Golden hamlet (Hypoplectrus gummigutta) swimming over tens of metres of reef
This video shows a Golden hamlet (Hypoplectrus gummigutta) swimming over tens of metres of reef towards a well-established meeting point where his mate is waiting for him. This research was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B in the paper: Pairing dynamics and the origin of species by Oscar Puebla, Eldredge Bermingham and Frederic Guichard.
The doi link for the article is http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspb.2011.1549
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A 2.6 Billion-Year-Old Mantle Periodtite @ Presque Isle, of...
A 2.6 Billion-Year-Old Mantle Periodtite @ Presque Isle, of Marquette, Michigan.
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A Tribute To Gertrude Bell
“Reading about Bell, one is struck not just by her ability to master the Arabic language and to revere and appreciate the history and culture of the Arabs, but by her political acuity. Where others saw only squabbles between nomads, she was able to discern the emergence of two great rival forces—the Wahabbis of Ibn Saud and the Hashemites of Faisal—and she stored away the knowledge for future reference. Georgina Howell occasionally overdoes the speculative and the fanciful, writing “she must have” when she lacks precise information, but she also considers questions other narratives tend to skip, such as, what does an Englishwoman in the desert, surrounded by inquisitive and hostile Turks, do when it is imperative that she relieve herself? (The answer: Take care to have a stout Arab servant who will interpose his body, then reward and nurture him for the rest of his life.) The title of the book may seem exorbitant in its flattery—and depressing in its echo of poor, mad Lady Hester Stanhope—but Bell’s bearing was such that many of the desert dwellers truly believed a queen had come to visit them.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/06/the-woman-who-made-iraq/5893/
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Gertrude Bell, a Masterful Spy and Diplomat by JAMIE TARABAY
Gertrude Bell, a Masterful Spy and Diplomat by JAMIE TARABAY:
The extraordinary British diplomat and adventurer Gertrude Bell was buried 80 years ago. After World War I, she was almost single-handedly responsible for the founding of modern Iraq, where her grave is still located. Bell was the first woman to graduate with a history degree from Oxford and became one of the country’s leading Arabists. She rode camels with the Bedouin in the Arabian desert and dined on sheep’s eyes with tribal sheikhs.
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skepttv: Croc Fossil Discovered in Cave A skeleton of a...
Croc Fossil Discovered in Cave
A skeleton of a possibly extinct crocodile is among several fossil surprises unearthed in freshwater caves of the Dominican Republic, paleontologists say.
© 2011 National Geographic
Original video produced by Phillip Lehman, Dominican Republic Speleological Society and Aquavista Films
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Ancient African Paint Factory!
Ancient African Paint Factory!:
“Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint…”
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Eco Meets the Economy
Eco Meets the Economy:
It is the kind of reality check that many eco-conscious consumers face these days. And like Mr. Alter, most have resorted to cutting their spending on a variety of items, particularly green products, which typically cost more than their non-green counterparts and can be difficult to justify, or even afford, when budgets are tight.
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Nough Said…
Nough Said…
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Great Dynasties of the World: The...
Great Dynasties of the World: The Pharaohs
Ian Sansom on the rise and fall of the kings of ancient Egypt
“‘I speak at length about Egypt,” writes Herodotus in The Histories, “because it contains more marvellous things than any other country, things too strange for words.” Herodotus was fascinated by the river Nile, and the statues and the monuments, and the fertile plain, and the country’s extraordinary history, customs, institutions. And, of course, its rulers….”
Read More Here:http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/19/pharaohs-dynasties-ian-sansom?INTCMP=SRCH
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utnereader: In short: 100 Abandoned Houses.
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Explorers Push The Limits, Despite The Risks *Exploration as a...
Explorers Push The Limits, Despite The Risks
*Exploration as a calling
*Limits of technology in remote locations
*Human tendency to overstate certain risks, and understate others
*Physical risks of working in challenging
* Overcoming fear and managing risk in difficult environments
Read More: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140637118/explorers-push-the-limits-despite-the-risks
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Researchers Find Aztec Temple Platform In Mexico Read More...
Researchers Find Aztec Temple Platform In Mexico
Read More Here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141137579
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Archaeologists Find Viking Burial Site In...
