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- Australia’s Second Largest Asteroid Imact
- Drought Could Threaten Much of Globe Within Decades
- Substitutes for Rare Earth Magnets
- MapWorld: China’s Rival for Google Earth
- Cholera Hits Haiti Earthquake Survivors
- Arctic Report Card for 2010
- Earthquakes and the Social Network
| Australia’s Second Largest Asteroid Imact Posted: 24 Oct 2010 11:14 PM PDT “A geothermal energy researcher from the University of Queensland has found evidence of a major asteroid impact that occurred more than 300 million years ago in the South Australian outback.” Related: Google Map of Asteroid Impact Sites. |
| Drought Could Threaten Much of Globe Within Decades Posted: 24 Oct 2010 10:53 PM PDT “The United States and many other heavily populated countries face a growing threat of severe and prolonged drought in coming decades, according to results of a new study by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientist Aiguo Dai.” – Quoted from the National Science Foundation news release. |
| Substitutes for Rare Earth Magnets Posted: 24 Oct 2010 10:36 PM PDT Rare Earth Magnets are strong permanent magnets used in a wide range of electronics items such as speakers, small motors, hard drives, cordless tools, braking devices, generators. About 80% of today’s permanent magnets are made with rare earth materials. With reliable supplies of rare earth materials from China threatened inventors are working to find adequate substitutes. |
| MapWorld: China’s Rival for Google Earth Posted: 24 Oct 2010 10:29 PM PDT The Chinese government has produced a website that they claim will rival Google Earth (although it looks a lot more like Google Maps). MapWorld allows you to do most of the functions of Google Maps website – but focused on China. |
| Cholera Hits Haiti Earthquake Survivors Posted: 24 Oct 2010 10:04 PM PDT One of the many problems that follow large earthquakes in areas of high population is a lack of sanitary conditions that can persist for months or years after the earthquake. About 3000 cases of deadly cholera have been reported in Haiti. |
| Posted: 24 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT NOAA has released its “Arctic Report Card: Update for 2010″ which reports on conditions in the Arctic and focuses on the impact of climate change. The video below provides a brief summary. |
| Earthquakes and the Social Network Posted: 24 Oct 2010 10:47 AM PDT Imagine that an earthquake occurs and the vibrations are detected by harddrives in computers that determine their propagation direction and transmit warnings across social networks to people in areas ahead of the moving seismic waves – warning them to “duck and cover”. This is probably possible. |
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