Italy in Geological News

Jun

28

2010

First a volcano-related item: How did the victims of the Plinean Eruption of Vesuvius die – a summary from io9, of an article assessing how the victims of the Vesuvius eruption died. It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with how freaking scary pyroclastic flows are that they died from being flash-cooked by ...
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earthquake · stoopid · volcano

More HAARP conspiracy nuttiness

Jan

21

2010

Chavez says US ‘weapon’ caused Haiti quake Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a ‘tectonic weapon’ to induce the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week. And: Venezuelan media have reported that the earthquake “may be associated with the project called HAARP, a ...
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conspiracy theory · stoopid

Science fiction makes you godless and evil

Jan

6

2010

Well, I guess if you have a fundamental problem with science in general, science fiction becomes a sort of terrifying, wordy mass of horror. I’m waiting for this guy’s next installment, when he attacks the fantasy genre for being polytheistic and glorifying witchcraft. And elves. Because everyone knows that elves are really just thinly disguised ...
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creationism · stoopid

Even real Mayans think the 2012 Apocalypse is BS

Oct

13

2009

2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist It also sounds like the Mayans who aren’t too busy trying not to starve to death are also getting very annoyed about the whole thing. Considering this is basically the white people stealing a bit of their culture and then shellacking it with the Christian idea ...
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2012 · stoopid

Within the heart of every mountain, there slumbers a pyramid.

Aug

5

2009

I’ve still got a cold, so I’m going to keep this pretty short and sweet. I’m having a hard time writing anything even vaguely coherent. But here we go. From the people who brought us pyramids in Bosnia: Pyramids in Romania? No. That was easy. Okay, not quite that short and sweet. Looking at the ...
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Monkeywrenching geology

Jul

30

2009

Monkeywrenching the Batholiths I saw this item on Pharyngula, and it just kind of blew me away. I mean, you hear about animal rights groups going after biologists all the time, but I’d always thought at least academic geologists were safe from this kind of interference with their experiments. There were several things about the ...
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