I’m sorry, but in my humble opinion Discovery Earth has got it sadly wrong. They recently published their ten most spectacular places on Earth. OK, so anyone publishing their top ten of anything is heading for a fall (and I’m about to do it myself, so who am I to talk?) but I have [...]
I’m suffering sticky key syndrome after spilling a glass of the red stuff over my keyboard. I came across this little beauty by way of The Inquisitr. Would make a fine replacement lappy and very useful for the field. I want!
Some specs for the General Dynamics Itronix GD6000 from their website…
# FULLY-RUGGED NOTEBOOK RELIABILITY — [...]
Kuril Islands M7.3 ‘quake recorded at Keele University – part of the UK Seismometers for [...]
Cows are rubbish at detecting earthquakes thereby kiboshing the chances of advanced bovine earthquake prediction arrays.
Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences had fitted “advanced GPS sensors and animal monitoring devices” to eight cattle. They noted that during Sweden’s December 16 earthquake last year “only two of the eight cows bearing the monitoring equipment [...]
By way of Looking for Detachment, The Ethical Palaeonologist, Clastic Detritus, Highly Allochthonous, and ReBecca’s Blog, the countries and states I’ve visited:
visited 24 states (10.6%)
Favourite country: Chile
Favourite city: La Paz, Bolivia
visited 5 states (10%)
Whilst the world map is ‘genuine’, the US map is a bit of a cheat. I spent a month in Colorado, but [...]
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