Just posted on June 4 from Higher Ed Jobs: Part-Time/Adjunct Kendall College, located in Chicago’s West Loop area, seeks part-time, adjunct instructors for Summer Term Environmental Science.

In a message to the mineral photo post, Floyd wrote in with another site that includes photos of minerals found in South Africa. These minerals aren’t included in the other photo site. Mineral photos from the Capetown Gem and Mineral Society – http://ctminsoc.org.za/photos.php

Entertaining historical explanation…

Ancient cave art which may depict a bird which went extinct 40,000 years ago may be the oldest cave art in Australia.

Don’t call the Guatemala sinkhole a sinkhole… And an article about how some thought the images might be fake…

You can watch this documentary right on your computer….

An I Phone could be a useful tool….

… Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday. The oldest tombs date back to around 2750 B.C. during the period of Egypt’s first and second dynasties, the council said in a statement. Twelve of the tombs belong the 18th dynasty which ruled Egypt during the second millennium B.C….. more…

Via BBC: …Professor Briggs explained: “[These specimens have] shown that some of the organisms that we thought were exclusive to Cambrian actually persisted until the Ordovician.”…

Nice collection of mineral pictures.

Via Geology.com The ice that covers Greenland is melting reducing the weight of the landmass. As that happens the crust rises in response to the reduced weight. In some areas the rate of rise is an inch per year. It is amazing that climate change can result in the uplift of a landmass….

Via Farm and Dairy: With likely federal regulation of carbon dioxide emissions on the horizon, the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority took action at its May meeting to advance the state’s understanding of the suitability of its deep geology for the sequestration of CO2…. OAQDA approved a grant from its Ohio Coal Development Office program for Battelle of up to $2,209,409 and a separate OCDO grant to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources of up to $790,591. The funds are to be used for the 18-month project Conducting Research to Better Define the Sequestration Options in Eastern Ohio and the…

Via National Parks Traveler: Where is the rest of the original English settlement site on Roanoke Island?

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