more on the Gulf spill

CNN's Brooke Baldwin and Rick Sanchez speak to Jean-Michel Cousteau about the consequences of the Gulf Coast oil spill.

Sustainable seafood practices

CNN: Added On April 22, 2010
Sustainable seafood practices are discussed in light of efforts to conserve food sources. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.

Apropos of Earth Day I thought I should share this.

Eyjafjallajökull

No, I don't know how to pronounce it either. However, I note that Wikipedia has a sound file,here, which is bit too quick to be helpful for my slow ears. Also, they note that "...the first fissure occurred at Fimmvörðuháls." Fimmvörðuháls! How can Icelanders understand each other with words like that, let alone give each other directions?

CNN re Sumatra's disappearing forests

"Rainforests turned into smoldering ruins
By Arwa Damon, CNN
December 6, 2009 7:51 p.m. EST"

the url to this story is here.

the real news: multiyear sea ice

Various items 15 Mar 09

from Dead Horse[Reuters video] Turkey: Skull found at suspected mass grave.


Foreign Policy, March 2009, "The Worst Kind of Stimulus: why a global weapons boom is the last thing we need" by
Travis Sharp

from Fora TV[video]: Does the US Spend Too Much on Foreign Aid? - Peter Singer(longer version here).

??AIDS and Germ warfare [video]

Two items from 2007; I never posted them and they merit being noted:

Gary Farber discusses the reputation of Gregg Easterbrook, which he deems inflated.

CNN's Arwa Damon on prostitution in Iraq

finally, from Slate, Feb. 2003: "who's for the war, who's against it"

Naomi Oreskes and the American denial of global warming

Staring at the sun

Apparently a sundog, or a parhelic circle, is an "atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals."
AP photo taken in Kerala, India by S. K. Mohan



And this is a Dragon blood tree, found on the "virtually untouched Yemeni Island of Socotra, a site of global importance for biodiversity conservation, located in the Indian Ocean."
AFP photo by Khaled Fazaa.

gribby gribby gribby

I confess that I agree w xymphora: if you have to have an online gallery of unretouched photos of HRC looking grotesque or otherwise unflatteringly posed, at least include this photo.



"When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible."-Jomo Kenyatta

Return of the native (puffins)

photo: visitmaine.com

I suppose Return of the Puffin is not as cool-sounding as Night of the Iguana or Day of the Dolphin, but then again this is a blog post and not a screenplay. Suppose it'd work as a title for an episode of Dangermouse, or The Tick. There's a Washington Post/AP article out about the once nearly-extinct puffins of Maine repopulating their old hangouts with the help of biologists, here.

Speaking of tics, I also wonder how long I can keep this titling tic going.