In his Sept. column at Scientific American, Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, echoes the very same warnings about the Dawkins-Hitchens PR campaign emphasized here at Framing Science and in […]
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Good morning from a drizzly Ohio! Been a rather quiet news for much volcano news so far – well, that is beyond the reawakening of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. I […]
The annual cull of the endangered pilot dolphins just off the coast of the remote Faroe Islands is barbarism.
nn Finally, after a rather quiet week, we have news that yet another Aleutian volcano is showing signs of potential activity. Redoubt Volcano was seen steaming away in a recent […]
Admittedly, this is only a brief report, but there are indications that Tungurahua in Ecuador might be heading into a new period of heightened activity. Over the last week or […]
Things have quieted down on the volcano-news front lately. I did catch a report that Fuego (Guatemala) is having small explosions (stombolian eruptions; link in Spanish), producing small (100s m-tall) […]
Busy weekend (well, mostly grading, but that does eat time like you wouldn’t believe), so here are some quick hits from the news file: Busy Indonesia: As people begin to […]
The latest volcano news from the USGS and Smithsonian.
Lots of huffing-and-puffing from volcanoes around the world, all wrapped up neatly in this week’s USGS/SI Volcano Activity Report.
On this rainy Monday morning … Let’s hop in the Wayback Machine and head to the year 2009. Back in May of that year, we spent a lot of time […]
Is seismicity increasing underneath Mt. Rainier?
The latest news of global volcanism, including new dome growth at Nevado del Huila
The weekly USGS/SI volcano report is out, with some eyewitness description of the recent eruption in Ethiopia, Shishaldin in the Aleutians going on Yellow Alert and two volcanoes in Guatemala making noise.
Redoubt returns to “normal” and Long Valley has some earthquake swarms.
Eruptions today at two of the world’s more active volcanoes.
nn The newest reports out of Chile are indicating that the eruption at Chaiten has reached levels of intensity not seen since the eruption first started over six weeks ago. […]
Nyamuragira marks the new year with a new eruption, the first since 2006.
nn The Colombian government has extended the evacuations near Nevado del Huila, taking 800 families out of the danger zone near the rumbling volcano. Huila has been making a lot […]
nn Another day, another development at Chaiten. Military stationed near the volcano helping with evacuations reported “booming noises” and saw incandescent blocks getting hurled from the vent area. This suggests that lava […]
A shiny new report of the week’s volcanic activity, brought to us by the Smithsonian, USGS and the Global Volcanism Program … and of course, Sally Kuhn Sennert. Some highlights […]
The latest Volcanic Activity Report from the Global Volcanism Program including news from Russia, Japan, Chile and Alaska.
The latest news from the Global Volcanism Program, including more information on the eruption in the Marianas, rumblings in Papua New Guinea and lahars triggered by rain in Guatemala.
nn Just a brief note, but today (November 13) is the 23rd anniversary of the disastrous lahar at Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. Over 23,000 people died when a lahar, started […]
We’ve found out the winner of 2010 Pliny for volcanic event of the year yesterday, so now let’s look back at the entire year in volcanic activity. It was a […]
There are some reports of an eruption at Gorely in Kamchatka – but details are scarce.
A veritable treasure trove of volcanic tidbits, including new undersea eruptions discovered, the end of the eruption in the Galapagos, more Aleutian noise, an excellent interactive of Indonesian volcanism and boarding down an active volcanism (a.k.a., thinning the gene pool).
nn If you ever want your research to be picked up by the popular press, you pretty much need to publish in the journal Science. It (along with Nature) are […]
How is it that we’re able to focus on a distant conversation while ignoring the person who is speaking right in front of us? Tony Zador, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, breaks down the brain mechanisms that allow us to have selective auditory attention.
In recent weeks, I’ve weighed in on You Tube as an emerging and important strategic communication tool. (Go here and here.) Now the NY Times adds this to the discussion […]