© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to press release Tim Stephens, Historic legacy of lead pollution persists despite regulatory efforts, University of California – Santa Cruz (16 February 2013) Toxicology professor Russell Flegal’s report at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Boston From the University of California at Santa Cruz: [...]
Categories: Environment,Public Health,Science
Tagged: crime rate, crime trends, gasoline, lead additive, lead poisoning, lead pollution, preschool lead exposure, Rick Nevin, Russell Flegal, Shankar Vedantam, Tim Stephens, toxicology
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- 17 February 2013 – 10:22
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- By BrainiYak
Citation — to press release Tim Stephens, Mercury in coastal fog linked to upwelling of deep ocean water, University of California – Santa Cruz (04 December 2012) Not especially important for its own sake, but chemically interesting Peter Weiss-Penzias and students have found allegedly harmless levels of mercury in California coastal fog. They suspected that [...]
Categories: Chemistry,Environment,Oceanography,Science
Tagged: 19th Century, coal, coastal fog, deep water, dimethyl mercury, droplets, evaporate, Industrial Revolution, monomethyl mercury, monomethylmercury, Peter Weiss-Penzias, redwood, Tim Stephens, upwelling, volatile
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- 4 December 2012 – 16:50
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- By BrainiYak
From Nature The moon lacks a magnetic field. So, people have tried to explain the presence of magnetized rocks on its surface. A letter in Nature suggests a hypothesis. When the moon was much closer to the Earth, the latter’s gravity caused precession (wobbling) in the moon’s rotational axis. Gravity’s differential effects on the moon’s [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: C. A. Dwyer, D. J. Stevenson, dynamo, Earth, electromagnetic, F. Nimmo, gravity, liquid core, lunar rocks, magnetized, mantle, mechanical, microtesla, moon, precession, stirring, surface rocks, tesla, Tim Stephens
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- 14 November 2011 – 09:47
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- By BrainiYak
An environmentally important study funded by charitable foundations Barbara Block and colleagues recently published an important paper in Nature: Tagging of Pacific Predators, a field programme of the Census of Marine Life, deployed 4,306 tags on 23 species in the North Pacific Ocean, resulting in a tracking data set of unprecedented scale and species diversity [...]
Categories: Environment,Science
Tagged: A. J. Winship, A. Swithenbank, A.-L. Harrison, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, B. A. Block, B. R. Mate, California Current, Census of Marine Life, D. G. Foley, D. P. Costa, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, E. L. Hazen, Future of Marine Animal Populations, G. A. Breed, G. L. Shillinger, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, H. Dewar, I. D. Jonsen, J. E. Ganong, K. M. Schaefer, M. Castleton, M. J. Weise, Marine Life JIP-OPG, NOAA, North Pacific Transition Zone, Office of Naval Research, Pacific’s California Current Likened to Africa’s Serengeti Plain, R. W. Henry, Randy Kochevar, S. A. Shaffer, S. J. Bograd, S. J. Jorgensen, S. R. Benson, Tagging of Pacific Predators, Terry Collins, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation, Tim Stephens, Tracking apex marine predator movements in a dynamic ocean
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- 24 June 2011 – 18:35
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- By BrainiYak