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- Yosemite Rock Fall Hazards Video & Map
- Spectacular Emerald Found in North Carolina
- Recalculating Our Solar System’s Age
- Brazil: Fire Tornado
- City Workers Dig Tunnel, Find Dinosaur Bones
- Autonomous Oil-Absorbing Robot in Development
- Finger Lakes Teaching Resources
| Yosemite Rock Fall Hazards Video & Map Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:45 PM PDT Yosemite Valley is a deep, glacier-carved valley bounded by steep granite cliffs. These steep cliffs produce numerous rock falls and rock slides every year. The falls can be massive, involving millions of cubic meters and the results can be fatal. Related: Photo sequence of a spectacular rock fall in Yosemite by Herb Dunn.  |
| Spectacular Emerald Found in North Carolina Posted: 27 Aug 2010 10:35 PM PDT Terry Ledford found a 310 carat piece of emerald rough in Alexander County, North Carolina that was cut into a spectacular 64-carat gem. Experts believe it is the largest cut emerald ever produced from a North American deposit. (The photo of the gem on Cleveland.com shows a number of clarity characteristics within the stone – [...]  |
| Recalculating Our Solar System’s Age Posted: 27 Aug 2010 10:24 PM PDT A new study at Arizona State University has lead researchers to estimate that our solar system is between 0.3 and 1.9 million years older than previously thought.  |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2010 09:51 PM PDT A small twister moving through a burning field produced this “fire tornado” in Sao Paolo, Brazil. t>  |
| City Workers Dig Tunnel, Find Dinosaur Bones Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:33 PM PDT While digging a sewer tunnel in Edmonton, Alberta, city workers have uncovered multiple dinosaur bones. The bones are thought to belong to the Albertosaurus and the Edmontosaurus species of dinosaur.  |
| Autonomous Oil-Absorbing Robot in Development Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:00 PM PDT “Using a cutting edge nanotechnology, researchers at MIT have created a robotic prototype that could autonomously navigate the surface of the ocean to collect surface oil and process it on site. ” – Quoted from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology news release.  |
| Finger Lakes Teaching Resources Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:24 AM PDT This Blackboard site prepared by Laurie Van Vleet of the Ithaca City School District contains one of the most extensive collections of online teaching resources for the Finger Lakes region of New York that you will find anywhere. There are lots of photos, links to websites, teaching ideas, lesson plans, virtual field trips and more.  |
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