Friday Headlines: 6-14-13

Friday Headlines, June 14, 2013

THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES

I feel like I slacked off this week. I don’t have my usual collection of headlines queued up and ready to be written. Oh, what do I do?

There are places I go to look for good headlines, if nothing otherwise has passed across my computer screen during the week.

You can always look to Nature magazine for headlines in the Earth Sciences. The problem there is that all those papers are pay-walled, so unless you’ve got a subscription, the best you’ll get is an abstract. Not cool. Plus, it’s all written in Science-ese, which is largely inaccessible to the public at large.

Science magazine is also a good place to look, and it has a subject index (at least for the current issue). But it also has the problems of the pay-wall. Grumble.

I’ll pop by PhysOrg.com and look at their headlines for the Earth Sciences.

Sometimes, one of my Facebook or Twitter friends will post something that I need to share.

Mostly, though, I just see what floats past my ‘Science Headlines‘ Twitter feed. I only have a few things there. Nine members of the list. Some journals and ‘standard’ news outlets, and some people who seem to always have interesting things to say. It scrolls along during the day and I catch things as they pass by.

So, if you want to know what’s going on in the sciences, and the Earth sciences in particular, now you know where I usually look.

And on that note, I do have one headline for you:

FAMILY UNEARTHS LARGE DINOSAUR SKELETON DURING VACATION

How cool would this be? You’re out on a hike with the family and you happen across something like this:

If you’re good, you do as the Watts did. You uncover a bit of it, realize that it’s really important, make note of where you found it, then tell the proper authorities.