Underwater fossil digging!

Today I went with a group of paleontologists from the museum to a river fossil site. We used SCUBA gear to collect the fossils, even though the river was only about 5 feet deep at that point. It. Was. Awesome. The river was teaming with life. Huge numbers of small freshwater clams, sunfish, mosquitofish, other fish I couldn't ID, invertebrates, and plants. It was so neat to be finding several ...

sunlight management

... carbon dioxide, doing this directly reduces their efficiency. Not only that, but the resources we'd need to implement any of the sunlight reduction plans would use energy, which means burning more fossil fuels (unless you're going to build dedicated nuclear plants specifically for this purpose). How do you seed the atmosphere with sulfur dioxide without spending jet fuel to do it? We do have ...

2008 Small World Competition

...) 13th Prize — Milan Kosanovic Specimen: Recrystallized Vitamin C 14th Prize — Charles Krebs Specimen: Closterium, diatoms and Spirogyra 15th Prize — Wim van Egmond Specimen: Radiolarians, fossil shells 16th Prize — Richard Bulgin Specimen: Transfected fibroblast with lamellipodia 17th Prize — Monica Pons Specimen: Arabidopsis thaliana root 18th Prize — Dr. Tamily Weissman Specimen: “Brainbow” ...

...--about my article from last month. "Incidentally, your seal story got 8800 hits on our website yesterday!  (That's nearly a month's worth!)  You're famous!  We think it was because of the new fossil find -- people searched "missing link earth" and got your story.  :-)" Even if most of those people didn't read my article (I doubt they did), that still means a boatload did. Hurray! I talked to ...

Missing link still missing?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Missing-Link-Scientists-In-New-York-Unveil-Fossil-Of-Lemur-Monkey-Hailed-As-Mans-Earliest-Ancestor/Article/200905315284582?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15284582_Missing_Link%3A_Scientists_In_New_York_Unveil_Fossil_Of_Lemur_Monkey_Hailed_As_Mans_Earliest_Ancestor Personally I don't see why it is any more significant than many other ...

Ok my exuberance for Biology /Archaeobiology is restored :-)

"Scientists hail stunning fossil" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8057465.stm

Ebay & GothAuctions

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Ebay & GothAuctions

Ebay auctions: ENDING TONIGHT through the 22nd! Brands: Xhilaration, Old Navy, Charlotte Russe, Monster (Hot Topic), Dawls, Fossil, and more! Catch them all here ! GothAuctions: Ends 21st through 22nd Brands: Tripp, Mossimo, SO, Blue's Clues, Weezer, White Stag, Old Navy, etc! Take a peek here and bid while you still can before I list them on Ebay!

Ebay & GothAuctions

Ebay auctions: ENDING TONIGHT through the 22nd! Brands: Xhilaration, Old Navy, Charlotte Russe, Monster (Hot Topic), Dawls, Fossil, and more! Catch them all here ! GothAuctions: Ends 21st through 22nd Brands: Tripp, Mossimo, SO, Blue's Clues, Weezer, White Stag, Old Navy, etc! Take a peek here and bid while you still can before I list them on Ebay!

Ebay & GothAuctions

Ebay auctions: ENDING TONIGHT through the 22nd! Brands: Xhilaration, Old Navy, Charlotte Russe, Monster (Hot Topic), Dawls, Fossil, and more! Catch them all here ! GothAuctions: Ends 21st through 22nd Brands: Tripp, Mossimo, SO, Blue's Clues, Weezer, White Stag, Old Navy, etc! Take a peek here and bid while you still can before I list them on Ebay!