Jeanne and Susan…identical twins in their early sixties…Jeanne a life long smoker and sun worshipper…Susan has never smoked…hmmm…
Scariest vid I’ve seen in a long long time…really…just gets worse and worse…The transition out of the cage and onto the free climbing portion….arrrghhh
The Boston Globe has collected some truely mindblowing images from around the solar system…
Enjoy..
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…
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