music fans would grow up and have kids, it would follow that all the long-standing indie bands would grow up and have kids, too. And why should either group have to resign themselves to a life of mind-numbing Kidz Bop or Wiggles tunes? Thankfully,...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his colleagues unearthed a bizarre bunch of crocodile remains in the Sahara. The crocs sported snouts and other traits that resembled some modern-day animals and inspired nicknames, including SuperCroc (weighed 8 tons), BoarCroc (upper right), PancakeCroc (lower right), RatCroc, DogCroc and DuckCroc. Credit: Photo by Mike Hettwer, courtesy National Geographic. From Live...
PRI's Studio 360 (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Studio 360 puts evolution to the test. 2009 is Darwin's bicentennial, and this week marks 150 years since "On the Origin of Species" was published. Darwin's descendent, Ruth Padel, writes poems about her famous relative. Spencer Wells gathers DNA around the world to determine where we came from. An amateur paleontologist finds a way to believe in both God and the fossil record. Plus the world...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Paleontologist unveils fossils of BoarCroc, RatCroc, DuckCroc, DogCroc and PancakeCroc Crocodiles' nasty reputation has long involved their toothy, snappish behavior. But back in the day when they were terrorizing dinosaurs, turns out some of them could even gallop across the African savanna, chasing prey with tails a-wagging behind them.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Cedar City » The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has yielded new fossilized treasures that a scientist says could help rewrite what is known about paleontology in North America.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination."
MSNBC.com: Science (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Researchers found that once emptied of a diversity of large animals equaling or surpassing that of Africa's Serengeti, the landscape completely changed. Africa - Mammal - Serengeti - Earth Science - Paleontology
Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A second look a the 4.4-million-year-old primate that has sparked debate about upright walking and what it means to be in the human tribe For such a petite creature, the 1.2-meter-tall "Ardi" (Ardipithecus ramidus) has made big waves in the paleoanthropology world. The momentous find—announced 15 years ago and formally described in Science this October—has deepened academic debates...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and his colleague unveiled fossils of five ancient crocodile species that lived with and, in some cases, hunted down and ate up dinosaurs that once roamed what is now the Sahara Desert.
ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Today we think of paleontology as one of the fun sciences. Nearly everyone seems to like a good dinosaur discovery with its lively debate about what the bones reveal. We enjoy stories about the travels and work of modern dino-hounds, such as Paul Sereno, Sue Hendrickson, and Xu Xing. Paleontologists were not always held in such high regard. In fact, in the late nineteenth century, they were ridiculed...
Sustainablog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
There is a lot of confusion and disinformation circulating today about seeds and the ethics of their commercial sale. Actually a healthy, commercial seed industry is critical for agricultural sustainability. Because seeds are such a fundamental component of the sustainability of our food supply, this area deserves careful thought and accurate information even if you are never going to farm or even...
Naws (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The new Humanist magazine recently announced the nominations for it's 2009 bad faith award; I took a look at it today and it surprised me to find that almost all the people mentioned in the article were people I have previously commented on, I thought it worthwhile to have a little re-cap here in my own modest bastion of anti-faith, so here are the top 10 bad faith-heads who by popular vote have contributed...
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