The FASTER you run, the more energy dissipated through compensating motions of the body. This is why elite sprinters have powerful upper body physiques.
Running can assist people in losing weight and staying in shape.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Saturday, 7 February 2009
Deccan Volcanism
Western India shows the fingerprints of huge volcanic activity, with enough lava to submerse the United States to a depth of 1km. Similar formations can be seen in Iceland.
Greece is one of the most geologically active areas on earth.
Theory of plate tectonics
Theory of evolution
The Indian monsoon climatologists believe is a direct result of the height of Tibet.
mountains are like icebergs.
Greece is one of the most geologically active areas on earth.
Theory of plate tectonics
Theory of evolution
The Indian monsoon climatologists believe is a direct result of the height of Tibet.
mountains are like icebergs.
How many Species of Ammonite are there?
There's over a thousand species of ammonite. You can see them on limestone pavements. In the 19th century the terms Permian, Jurassic, Cretaceous came into being.
Scientists could say Jurassic rocks in Dorset are older than Cretaceous rocks in Kent, but they could not say how old they were.
It was Lord Kelvin who came up with the idea of how to work out the age of the earth. As 19th century miners discovered, the interior of the earth is hot: increasing about 11 degrees per kilometer. Kelvin believed this heat was a relic from the formation of the earth. His idea was based on a hot object cooling over time. He collected info on temperature increase in mineshafts and came up with an estimate that the earth couldn't be more than 20 million years old. Field geologists felt this figure was far too small.
Ernest Rutherford realised elements within the earth were radioactive. So instead of the earth cooling all the time it actually had heat sources. Heat was being generated from inside the planet by radioactive decay. This laid the foundations of geochronology, the direct measurement of the age of rocks.
A theory suggests the earth started as an ocean with volcanic islands. The land is basically hardened lava. However without plants, there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. Around bubbling volcanic pools, bacteria thrived. The volcanoes also produced vast quantities of water vapour. The shallow ocean that covered earth grew deeper.
The oldest rocks in the British Isle are on the West coast of Scotland.
Oceanographers have known for a long time of a deep fault beneath the ocean off the coast of Alaska. Hot springs resorts in Alaska include the Chena resort.
Scientists could say Jurassic rocks in Dorset are older than Cretaceous rocks in Kent, but they could not say how old they were.
It was Lord Kelvin who came up with the idea of how to work out the age of the earth. As 19th century miners discovered, the interior of the earth is hot: increasing about 11 degrees per kilometer. Kelvin believed this heat was a relic from the formation of the earth. His idea was based on a hot object cooling over time. He collected info on temperature increase in mineshafts and came up with an estimate that the earth couldn't be more than 20 million years old. Field geologists felt this figure was far too small.
Ernest Rutherford realised elements within the earth were radioactive. So instead of the earth cooling all the time it actually had heat sources. Heat was being generated from inside the planet by radioactive decay. This laid the foundations of geochronology, the direct measurement of the age of rocks.
A theory suggests the earth started as an ocean with volcanic islands. The land is basically hardened lava. However without plants, there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. Around bubbling volcanic pools, bacteria thrived. The volcanoes also produced vast quantities of water vapour. The shallow ocean that covered earth grew deeper.
The oldest rocks in the British Isle are on the West coast of Scotland.
Oceanographers have known for a long time of a deep fault beneath the ocean off the coast of Alaska. Hot springs resorts in Alaska include the Chena resort.
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Elstree Studios Hertfordshire - The Home of Star Wars
Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, was where all the Star Wars films were filmed, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hertfordshire is a county north of London, north-west of Central London.
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
South Bank Show Awards in London
Theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh picks up the Producers award at the South Bank Show awards. Sir Cameron has produced many top West end hits like Les Miserables, The Witches of Eastwick and the Phantom of the Opera. Les Mis is on at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. The duration of the performance is just over 3 hours. A good guide to theatres in London can be found here.
What is a producer? money-man, risk-taker, yes - but to be a great producer you need great judgment and great belief.
What is a producer? money-man, risk-taker, yes - but to be a great producer you need great judgment and great belief.
Sunday, 25 January 2009
American Folk Music
Music of the American South, conservative, mining songs
"nobody showed me how to play the banjo, I had to learn the hard way, on my own"
Uncle Dave Macon, handles a banjo like a monkey does a peanut
I'd rather ride a wagon all the way to heaven than hell in an automobile
Blind Lemon Jefferson, he spoke his soul through his guitar. blues, the "devil music"
the mississippi delta became the heart of the blues
music was his way out of the cotton fields, they dressed nicely, they want to be taken seriously as musicians
charlie had "cat eyes", piercing grey eyes, 100 yard stare, son of Irish immigrants. Charlie would "play till the son came up" people would dance, it was a catharsis for them after a hard day in the mills.
john hurt. whatever ills there was in the world, they were healed.
blue singer: ran away from the cotton fields, ride the rails all his life as a busker, could not settle down, could not fit in, because to fit in is to be in a situation close to slavery, and in some cases, worse than slavery
By the late 1920s, the word folk was being used more and more
Carter family, it's a mountain voice, you can tell in their voice where they come from. their first recording was "Bury me under the Weeping Willow Tree" in 1927
Jimmy Rodgers was regarded as the first country music artist. for him, it was about train songs. the beginning of the idea of the South. had a blues voice. "he was a nice friendly fella". with the wall street crash the rest of america had to endure the poverty the south had to endure for decades. How can a "when we get our grocery bill we feel like writing our will" How can a poor man stand such times and live.
"I'm going to the land where there is no depression" the capturing of country styles would never be done again. "I'm going where the water tastes like wine".
it was cold. Blind Lemon Jefferson, came back to Chicago and he froze to death.
"nobody showed me how to play the banjo, I had to learn the hard way, on my own"
Uncle Dave Macon, handles a banjo like a monkey does a peanut
I'd rather ride a wagon all the way to heaven than hell in an automobile
Blind Lemon Jefferson, he spoke his soul through his guitar. blues, the "devil music"
the mississippi delta became the heart of the blues
music was his way out of the cotton fields, they dressed nicely, they want to be taken seriously as musicians
charlie had "cat eyes", piercing grey eyes, 100 yard stare, son of Irish immigrants. Charlie would "play till the son came up" people would dance, it was a catharsis for them after a hard day in the mills.
john hurt. whatever ills there was in the world, they were healed.
blue singer: ran away from the cotton fields, ride the rails all his life as a busker, could not settle down, could not fit in, because to fit in is to be in a situation close to slavery, and in some cases, worse than slavery
By the late 1920s, the word folk was being used more and more
Carter family, it's a mountain voice, you can tell in their voice where they come from. their first recording was "Bury me under the Weeping Willow Tree" in 1927
Jimmy Rodgers was regarded as the first country music artist. for him, it was about train songs. the beginning of the idea of the South. had a blues voice. "he was a nice friendly fella". with the wall street crash the rest of america had to endure the poverty the south had to endure for decades. How can a "when we get our grocery bill we feel like writing our will" How can a poor man stand such times and live.
"I'm going to the land where there is no depression" the capturing of country styles would never be done again. "I'm going where the water tastes like wine".
it was cold. Blind Lemon Jefferson, came back to Chicago and he froze to death.
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