Archaeologists Find Viking Burial Site In Scotland
“Archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered the remains of a Viking chief buried with his boat, ax, sword and spear on a remote Scottish peninsula — one of the most significant Norse finds ever uncovered in Britain. The 16-foot-long (5-meter-long) grave is the first intact site of its kind to have been discovered on mainland Britain and is believed to be more than 1,000 years old. Much of the wooden boat and the Viking bones have rotted away, but scraps of wood and hundreds of metal rivets that held the vessel together remain…”
Read More Here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141496237
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utnereader: Fair Trade is a Better Brew for Anti-Capitalists:...
Fair Trade is a Better Brew for Anti-Capitalists: Remember when buying fair trade meant something revolutionary? These days, purchasing fair trade products is about as subversive as wearing a Rage Against the Machine t-shirt. Heck, you’ll even be able to add “one-of-a-kind handicrafts made by artisans in developing countries” to your online shopping cart on WalMart’s website, according to Huffington Post.
Coffee was one of the first—and most effectively marketed—fair trade products. As I write this, I’m finishing my fourth cup of fair trade coffee this morning—we usually brew two massive pots every day at the Utne Reader office. But fair trade coffee, a certified product meant to supplant the neo-colonial exploitation of farmers in the global South, has done little to impress free trade skeptics and anti-capitalists.
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The Archaeology of Love
The Archaeology of Love :
Alain Ayers & Cecilia Gelin are working together and invite everyone to work through serendipity and co-production.
Serendipity n: the gift of accidentally finding valuable or agreeable things. Serendipity is happening not by chance / accidentally but by being prepared to receive certain information in connection to your own prepared mind.
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Archaeology of Love (Poem by Murphy)
The Archaeology of Love
You have netted this dawn
From a sea of night
By the moon risen
To find what we forgot,
The palace where
A good prince walked
And a young leopard
Couched on the trees
While suns of oranges
Rose in the orchard.
In less than an hour’s
Eternal defeat
By galleys grooving
On the water hate
And oil of peace
In the cruse blazing,
Home became for us
The burning sea
And language a hiss
In the wood of oars.
Through the gorge of fate
We climbed one by one
To a scorpion plain
Dry with poppies
To bury the gold
They gave for our bodies
And I passed those years
Dumb below pines
To barter freedom
In the land of quince.
By the nets of your grace
I am brought from ash
Of time’s shopkeepers
Under the wave
To this island garden
Airy with asphodel,
Your moon raking
my early corn
As the spades ring
On our lost foundation.
I have grown to restore
From dust each room
The earthquakes lower
In a spring of doom,
To pierce beyond the fire
The cypress court
With gryphons basking,
Wander in the snow
Of almonds just before
Those petals wasting.
You have taken this night
From sea a vase
Of that dawn in spring,
And the script resolves
To a phrase we love,
You have cut in me a gypsum sky
Happy with harvesters
Fluting the day
Into orange flowers.
You have turned for ever
A generation
Of solitude
Into this field of dawn,
Though doom in waves
Will always march over,
Where I have stood
Dumb below pines
You have brought the dead
To a grove of suns.
—Richard Murphy—
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nationalgeographicmagazine: Owyhee River, Idaho Photograph by...
Owyhee River, Idaho
Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic, aerial support from Lighthawk
Owyhee River, Owyhee River Wilderness, Idaho
120 miles protected in Oregon since 1984 and 67.2 more since 1988; 171.1 miles protected in Idaho since 2009
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emlocke: Seismicity and the Strange Rubbing Boulders of the...
Seismicity and the Strange Rubbing Boulders of the Atacama Desert
[The half-ton to 8-ton boulders] appeared to be rubbed very smooth about their midsections. What could cause this in a place where Earth’s most common agent of erosion—water—is as almost nonexistent? … Over the approximately two million years that these rocks have been sitting on their sandy plain perhaps they were jostled by seismic waves. They caused them gradually grind against each other and smooth their sides. It made sense, but [University of Arizona geologist Jay Quade] never thought he’d be able to prove it.Then, on another trip to the Atacama, Quade was standing on one of these boulders, pondering their histories when a 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck. The whole landscape started moving and the sound of the grinding of rocks was loud and clear.
“It was this tremendous sound, like the chattering of thousands of little hammers,” Quade said. He’d probably have made a lot more observations about the minute-long event, except he was a bit preoccupied by the boulder he was standing on, which he had to ride like a surfboard … “I was just astonished when this earthquake came along and showed us how it worked,” Quade said. Quade will explain the phenomenon on Tuesday, 11 Oct., at the annual meeting of The Geological Society of America in Minneapolis.
(via GSA press release - The Strange Rubbing Boulders of the Atacama)
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