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Geography: Google Earth pearls #2

@ignacepelckmans' original series on Google Earth imagery is really worth checking out. It shows you beautiful scenery that is only visible from the sky, while giving some background information about the location. In this post were are taken to the mountains in Kyrgyzstan.

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Not even everyone know they exist, the so called '-stan' countries. This satellite picture comes from a mountain ridge on the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The central-Asian mountains are one of the most active regions when talking about geomorphology and it is easy to see why. Glaciers are scratching and forming the young valleys, water is cutting gullies into the hillsides, oxidation weathering processes are creating the nice red colors and an enormous amount of sediment is building a so called flood plain at the foot of the hill.

Geology: Oddball Geological Features: Part 4 - Olympus Mons on Mars

The post that caught todays eye in the field of geology is @keephy's Oddball Geological Features. This also originates form a series, one about extraordinary geological elements from around the earth (or even solar system). Here is talked about mount Olympus, a volcano on Mars that stands out because of it's enormous size. It is a really well written and very interesting article that is worth checking out!

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As I'm sure many of you already know, geology is the study of the earths physical structure and the processes that make it tick. What we learn from our own planet, theoretically should apply to other terrestrial planets as well. In the case of Mars, our knowledge of the red planet is limited to satellite imagery and the data we've collected from the four rovers we've successfully landed on the planet. While much can be gathered from this data, without actual people and scientific instruments on the planets surface, it's difficult to be ascertain what is happening on Mars geologically. However, there is one behemoth piece of evidence that Mars, had or has, similar geological processes as Earth- the massive shield volcano Olympus Mons.

Anthropology: The Anthropological view on Religion, The Supernatural and Magic : Part 2

Some of you might already know @zest as one of the most active writers in the field of anthropology with a blog full of interesting and well rewarded articles. This time he has proven worthy once again. In his second part on the anthropological view on religion, the supernatural and magic, he explains how and why these concepts are practiced by many people and cultures. As one of the few to write in his field, he surely stands out for the completeness and quality.

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The term "supernatural" needs qualification. John Beattie remarks that the trouble with distinctions such as those between "natural" and "supernatural" is that they represent a subjective view of other sociocultural systems, namely, attributing to other cultures the categories that are characteristic of western society. Although the concept "supernatural" is clear to many English speakers, it is often foreign to other languages in the sense that there is no equivalent term for it in such languages. In many languages, the term "supernatural" is thus translated by means of combinations of words in order to make it even vaguely understandable.

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