Agama agama, if you're interested. The lizard, I mean.

But but but.... how did the loonies get inside the rock in the first place?

Math is a wonderful, flexible tool. I refuse to cater to a fear of numbers! Anyway, these are straight multiply-or-divide formulas; anything you can do on a cellphone calculator is fair game for a science article. ;)

The concept of how to run a resistivity survey for groundwater detection is well-established — nothing new about this. Yes, scaling issues would absolutely get intense: a 9V battery and pinflags have no hope at all of penetrating to any substantial depth. As I said, I more typically used quarter- to half-inch diameter…

I am a hydrogeologist who utilizes multiple geophysical techniques (e.g. 3D ER, gravimetry, etc.) to identify preferential flow paths in karst environments and also conduct nation-wide (United States) groundwater sustainability analyses for municipalities, large-scale industrial facilities, and bottled water…

been awhile since I studied photoshythesis and chemistry... But what about the other half of the reaction? What happens to the carbon from the air and the hydrogen from the water? Do these thigs grow? Or do they just shed sugars off onto the floor?

I hope you make it, Mika!

On Monday, I'll be running a review of Tony Martin's Dinosaurs Without Bones (spoiler: it's a really fun book on trace fossils), during which he'll be around for a Q&A. But, to warm you up, I'm running a trace fossils article later tonight. I'm totally excited for it, doing one of those giddy countdown-to-publication…

Oh who's coming to talk about trace fossils? I've definitely got questions about that!

There's no way you could have done the reality of the situation justice without people thinking you were getting all worked up over little things...when in fact the reality is worse than most people can imagine. That's why I had to chime in to back your article up—it's been 20 years and those pictures give me the…

Here are some photoso from the place, a friend of mine shot this, went there few days ago. Awful what happened, we are garthering stuff, food, clothes and medicine for poor people. there has not been a solidarity like this from the Yugoslavia state era.

If there's evidence that salinity around Antarctica is decreasing at a rate similar to the sea ice build-up then that could be the causal agent...

I'm highly suspicious of this. I mean, have a look at the title of his latest posting on his site. "Nothing says "good morning" like a plateful of delicious tentacles."

Your mission is to conjure up some zoological magic in the frying pan this weekend.

They look awesome. Thanks, now I want some pancakes.

I thought i was the coolest dad ever... This guy is a god.

Check Phil Plait's blog on Slate. It's called Bad Astronomy. He is an astronomer and not a climatologist but he links all of his date and tries to put it in a very understandable way.