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MayWorld Migratory Bird Day
The Second Weekends of May and October are events observed twice each year as World Migratory Bird Day to focus world attention on the need to protect migratory bird populations, their habitats, and their international flyways. Through exchanges of … Continue reading →
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AprEarth Day
April 22, Earth Day, is celebrated around the world as tens of millions of people make time to attend their environment. Thousands of governments – from local to regional to state, provincial or federal – plan awareness campaigns and activities … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Beno Gutenberg
Beno Gutenberg
Right to the Core On June 4, 1889, geophysicist and mathematician Beno Gutenberg was born and made the study of Earth’s interior his life’s work. He was the first to determine the radius of Earth’s core. Perhaps the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beno Gutenberg, California Institute of Technology, Caltech Seismological Laboratory, Earth’s core, Gutenberg Discontinuity, June 4, On This Day, The Roberta Bondar Foundation, Vision-Changer
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When the Crust Crumbles
On April 26, 1900, physicist and seismologist Charles Francis Richter was born. A Californian intrigued by earthquakes and the waves of energy they release, he worked with Beno Gutenberg, a world authority on Earth’s interior physics and the man who … Continue reading
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Tagged April 26, Beno Gutenberg, Charles Richter, earthquakes, On This Day, Richter scale, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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