That didn’t take too long.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010*
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Images: (basic billboard pix) via treehugger.com; (oiled Pelican) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com; (clean Pelican) via kookaburra.typepad.com
Archive for the 'Nature' Category
Between Rounds at Sunnyside Gardens…
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010*
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(Charlie Riedel, Associated Press / May 15, 2010) via chicagotribune.com
The scenes they never show us.
Friday, May 7th, 2010*
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Image: (bird) AP Photo via thinkprogress.com
Amtrak Trials First Cow-Powered Train–Manchester Guardian headline, 4/27/2010
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010*
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Erstwhile mule-skinner Rusty Ketchum leads the
Afternoon Congressional out of Washington, D.C.’s Union Station
and accelerates the train to 180 m.p.h. on the first long
straight section of roadbed. The electric-diesel livestock are imports from the 4-H Club of Wister, Oklahoma and require almost daily
maintenance by a hand-picked crew of six technicians.
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The actual story is here.
Images: (train) […]
Reason 4,867. Why China Is Eating Our Lunch:
Sunday, February 21st, 2010science + religion today
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Feb 19, 2010
What Texas Thinks of Evolution
According to a poll conducted by the University of Texas and The Texas Tribune, 30 percent of people in the state believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and more than half—51 percent—don’t believe that “human beings, as we know them today, developed […]
How will they determine the difference?
Monday, January 25th, 2010Movie made by chimpanzees to be broadcast on television
By Matt Walker, Editor, Earth News
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There were far worse movies than THE OSCAR, but those films did not require an all-star cast to be horrible. I suggest you rent this epic because it will keep you in stitches. Certain bad movies transcend their mediocrity to rise to […]
I’m a sucker for Nature stories.
Monday, January 18th, 2010Mutually-Beneficial Animal Relationships
Huffington Post
First Posted: 01- 4-10 07:48 AM | Updated: 01- 4-10 07:52 AM
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Images: Most are via Huffington Post and marked at bottom right. (Ant suitcase) mcli.dist.maricopa.edu; (barber smock) triangle.kudzu.com (Scope bottle) petrasoap.com;
Buffalo’s Debt Collectors Accused of Bullying–Associated Press headline, January 6, 2010…
Monday, January 11th, 2010That’s bad, but it could be worse…
“Bull Durham County Debt Collectors Accused of Buffaloing”
Demi Moore: I’m 47, How Am I Supposed To Look?–Huffington Post headline
Saturday, December 19th, 2009*
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This is the photograph which accompanied the article.
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Vegetarian Spider Bagheera Kiplingi Found In Central America–The Daily Telegraph headline
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009*
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Image: adult female Bagheera kiplingi eats Beltian body harvested from ant-acacia / R. L. Curry
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Image: (macrame) farm4.static.flickr.com; (earth shoes) via unicyclist.com; (headband & tie dye) afunvampire.com via images.buycostumes.com;