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Thor
- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
Crystallography
What do all these words and phrases relate to? Crystalline, symmetry, geometric, symmetrical intergrowth, and crystallography....
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Thor
- Apr 28, 2022
- 1 min
Rock Salt
Rock salt -- Rock, from the medieval Latin rocca. Salt, from old Germanic salz. A rock is made up of one or more minerals. Rocks are...
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Thor
- Apr 14, 2022
- 1 min
Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic rocks, one of the three rocks that make up the Rock Cycle. The others are sedimentary and igneous rocks. Metamorphic means...
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Thor
- Apr 7, 2022
- 1 min
Physics and the Law of Conservation of Energy
Let’s talk about physics and the law of conservation of energy. The main goal of physics is to understand how the universe behaves. It...
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Thor
- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min
Interpreting Archaeology
I am a trained archaeologist, but archaeology is not at all what most people make it out to be. Yes, it’s about digging up cool stuff...
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Thor
- Aug 26, 2021
- 1 min
Fossilization
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Fossilization is incredibly rare, it really only happens around water, with river beds and swamps being the...
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Thor
- Jul 8, 2021
- 1 min
Amethysts in Greek Mythology
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Amethyst in Greek means a-to not and methysko-intoxicate. It was thought amethyst would protect a drinker...
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Thor
- Jun 24, 2021
- 1 min
Cloud Seeding
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Cloud seeding is a thing, in which silver iodide is released into the air to create cloud condensation in...
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Thor
- Jun 17, 2021
- 1 min
Cattle and Bison
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Cattle and bison are actually fairly closely related genetically, so much so they can interbreed. Many of...
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Thor
- Jun 10, 2021
- 1 min
Wolves were almost hunted to extinction.
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Wolves were also nearly hunted to extinction in the Great Plains at the same time buffalo were. The guys...
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Thor
- Jun 3, 2021
- 1 min
US Deer Population
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Deer were hunted to extinction in many parts of the US 100 years ago. Today, because of conservation...
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Thor
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
Horses, Donkeys and Mules
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! There are actually 14 different definitions for what a species is in biology. A horse and a donkey can mate...
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Thor
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
Pronghorn Antelopes
Pronghorn antelopes of the western US, Mexico and Canada are not an antelope, their closest relatives are actually giraffes. They are...
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Thor
- May 6, 2021
- 1 min
Have you ever seen a Vampire Deer?
There is a species of deer indigenous to East Asia that has vampire fangs, called the water deer, or vampire deer, it truly looks...
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Thor
- Apr 29, 2021
- 1 min
Drunk Wild Animals?
Every year in southern Africa the fruit from the marula falls and ferments on the ground turning into alcohol. The wild animals have...
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Thor
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Environmental Renewal
We in the United States are experts on both environmental degradation and environmental renewal. Bad farming and hunting habits almost...
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Thor
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
Pollution
Less than 10,000 people have died from accidents from nuclear energy, by comparison over 300,000 people die every year from pollution...
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Thor
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy and nuclear bombs are not the same thing at all. Nuclear energy is extremely clean, the white smoke coming from nuclear...
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Thor
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox is named after the physicist Enrico Fermi, the “architect of the nuclear age.” It refers to the possibility of...
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