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"Geo man," Richard Alley video

Although at first glance, this "input" for its title, does not seem to have much to do with the usual and normal content of our blog, since it does not refer directly to fossils and their relationship to folklore, but it seems to offer here is a parody geology of a popular song ... but in reality, is a musical version of the history of our planet, as everybody knows well trained, is a much more related to general geology to paleontology.
But as devoted a couple of minutes to make mention and illustration of the sequence of geological periods and the evolution of their faunas characteristics, we see that some relationship with the fossil Fiene. But the real truth is that this "input" with what he has real relationship is with popular culture, especially for the exhibition d'method and format that has used its creator, Richard Alley, to communicate with the public, and in this particular case, are the audiovisual and pop music, accompanying the geo-pianist-singer, at times, a few short animated images, or static, which illustrate, didactically, the lyrical speech of the "artist educator."

want to dedicate this atypical entry, all those people who think, wrongly, from my scientific perspective, the Earth Sciences are a boring stuff, a real "boulder" of course, with content absolutely choking, and dull, inert and static.

With the viewing of this video geo-musical we intend to try to convince at least some of these people (show and would get much more arduous task and unlikely) that their perception of the issue must be, surely, that were genetically predestined and vocationally for the Humanities ... or, quite possibly, what happened to them in their school time, is that their relationship with geology, unfortunately for you and Earth Sciences, was traumatic, having suffered a little motivating teaching methods and innovative sparsely applied by teachers poorly prepared and poorly motivated teachers to the implications.

For all the above and so to prove to skeptical group, the success of our reasoned opinion, will appeal to the practical use of a classical pedagogical argument: the ideal of every teacher should be to "teach having fun" to their pupils.

This will ludic-education, in favor of Earth Sciences, I intend to attend a performance, very little academic, totally, starring Richard Alley, a geologist and a doctorate in geology professor Pennsylvania State University. You will be able

"Audiovison" a curious version, very "distorted professionally, "the well-known and popular song" Piano Man "from the singer, songwriter and pianist Billy Joel where a profesosr of Geology, shows his great ability to synthesize most of the full program of Geology, in just 5 minutes and his strength of two musical instruments executed y. .. above all, his sense of humor science teachers.

I want with the viewing of Geo Man , have enjoyed, as I do, the performance of our guest artist Richard Alley, a character that while it may seem like lies, is a university lecturer geologist and a doctorate in geology.

I hope if he has not served to convince you that the geology, well experienced, can become very interesting, very exciting and even, sometimes, very funny, I hope you at least have to refresh your rusty basic geological knowledge, and in the worst case, to recover, some fond memories of your time students, more or less related to geology classes ....

welcome!

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paleontology-themed Poetry (2) Fossil

For Heraclius Astudillo Pombo. D. MACS, UDL.


L Introduction to using os "chemical fossils" as a poetic motif.

This time, we will devote the entry of the month, a very special category of fossils, known as "chemical fossils" because although they are two types of parts, commonly called "fossil fuels "(coal, oil and natural gas) and third, everyone knows that it is a" fossil resin, very few ordinary people take them into account when speaking of fossils, because in general, when talking or think of fossils, are only taken as such, the "body fossils and, more rarely, the "trace fossils."

The "chemical fossils" are a type of geological materials rather than remnants of a single living organism, usually from the fossilization of organic matter accumulated collective origin in certain places due to certain circumstances.

carbon in its various varieties sedimentary anthracite coal, lignite, is a "fossil chemical", its components come from the accumulation of plant material of different types of plants that, in past geological times formed large dense forests or peatlands.
also falls into this unusual category of fossil the crude oil, fluid substance that comes from the decomposition of large amounts of marine plankton accumulated in certain coastal areas, so that its composition is a diverse mix of animal material (zooplankton) and plant (phytoplankton) which was rich ocean communities . Likewise, they are also chemical fossils derived products, of course, oil such as asphalt or tar and bitumen or bitumen.
Both coal and oil, as we have said before, are part of the so-called "fossil fuels" for its ability to burn have been used by humanity to build, primarily, energy heat, when the technology would allow, could be transformed into other forms of energy that have brought economic progress and human welfare through the generalization of the social benefits of the Industrial Revolution.
Unfortunately, ownership and exploitation of coal and oil deposits, has generated and still generate multiple social conflicts, war and natural.

Finally, we present the amber, a material that has been regarded as noble and magical, from prehistoric times and, despite their appearance and customs so different to those above for fossil fuels we must not forget that part of the same group of fossils atypical.

is a plant material from fossilized resin exuded by various types of trees in Europe is generally of conifers and America generally comes from the fossilized resin of legumes.


ring

Poem Miguel Angel Velasco (Spain, 1963), extracted from the Ciao website Comments about Wild Honey - Miguel Angel Velasco for "cronopio2 " which was said his book of poems, "Wild Honey"

Possibly the verses that follow were designed by the creative mind of the poet, as he looked to the light, a piece of amber of American origin, as the English amber with insects included, because of its rarity and scientific value, so far never has been used in jewelry, as in this case that identified constituted "the rock" used as the primary decorative element of the ring that causes the musings of the poet Miguel Angel Velasco.

We remind the reader, some seasoned in etymology, the Latin root "sort", the English word ring, we refer explicitly to primitive beliefs in purported ability of this type of jewelry to ensure good luck, to their bearers and therefore informs us, indirectly, from former uses apotropaic, associated with pre-scientific credulity, certain types of jewelry that were naively , considered and used as amulets, protection against ill fortune. Also in this case, concrete, amber is a substance, which by their nature, were attributed to the same kind of beliefs and practices, so that a ring equipped with this type of stone would be considered doubly virtuous.

greatly enhanced appearance of a fly, perfectly preserved in amber Colombian copy from 2.5 to 1.5 MA-old from a Plio-Pleistocene site of an Andean zone.

Image: http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Galleries/Insect_Galleries_by_Order/Diptera/Various_dipterans_amber/fly1.jpg

plunges into the fiery eye drop

stormy amber.

There is a secret in the province heat

summary. A mosquito, Icarus

dark time

underground,

rowing in the bubble still has

the northern violin without hum.

grilled Shrine. tear Dura

a sun in agony crystallized

of remote particles were

volcanic at dawn. Ember

our hell,

that carry as one does not know

that treasures its ruin,

Pompeii Day of Wrath in a ring.