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I was just reminded that Denver (H.J. Deutschendorf Jr.) and his wife lived in #Edina, #Minnesota in the late 1960's to early 1970's! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse #Minnesota ! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse 🚨Job Alert !!🚨 Univ Iowa npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Nice! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse The first pterosaur fossil from Egypt! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will be opening in western #NorthDakota this week. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse "Rise of modern marine fishes captured in an early Paleocene Lagerstätte" in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. ⚒️🧪 npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Eastern South Dakota #SilentSunday npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse "The Extractive Midwest" npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Mineralogical Society: The Special Collection (Vol. 1) issue - ALL papers are available to read: npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse "The Great Lakes Fire History Digital Archive is a working, evolving digital archive that collects and makes accessible primary source documents pertaining to forest fires in the Great Lakes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse ND Shakespeare Festival to perform MACBETH this week in #Fargo ! 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I think the contractor just completed an airborne geophysical survey in northern #Minnesota. Image from #USGS Earth MRI website npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse To better "see" Precambrian basement geology, an airborne geophysical survey is currently being carried out over eastern North Dakota! USGS with North Dakota Geological Survey NDGS. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse #Dylan on life on your '80s, New York Times npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse SciPride June 20 : Celebrate Pride when the Bell Museum, University of #Minnesota centers the work of LGBTQIA+ scientists and allies! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse History of #Minnesota: forests, fires, policy npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse The #Chicago Field Museum's annual paleontology extravaganza "Dinopalooza 2026" is today! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Two Funded PhD Positions in Environmental Systems & Risk Modeling at the University of #Minnesota, USA npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Exterior of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, 2026. The design is remade yearly, using corn cobs of different colors, cut in half and attached to the façade, along with native grasses. 1/2 npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Portion of the interior of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD, which is an arena / performance space; and explanatory panels. 2/2 npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse The #Niobrara National Scenic River, northern #Nebraska, at the Hwy 183 bridge. It flows eastward to join with the Missouri. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Mad Men: Don Draper / Dick Whitman npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse nice write up here: npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Nebraska Sandhills, north of Arthur. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Rio Grande River at Albuquerque, upstream and downstream. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse "E-Autos werden in Deutschland immer beliebter. Jeder vierte Neuwagen im Mai war ein Fahrzeug mit Elektroantrieb." npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Ideas from the (sadly, recently departed) Raul Pacheco-Vega. He also discusses a spreadsheet dump method. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Probably not your run of the mill samples! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse 🚨Job Alert ! 🚨 Senior Electron Microscopy Scientist, Savannah River Site, South Carolina, USA npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse 300th Birthday of James Hutton! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse 🚨Job Alert‼️🚨 npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Today in #Albuquerque, reading and signing: npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse 🚨Job Alert!!🚨 W3-Professur für Mineralogie; Full professorship (W3) in #Mineralogy at Heidelberg : igneous and metamorphic processes, geochemistry, geochronology, planetary sciences/cosmochemistry, environmental. ⚒️🧪 npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Dog treadmill from the 1890s, used for powering machines. Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Current status. Geology connection - the murdered husband Dietrichson was in the oil business npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Current status - 72nd Institute on Lake Superior Geology conference. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse The Mississippi River at Grand Rapids, Minnesota npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse IMA Webinar: “Native #Copper in the Munich Subsurface: A Natural Laboratory for Unusual Redox Chemistry under Low-Temperature, Alkaline Conditions” npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse I don't recall ever seeing anyone in the US actually cooking in their indoor home fireplace (not counting historical reenactments). 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Great way to start the summer! ⚒️🧪 npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Still thinking about those delicious Steak Frites at Little Bad Wolf in Andersonville from over a month ago - highly recommended #Chicago npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse This is indeed a great rock. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse The collapse of orange growing in Florida, amazing story! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Check out this thread! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse "#Nobel laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born 116 years ago today. The legend among legends in #crystallography, she cracked the 27 atom structure of penicillin, and then the 181 atom structure of vitamin B12, and THEN the 788 atom structure of insulin. " npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Bizarre proposal to cut all federal funding for tribal colleges and universities - extra ironic for #NorthDakota, as the Secretary of the Interior is the former ND governor, Burgum 🧪 npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Finals Week!✔️ npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Right, also a great reputation for ore mineralogy (although I don't know what they're doing in that realm, nowadays). I have no idea on their focus for this position, you'll have to ask them! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Meanwhile, Stearns County, #Minnesota, where Sinclair Lewis grew up, has voted very Republican for a while now. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse 🚨Job Alert !!🚨 Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University, Germany npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse 50 years since the devastating Friuli earthquake, May 6 #Italy npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse I'll second that! npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse France launches one-euro university meals for all students npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse I think for this survey they had to choose from a given list. npub1nz6d32uqyv5c370u83rhsypcaxrn4p8d3l8ycsxjf66f04d9esgq2jvmzc bse Americans' favorite planet is "not sure" (38%) followed by Mars (19%) according to YouGov survey. 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