Are you passionate about something? Do you know something inside out where others barely give it a glance?
Everyone's a geek about something. And that's wonderful.
Demise of the Pasterze (AT) icefall over the last 8 years! 🔥
This south-facing icefall was the last to feed the valley tongue, and it will be cut off anytime soon, likely next summer, leaving a dead ice body below 🧊📈
Source @GeoSphere_AT
The earliest record for all snow in Scotland disappearing is 23rd August, which happened in 2003. If significant falls of fresh snow do not occur in the next four weeks or so then that early date will be trounced this summer.
I have never seen the hills so denuded of snow in mid March.
📷 SAIS Lochaber - https://t.co/yIr6XirZuu
Do you know the 4Ts of #type1diabetes? They are:
🚽 Toilet (needing a wee more)
🚰 Thirsty
💤 Tired
⬇️ Thinner
If you’re already familiar with the 4Ts, will you share this post to make sure more people know the signs of type 1 diabetes?
March 9, 1847, Mary Anning died #OTD. Self-taught fossil collector from Lyme Regis, she discovered complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurii, Plesiosaurus & Dimorphodon, pioneering the study of coprolites - or fossilized poo - & molluscs
https://t.co/m2zuWxn9ap
@simongerman600 I had always thought that Florence Nightingale, of lamp fame, was credited with the invention of the Pie 🥧chart
Every day is a school day…..
So sad
A true gentleman.
An infectious enthusiast
He always had time to pass on friendly advice, or just chat when I had the privilege of meeting him whilst working as a Post Grad / Post Doc at the Natural History Museum
RIP
British geologist Richard Alan Fortey passed away today at the age of 79. An expert on fossils & the stratigraphy of the Ordovician, he was also a passionated science popularizer
https://t.co/5b62GP03Q9
March 7, 1785, Scottish farmer & naturalist James Hutton presents his full theory of the Earth at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
https://t.co/nAqI6gWarM
Dave’s Thursday Nav Problem
We are hiding 🫣behind the cairn on Fell end, looking NW across Slei Gill up broad reentrant to Low Moor, marking change from improved to unimproved land
🔴 is the 1st obvious reentrant downstream from the bend in the gill. Wall crosses higher up
Map Reading Task 292
Where precisely was the photo taken?
Identify the feature circled.
photo credit @ABTheAdventure
video answer for Patreon subscribers this evening
#mapreading
their model was based on unpublished crystallographic data by British biochemist Rosalind Franklin, who was credited only a decade later.
Franklin worked also on modern classification of coal types and carbon-minerals