Earth Day is about saving your time on Earth, not saving Earth itself.
Geologic time scale – Fossil Wiki, the paleontology wiki. Today is the 41st Earth Day. When it started in 1970, April 22nd wasn’t really a day dedicated to saving the Earth, it was more a day of protest about a lot of things that were happening on Earth. There has been an Earth Day every [...]
The Civil War wasn’t civil. Discuss.
150 years ago, the United States broke apart and entered a brutal civil war. Today there is a debate about what the war was really about, slavery or states’ rights, but let’s be clear about that states’ rights thing…. it wasn’t about states’ rights other than the central right that those states would kill for [...]
National Geographic Expedition Week game sponsored by artifact sales
I saw the tweet about click through and take pictures and NG would mail you artifacts if you played their game Mission Expedition | Expedition Week- National Geographic Channel. But I didn’t think they’d be real, actual artifacts. And then I saw the sponsor banner link for Ancient Resource. Ancient Resource is the name [...]
HowStuffWorks “What can we learn from computational archaeology?”
HowStuffWorks “What can we learn from computational archaeology?”.
Archaeologists attack BP’s drilling plans | The Art Newspaper
From Greek and Roman shipwrecks to 20th-century warships; from ancient streets with intact buildings and mosaics to amphorae and ingots, the Mediterranean is a subaqueous treasure trove. So BP’s plans to drill exploratory oil wells off Libya has raised serious concerns among archaeologists, historians and heritage preservation organisations. The global energy giant says that it [...]
Shipwreck could yield the USS Scorpion from the War of 1812
The wreck was first discovered by Donald Shomette, who has written several books about underwater archaeology in the Patuxent, and by Ralph Eshelman in the late 1970s. It was excavated in 1980, but they reburied it because they lacked the funds to fully excavate and conserve the ship. The current team, led by Julie Schablitsky, [...]
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks – U.S. news – Environment – msnbc.com
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks – U.S. news – Environment – msnbc.com.
Diving Into the Gulf’s Toxic Soup – ABC News
Diving Into the Gulf’s Toxic Soup – ABC News. Philippe Cousteu Jr. dons a hazmat diving suit and splashes in the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Horrific.