Have just returned from my trip to Svalbard, which was part of a course on “Climatic changes in the Arctic region” that I’m currently following…
Svalsat (link):
Fossile of a leaf…around 65 million years old:
Polar bear guard…No one leaves Longyearbyen without being armed:
Madsen @ Scott Turner Glacier:
Unbelievable place…and just 800 km from the North Pole…
Very (!) interesting award winning documentary on the Dover school district trial (Kitzmiller v. Dover) and the ramifications it has for being able to keep Intelligent Design (creationism) out of science classrooms…definitely one not to miss!
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in a [...]
An tourist shot and killed a polar bear that had pulled his travel companion out of their tent on the Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
The polar bear came into the tourist’s tent, grabbed one of them and pulled him for about 40 metres (yards) before his companion got out and shot the bear, the governor [...]
The Cove gained international attention last year when it exposed the yearly dolphin hunt that takes place near the small Japanese village of Taijii. The film contains scenes of the brutal killing of the porpoises, with the meat being sold into Japanese fish markets, despite the fact that it contains very high levels of mercury.
Acadamy [...]
Possibly the craziest display to evolve in the animal kingdom…Nothern White-faced owl.
Enjoy…
Foto essay here…horrific. Estimates of the amount of oil being discharged range from BP’s current estimate of over 5,000 barrels to as much as 100,000 barrels of crude oil… per day. Just another great reason to switch to green energy…
Christian American “talebans”…Brainwashing children…made me sick to my stomach…took me a couple of days to watch the whole thing…not because it was boring, but because it constantly triggered my gag reflex…
Anyway…Check out these quotes made by Ted Haggard…a prominent figure in this documentary and a (former) leader of The National Association of Evangelicals…“…Marriage is as [...]
If earth were to become a black hole, it’s radius would be around 9 mm…It’s believed there’s a super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy…with a radius of 7.8 million kilometers. (Source: Wikipedia - Schwarzschild radius)…..
Professor of biology Richard Dawkins and journalist/author Christopher Hitchens are planning [quote] “…a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.”
Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: “This is a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover [...]
Cool vid and really cool song by the Danish band Oh No Ono…”Swim” was last years most viewed music video on Pitchfork…
Enjoy…
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