Posted by Rich on Apr 09, 2010 in Science
From the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences: A computer model simulating how an asteroid impact formed the Chicxulub crater. The light grey represents the Earth's crust. The dark grey represents the upper mantle.
It seems that a panel of 41 scientific researchers (see the article abstract for a listing of participants), after studying all of the evidence for various dinosaur demise theories, have recently published an article in Science Magazine that concludes that the Alvarez asteroid theory is the most likely explanation for the dinosaur extinction that occurred 65 my ago ...
Posted by Rich on Mar 01, 2010 in Politics, Science, Inequality

I recently came across an article discussing a book authored by two epidemiologists entitled,"The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better" ...
Posted by Rich on Jan 08, 2010 in Science
During the time that Kevin was in Antarctica, an ongoing study was underway there addressing the dinosaur extinction that occurred 65 million years ago. The dashed line in the picture below delineates the K-T boundary at Trinidad Lake State Park in southern Colorado (one of many places throughout the world where the boundary outcrops).

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