Explosive interaction of impact melt and seawater following the Chicxulub impact event
Monday 30 March 2020
Explosive interaction of impact melt and seawater following the Chicxulub impact event 30MAY2020
Sunday 29 March 2020
Volcanism as a prime cause of mass extinction 29MAR2020
Volcanism as a prime cause of mass extinction
Bored in quarantine? - Participate in NASA long-duration space travel study 29MAR2020
Bored in quarantine? - Participate in NASA long-duration space travel study
Friday 27 March 2020
Fossil, Geology, and Science Video Collections 27MAR2020
Fossil, Geology, and Science Video Collections
Thursday 26 March 2020
Free Online Paleontology (And Other) Books Courtesy Johns Hopkins University Press 26MAR2020
Free Online Paleontology (And Other) Books Courtesy Johns Hopkins University Press
Although this is off-topic, thought people on list still might
appreciate it given the circumstances.
Johns Hopkins University Press has made available online books
for free for this period of cancelled or remote classes. Some
paleontology books, of which each chapter can be downloaded
free as a PDF are:
Birds of Stone: Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs
Luis M. Chiappe and Meng Qingjin, 2016
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48019
The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution
Sankar Chatterjee, 2015
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/39108
Transylvanian Dinosaurs
David B. Weishampel and Coralia-Maria Jianu, 2011
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/1874
The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution
Annalisa Berta, 2017
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56360
The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution
Hans-Dieter Sues, 2019
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67468
Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth
edited by Lars Werdelin, H. Gregory McDonald, and
Christopher A. Shaw, 2018
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58589
Other free books by Johns Hopkins University Press
can be found at:
https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=browse&limit=publisher_id:1
Yours,
Paul H.
Sunday 22 March 2020
Interesting and Sub-noteworthy Preprints from the arXiv Preprint Archive 22MAR2020
Interesting and Sub-noteworthy Preprints from the arXiv Preprint Archive
Some interesting and sub-noteworthy preprints from the arXiv preprint archive.
Barnes, J.W., O'Brien, D.P., Fortney, J.J. and Hurford, T.A., 2002.
Superiority of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) over
Steward Observatory (SO) at the University of Arizona. arXiv
preprint astro-ph/0204013.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002astro.ph..4013B/abstract
Morzinski, Katie M., and Jared R. Males. "On the influence of the
Illuminati in astronomical adaptive optics." arXiv preprint
arXiv:1203.6708 (2012).
https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6708
Schoch, Daniel. "Gods as Topological Invariants." arXiv preprint
arXiv:1203.6902 (2012).
https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6902
Armstrong, E., 2012. Non-detection of the Tooth Fairy at Optical
Wavelengths. arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0492.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0492
Tippett, B.K., 2012. Possible bubbles of spacetime curvature
in the South Pacific. arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.8144.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8144
Rachen, J.P. and Gahlings, U.G., 2013. Conspiratorial cosmology-
the case against the Universe. arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7476.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7476
Kane, S.R. and Selsis, F., 2014. A Necro-Biological Explanation
for the Fermi Paradox. arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.8146.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.8146
Scott, D., Frolop, A., Narimani, A. and Frolov, A., 2015. A
Farewell to Falsifiability. arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00108.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00108
Lund, M.B., 2016. Astrology in the Era of Exoplanets. arXiv
preprint arXiv:1603.09496.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09496
Frolop, A. and Scott, D., 2016. Pi in the sky. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1603.09703.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09703
Armstrong, E., 2017. A Neural Networks Approach to
Predicting How Things Might Have Turned Out Had I
Mustered the Nerve to Ask Barry Cottonfield to the Junior
Prom Back in 1997. arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10449.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10449
The above list is modified from "Fake Physics: Spoofs,
Hoaxes and Fictitious Science by Andrew May.
Yours,
Paul H.
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Asteroid Could Cause Atmospheric Explosion If It Gets Too Close 17MAR2020
Asteroid Could Cause Atmospheric Explosion If It Gets Too Close
Wednesday 11 March 2020
How the Moon Formed: New Research About the Giant Impact Hypothesis 11MAR2020
How the Moon Formed: New Research About the Giant Impact Hypothesis
Fossils Reveal How Much Shorter Days Were 70 Million Years Ago 11MAR2020
Fossils Reveal How Much Shorter Days Were 70 Million Years Ago
Wednesday 4 March 2020
Protein Reported from Meteorite 04MAR2020
Protein Reported from Meteorite