Brent Ward
@geobrentatlarge.bsky.social
SFU Earth Sciences, Quaternary Geologist, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, purveyor of Natural Hazards, Climate Change of the past and the future, Long suffering Canucks fan, loves woolly mammoths (he, him, his)
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Great comprehensive article.
But a little disappointed that they don’t discuss the possibility that it is brain eating aliens. Would explain everything! If this was a documentary on Discovery, they would have definitely found someone to discuss the alien possibility!
But a little disappointed that they don’t discuss the possibility that it is brain eating aliens. Would explain everything! If this was a documentary on Discovery, they would have definitely found someone to discuss the alien possibility!
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Great comprehensive article.
But a little disappointed that they don’t discuss the possibility that it is brain eating aliens. Would explain everything! If this was a documentary on Discovery, they would have definitely found someone to discuss the alien possibility!
But a little disappointed that they don’t discuss the possibility that it is brain eating aliens. Would explain everything! If this was a documentary on Discovery, they would have definitely found someone to discuss the alien possibility!
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Kitchen cabinet installation gone bad! No notes!
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Kitchen cabinet installation gone bad! No notes!
Kitchen cabinet installation gone bad! No notes!
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Kitchen cabinet installation gone bad! No notes!
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Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold ⚒️🧪
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Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold.
Paleoecological records suggest that the transition to agriculture marked a pivotal turning point in the environmental history of our planet. Tropical forests have been reduced by agricultural expa…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold ⚒️🧪
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/f...
paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/f...
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A map of all instances where a driver has hit a pedestrian in Vancouver in the past 5 years. The largest circle on this map (Main & Hastings) represents 37 crashes. Source: ICBC
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A map of all instances where a driver has hit a pedestrian in Vancouver in the past 5 years. The largest circle on this map (Main & Hastings) represents 37 crashes. Source: ICBC
Anyone know what kind of owl this is? Flew right by us and sat in the tree. In Victoria. Sorry not the best picture
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Anyone know what kind of owl this is? Flew right by us and sat in the tree. In Victoria. Sorry not the best picture
I didn’t have replacing all the stuff in a kitchen on my weekend bingo card but here I am!
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I didn’t have replacing all the stuff in a kitchen on my weekend bingo card but here I am!
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I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
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Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Just hanging out!
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just hanging out!
Thanks US for letting your politics leak up here! P_lease keep JD focused on couches and other issues in the US. We definitely need a better border. Interestingly, the Ice Cap Management company that made the graph is very pro-fossil fuels! Coincidence? I think not!
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JD Vance blames immigration for Canada's 'stagnating' living standards | CBC News
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all th...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thanks US for letting your politics leak up here! P_lease keep JD focused on couches and other issues in the US. We definitely need a better border. Interestingly, the Ice Cap Management company that made the graph is very pro-fossil fuels! Coincidence? I think not!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Yesterday was two year since my heart attack! What better way to celebrate than having whisky with 36,000 year old ice wedge ice from Eureka Creek, Yukon with colleagues from the Pacific Geoscience Centre! From left to right, Taimi, Randy, Tark, me. Picture of the slightly dirty ice.
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yesterday was two year since my heart attack! What better way to celebrate than having whisky with 36,000 year old ice wedge ice from Eureka Creek, Yukon with colleagues from the Pacific Geoscience Centre! From left to right, Taimi, Randy, Tark, me. Picture of the slightly dirty ice.
Wildlife encounters on my walk today at the Pacific Geoscience Center. Many seals on a dock. A blue heron and a kingfisher on a breakwater, and a seal frolicking at the end of the big dock. What a great place to work!
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Wildlife encounters on my walk today at the Pacific Geoscience Center. Many seals on a dock. A blue heron and a kingfisher on a breakwater, and a seal frolicking at the end of the big dock. What a great place to work!
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This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is incredibly accurate😬
A “Maga Years” explainer…
A “Maga Years” explainer…
Is this like years ago tobacco companies giving free cigarettes to people?
Amazon's Zoox opens free robotaxi rides for early users in parts of San Francisco reut.rs/49W6jze
Amazon's Zoox opens free robotaxi rides for early users in parts of San Francisco
Amazon's self-driving unit Zoox started offering free rides to some early users in parts of San Francisco, it said on Tuesday, as it steps up expansion amid rising competition in the autonomous ride-hailing sector.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Is this like years ago tobacco companies giving free cigarettes to people?
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Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
person woman man two all beef patties special sauce camera TV lettuce cheese Hannibal Lecter pickles onions Arnold Palmer's schlong shark electricity on a cofveve sesame seed bun
Really good article on the whole ostrich fiasco in central BC. Not surprising the connection to the "freedom convoy people". Hopefully it is accessible to non-subscribers:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Who Would Want to Kill 314 Ostriches?
How the plight of a few hundred birds in Canada became an all-out fight for freedom
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November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Really good article on the whole ostrich fiasco in central BC. Not surprising the connection to the "freedom convoy people". Hopefully it is accessible to non-subscribers:
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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On Nov. 18, 1929, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Newfoundland.
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On Nov. 18, 1929, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Newfoundland.
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
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As usual, an excellent well researched article by Tyler.
STORY: 4 years after the 2021 floods and landslides, major promises linger. There is no federal money to stop a future Nooksack Flood of Sumas Prairie. There is no national flood insurance program. And BC's new Flood Strategy lacks the funding to actually see it through.
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BC’s Flood Prevention Promises Remain Unfulfilled | The Tyee
After the 2021 atmospheric river, governments preached averting over recovery. Locals remember. Do politicians?
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November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As usual, an excellent well researched article by Tyler.
Congresswoman in leopard face eating party surprised when the leopards eat her face.
Irony is so, so dead.
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Irony is so, so dead.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Trump for 'vicious' attacks after saying her company received a pipe bomb threat
The Republican congresswoman warned that Trump and other conservatives calling her a traitor "could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome."
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Congresswoman in leopard face eating party surprised when the leopards eat her face.
Irony is so, so dead.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Irony is so, so dead.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Friends got some new kittens! So we had to drop by and visit!
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Friends got some new kittens! So we had to drop by and visit!
Leah watching birds outside the window reminds me of a far side cartoon….1.2
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Leah watching birds outside the window reminds me of a far side cartoon….1.2
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THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
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Seems like the Christian Nazi thing to do.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Seems like the Christian Nazi thing to do.
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One of the reasons why this weekend's storm system is looking so impressive is that the associated airmass will be among the moistest on record for November in SoCal, with record or near-record column water vapor and integrated vapor transport in some areas. #CAwx
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
One of the reasons why this weekend's storm system is looking so impressive is that the associated airmass will be among the moistest on record for November in SoCal, with record or near-record column water vapor and integrated vapor transport in some areas. #CAwx