tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post5588841060835354171..comments2024-02-07T22:52:15.919-07:00Comments on Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science: Giant Sloth Coprolite From Nevada: This Poop is Fair to MiddenWord Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-47611930883039061662016-11-21T11:09:09.455-07:002016-11-21T11:09:09.455-07:00Say, could we say NIMBY to DT and export him to Si...Say, could we say NIMBY to DT and export him to Siberia or perhaps Antarctica, please?Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-62653938525150889312016-11-21T10:53:10.253-07:002016-11-21T10:53:10.253-07:00One more for this week's theme: It may be alm...One more for this week's theme: It may be almost two centuries old, but it looks like it may our word of the year: <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/kakistocracy" rel="nofollow">kakistocracy</a>.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-8396966033544148672016-11-15T20:01:12.659-07:002016-11-15T20:01:12.659-07:00New post on "YIMBY: Yes, In My Back Yard: Blo...New post on "YIMBY: Yes, In My Back Yard: Block Island Wind Farm Begins Operations" is now up.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-58068292860180695622016-11-15T11:55:03.421-07:002016-11-15T11:55:03.421-07:00I had that thought also, jan.I had that thought also, jan.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-29231612151654287072016-11-15T11:40:28.902-07:002016-11-15T11:40:28.902-07:00It's a familiar story to anyone who's work...It's a familiar story to anyone who's worked at Bell Labs. I wonder if John LeCarre would call that big horn antenna "The Pigeon Funnel"?janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-33277975267956283052016-11-15T11:25:59.430-07:002016-11-15T11:25:59.430-07:00How the search for bird poop helped us understand ...<a href="https://massivesci.com/how-the-search-for-bird-poop-helped-us-understand-the-origins-of-the-universe-7a8c685742eb#.yfesk8rtn" rel="nofollow">How the search for bird poop helped us understand the origins of the universe</a>: Continuing the poop theme and, a bonus, Bell Labs!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-28727810723385251532016-11-15T08:15:05.056-07:002016-11-15T08:15:05.056-07:00Noteworthy things that happened on November 8 :
Ye...<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38360-trump-in-the-white-house-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky" rel="nofollow">Noteworthy things that happened on November 8 </a>:<br />Yes, change is happening. Yes, it affects the entire planet.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-69978486084955548812016-11-13T09:59:14.525-07:002016-11-13T09:59:14.525-07:00And SYZYGY has lots of consonants. . .And <a href="https://www.google.com/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/01/night-sky-november-2016--perigee-syzygy-aka-supermoon/amp/" rel="nofollow">SYZYGY</a> has lots of consonants. . . Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-37867611408298322802016-11-13T07:43:52.706-07:002016-11-13T07:43:52.706-07:00Does the source have a lot of vowels?Does the source have a lot of vowels?Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-21300725333386468102016-11-13T07:01:40.274-07:002016-11-13T07:01:40.274-07:00Dormant Supervolcano Underneath Yellowstone Figure...<b>Dormant Supervolcano Underneath Yellowstone Figures Now As Good A Time As Any</b><br /><br />November 11, 2016<br /><br />JACKSON, WY — Taking note of the circumstances that were presently transpiring on the surface, the dormant supervolcano located 12 miles beneath Yellowstone National Park reportedly thought to itself Friday that now was probably just as good a time as any. “You know, I’ve gotta do this sooner or later, and frankly, this just feels like a pretty decent time to pull the trigger and go through with this thing, so why not?” the 11,200-cubic-mile magma chamber reportedly told itself, adding that after 630,000 years without a supereruption, and given the week the landmass above it had just endured, the time seemed right to unleash an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the Mt. St. Helens eruption and blanket much of North America in several feet of fiery ash, immediately killing 90,000 people and setting off a nuclear winter that would slowly annihilate millions more. “It’s been a while, and I mean, I’m more or less due on a geologic time scale, so today seems like a good enough day to me. I might as well just go for it, right?” At press time, the nation’s citizens were breathing an immense sigh of relief as an onrushing wall of superheated gas and volcanic ejecta came hurtling toward them.<br /><br />(You can guess where this came from.)janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-47924471481085171692016-11-12T12:00:43.382-07:002016-11-12T12:00:43.382-07:00Just learned, via the "Hillary hiking with Ma...Just learned, via the "Hillary hiking with Margot and Phoebe photo") that Hillary Clinton has a pup, also named Maisie (my Maizie has a 'Z'). If only they had campaigned together. . .(only half kidding; it would have been great to see her out loving her dog!).Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-2263798619145723332016-11-11T07:48:32.298-07:002016-11-11T07:48:32.298-07:00And a few Hallelujahs. . .
