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Our variable star (part one): Getting trends in solar observations right

Originally posted on ClimateSnack:
Variations in the Sun’s output affects our climate. How much the Sun changes by can only be determined by observing it continuously over a long period of time. In order to quantify the role that the…

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After The Frost

Originally posted on Homeplace Earth:
The first hard frost of fall has come. I think it happened here on October 24. I can’t say for sure because I was in Ohio visiting family. I knew the seasons would be changing…

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PODCAST: Charles Darwin and the practice of science

Originally posted on The Dispersal of Darwin:
The Royal Society of London has posted the audio from an October lecture with Alison Pearn of the Darwin Correspondence Project, “‘We are arriving at very curious results’: Charles Darwin and the practice…

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New perspectives on an aquacultural geography

Originally posted on Geography Directions:
Boy holding a pangasius catfish (photograph by Ben Belton) by Ben Belton and Simon Bush So how many people realise that more than half the fish eaten by human beings will very soon come from…

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