Tag Archives: science
William Boyd Dawkins & the Victorian Science of Cave Hunting
Three Men in a Cavern William Boyd Dawkins is an immensely fascinating character, who dominated British geology throughout his time, and but is usually forgotten at present. He acquired a professorship and a knighthood, together with many prime awards, and … Continue reading
Atmospheric science: Energy and precipitation
Nature Geoscience 9, 861 (2016). doi:10.1038/ngeo2846 Author: Aaron Donohoe The latitude of the tropical rainbelt is constrained by the energy balance between hemispheres. An expansion of this theory that includes longitudinal variations of atmospheric heating can predict regional changes in … Continue reading
Copyright: promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts by preventing access to 105-year-old quarry maps
In my recent preprint on the incompleteness and distortion of sauropod neck specimens, I?discuss three well-known sauropod specimens in detail, and show that they are not as well known as we think they are. One of them is the Giraffatitan … Continue reading
World-first science expedition to explore South American volcanoes
A team of volcanologists will leave on a trip of a lifetime next month when they undertake a four-month expedition exploring over 15 volcanoes along the South American Andes. Dr Ian Schipper, an expert in igneous processes from Victoria University … Continue reading
City of Science: rebuilt where it was
(ANSAmed) – Naples, may ‘ 09 ‘Citta’ della Scienza will rebuild there where I was, will be smaller, a few thousand square meters and, at the same time there is the draft that speaks for twenty years: an artificial beach … Continue reading
Even Italy’s lottery for the city of science
(ANSAmed) – Naples, 17 Apr – the Senate Special Committee has expressed an opinion favourable to the decree for the identification of national lotteries in 2013. The reported choice of Rapporteur Alexander civic Maran. With a recommendation, explains the Agency … Continue reading