{"id":644,"date":"2011-11-28T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/?p=644"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:59:26","slug":"discovery-news-what-can-you-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2011\/11\/28\/discovery-news-what-can-you-discover\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery News – What Can You Discover?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After browsing through several not-so-interesting geography websites, I stumbled upon the Discovery News <\/a>site.\u00a0 Associated with The Discovery Channel, this site immediately caught my eye with its incredible pictures and interesting headlines.\u00a0 The site is conveniently divided into seven categories ranging between physical geography topics (Earth, Space, and Animals), more cultural geography (Human and History), and just random super cool stories (Tech & Gadgets, Adventure, and Autos).\u00a0 The website is truly engaging because of its numerous videos, photo galleries, and vast array of exciting science articles.\u00a0 Below are some of my favorite stories so far:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This incredible series of photographs <\/a>explores the phenomenon of visual color warnings in plants and animals.\u00a0 The story explains that certain colors, patterns, and visual characteristics can communicate danger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a02)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This video talks about a recent eruption of an underwater volcano<\/a>.\u00a0 It relates to the discussions we had about the lithosphere in class and the difficulty of predicting when volcanoes will erupt.\u00a0 Scientists were however, successfully able to give an 8-year time frame in which the volcano would erupt.\u00a0 Scientists said this site was easier to predict because the crust was thinner and there was a huge supply of magma.\u00a0 The video also gives a cool look at the underwater site.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In relation to Matthew Sturm\u2019s article about the changes in tree distribution as a result of climate change, this article discusses the movement of seaweed as a result of global warming<\/a>.\u00a0 Scientists believe that a profound amount of Australian seaweed is actually moving south in order to find cooler environments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Seaweed provides an important habitat and food source for many underwater animals. Image by \u00a9 Jeffrey L. Rotman\/CORBIS<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a04)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last but not least, you can even take a look at the \u201cBe as Manly as Bear Grylles Guide\u201d<\/a> because let\u2019s be honest, who doesn\u2019t love Bear Grylles?<\/p>\n

Share which stories catch your eye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After browsing through several not-so-interesting geography websites, I stumbled upon the Discovery News site.\u00a0 Associated with The Discovery Channel, this site immediately caught my eye with its incredible pictures and interesting headlines.\u00a0 The site is conveniently divided into seven categories … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1043,1046,12585,1044,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atmosphere","category-biosphere","category-fall-2011","category-hydrosphere","category-lithosphere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}