Sorry, my phone is fl...And a few <a href="https://youtu.be/YrLk4vdY28Q" rel="nofollow">Hallelujahs. . . </a><br /><br />Sorry, my phone is flaking out today.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-83100115682230924402016-11-11T07:43:23.425-07:002016-11-11T07:43:23.425-07:00
Wacky and crappie, yup!
Ah, Lego, some scat,... <br /> <br />Wacky and crappie, yup!<br /><br />Ah, Lego, some scat, oh, logical, singing is just what we need today. <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-73411571522387249192016-11-10T21:58:31.290-07:002016-11-10T21:58:31.290-07:00Fitting and timely subject, Word Woman, in the wak...Fitting and timely subject, Word Woman, in the wake a wacky, crappie week.<br /><br />Lego<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CbVy1NnB4g" rel="nofollow">Scat</a>ocologicallylegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-73443849643182663332016-11-10T20:29:47.959-07:002016-11-10T20:29:47.959-07:00And Charmin' was perfect, btw.And Charmin' was perfect, btw.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-10649259670117022152016-11-10T17:29:38.820-07:002016-11-10T17:29:38.820-07:00Nothing like a good handful of fossil poop to make...Nothing like a good handful of fossil poop to make you fully appreciate life!<br /><br />Sometimes I even wear dinosaur coprolite earrings ;-)!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-71383613784424586142016-11-10T16:13:27.049-07:002016-11-10T16:13:27.049-07:00Fair enough. I suppose poop gets a bad name, afte...Fair enough. I suppose poop gets a bad name, after all one critter's poop is another critter's meal. And a good thing too, otherwise (after <b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx" rel="nofollow">the 6004 years</a></b> since the planet was Usshered in) we'd be up to our __'s in the stuff.<br /><br />Years ago I did a project with composting toilets and according to the manufacturer 90% of poop is water vapor, which jibes pretty well with my memory as a kid of a "new" vs "old" cow chips. So these coprolites must have been impressive indeed, on might even say Charmin'.ecoarchitecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02824602705492756728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-66422447351109081232016-11-10T15:50:34.628-07:002016-11-10T15:50:34.628-07:00Like petrified wood, especially...Like petrified wood, especially...Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-84102706686310452162016-11-10T15:46:47.331-07:002016-11-10T15:46:47.331-07:00Casts are only one kind of fossil. There are othe...Casts are only one kind of fossil. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil#Fossilization_processes" rel="nofollow">There are other ways that fossils are formed that preserve more structural information.</a>janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-30725583341105826942016-11-10T15:46:37.978-07:002016-11-10T15:46:37.978-07:00Yes, it was good to think about real, honest to go...Yes, it was good to think about real, honest to goodness poop for awhile, eco.<br /><br />Great question. It's a matter of time, and yes, replacement. Sloth excrement is actual fossilized poop, though it is much younger than say, dinosaur poop, which often is replaced by agate, jasper, or other rock. Fossils are considered to be anything left behind as evidence of life, so, <i>sensu stricto,</i> your morning poop could be a fossil if pooped out in a drying environment like Nevada.<br /><br />Poop. It never gets old. Not!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-31806233561292475142016-11-10T15:08:10.954-07:002016-11-10T15:08:10.954-07:00By the way, thanks for the cool article, some wort...By the way, thanks for the cool article, some worthy distractions are needed these days.<br /><br />But a clarification for us non-scientists: in the first paragraph you call it mummified dung, which sounds reasonable. But then you call it fossilized poop. I thought a fossil is not the actual material, but a "3d model" cast in minerals that filled the void when the original organic material decayed. As such isn't it impossible to do any fossil analysis other than shape, etc., in a visual inspection?<br /><br />I gave dinosaur coprolite as a stocking stuffer years ago, but it seemed pretty rocky to me.ecoarchitecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02824602705492756728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-21830492372174445282016-11-10T14:48:15.139-07:002016-11-10T14:48:15.139-07:00Yes, that too, eco.Yes, that too, eco.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-89984841037125443922016-11-10T14:46:02.921-07:002016-11-10T14:46:02.921-07:00When the sloths don't move, we get a pile of c...When the sloths don't move, we get a pile of crap. Substitute Democrats for sloths.ecoarchitecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02824602705492756728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-65026475338288108252016-11-10T11:06:13.833-07:002016-11-10T11:06:13.833-07:00Yes! I am proud.Yes! I am proud.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-24107018274034813992016-11-10T11:03:38.506-07:002016-11-10T11:03:38.506-07:00I envy an individual named for a deadly sin, even ...I envy an individual named for a deadly sin, even if its midden don't inspire gluttony. Are you proud of your fecal erudition?janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.com