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Category: Paleontology
To answer that question briefly, it is really really old if you mean "how old are the oldest rocks that are exposed by the Grand Canyon," and it is probably just a few million years old (5 or 6 by some estimates) if you mean...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:23 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Notes from the North Country
First there was the question of Goldilocks, a Very Cold Winter Night, And a Strange Sense of Empty-ness. Then, there was The Mystery of The Returned Outboard Motor. Which turned into The Mystery of the Missing Boat Motor Deepens. Then there was the complexification described...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:03 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
This is a continuation of a discussion on the role of Global Warming in the decline of moose populations in Minnesota. It is also a discussion of Global Warming denialism....
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:51 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
Minnesota moose experts generally agree that global warming is forcing the southern edge of the distribution of the moose northward into Canada, threatening this important US population of this ginormous deer species. Global warming denialists insist that this is the moose's fault, and has nothing...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:02 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Notes from the North Country
When the wind stiffens it blows the fog off the lake and replaces it with a biting spray. And when the wind slackens the sound of air rushing though the leaves and around the cabins is replaced with the crashing of the white caps that...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:07 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Climate
We have had a cool summer here in Minnesota, and this has brought out the miscreants who for their own reasons do not want to get on board with the simple, well demonstrated scientific fact that global temperatures have risen, that we humans are the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:57 AM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Notes from the North Country
A very interesting day. I got word in the AM that Derick would be digging a trench across the Cabin property tomorrow, and as an archaeologist I could not possibly skip that, so I ripped a rotten board out of the porch as fast as...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Notes from the North Country
When I am in the mood to fish, and I'm at the lake, I pay special attention to the water....
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:30 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Notes from the North Country
... or, maybe gets shallower. I'm not sure....
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Jimmy James Bettencourt
If you have not yet read Goldilocks, a Very Cold Winter Night, And a Strange Sense of Empty-ness then please do so now. Only then will you have the background necessary to understand and appreciate The Mystery of the Returned Outboard Motor. As told to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:35 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Uncertain Principles 11.08.2009
Neurotopia 11.09.2009
The Primate Diaries 11.09.2009
Stoat 11.07.2009
Tomorrow's Table 11.07.2009
