Biosphere

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• Winter music

  
  { feuilleton } — Authority: 532
  Kjendalskronebrae, Nordfjord, Norway (c. 1900). From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via Wood s Lot . Are you suffering list fatigue yet? I certainly have been, especially from the apparently endless “best ___ of the decade” catalogues which would have you believe that the significant ...
  6 days ago

• Original Sin

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 632
  Mike Treder has a post at IEET that reads like a catechism of the Gaian religion. Now I’m a firm supporter of freedom of religion and Mike has a perfect right to believe what he does and indeed to preach it to whomever will listen. (And besides, Mike is a friend of mine.) But in this particular article he takes ...
  1 week ago

• Copenhagen

  
  The Toynbee convector — Authority: 121
  Isn’t this a conference that should go on for months in order to get real work done, like the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, flawed though many of its decisions were – or years, like the Council of Trent?Posted in The biosphere
  1 week ago

• Saturn’s Hexagon and the Bulava Spiral: Nota Bene #2009-45

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 509
  “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history” … ...
  1 week ago

• Ooty Lake

  
  itslife.in | Vegetarian Recipes | Travel | Festivals | Arts and Crafts | Gardening | Flower Arrangements — Authority: 130
  Not a single bollywood movie would be complete without a song being picturized with the hero and heroein boating in Ooty Lake. The lake is an artificial lake built by the founder of Ooty John Sullivan, in 1823-25 by blocking the rainwater streaming from the hills into the valley. The lake situated behind [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Bryan Caplan on the Wisdom of Repugnance

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 565
  Discussing Leon Kass, Bryan Caplan writes : My point is not that repugnance is less than 100% reliable. 100% reliability is a silly standard. My point is that repugnance is habitually unreliable. In any case, there are several useful ways to test the wisdom of repugnance. Under what conditions do we ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Benefits of Entering a Photo Competition

  
  IENACE — Authority: 139
  There are literally hundreds of photography contests every year. If you are an aspiring or seasoned photographer, here is why you should think about entering some of the many competitions now open. Are you: - A professional photographer? - An amateur photography enthusiast? - Someone with a camera and a creative ...
  2 weeks ago

• At Least They’re Taking Global Warming Seriously

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 565
  The (UK) Telegraph reports the grand finale of the UN Climate Summit: Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges And that’s just to get Al Gore there! (I keed, I keed !)
  3 weeks ago

• Hot Air

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 565
  There may be a smoking gun lurking somewhere in the hacked e-mails now unimaginatively referred to as ClimateGate, but my best guess is that it’s going to be a starter pistol firing blanks. Of course, I could well be wrong. My opinion on the topic of Anthropogenic Global Warming is more or less worthless because ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama Just Says No to Hookers and Blow

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 565
  With a hat tip to Reason’s Hit & Run, ABC News reports : As President Obama prepares to formally announce ideas on Tuesday for a new jobs bill, one thing that won’t be on the list to spur job growth: legalizing prostitution, gambling, drugs and non-violent crime. Prompted by a rather bizarre question ...
  3 weeks ago

• International Year of Biodiversity 2010

  
  UNESCO in the Spotlight: Science and Communications — Authority: 127
  The UN-declared International Year of Biodiversity marks the 2010 Biodiversity Target aiming to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by this date. UNESCO joins the Convention on Biological Diversity, the lead UN body and other UN, international and national partners to make the IYB an effective ...
  3 weeks ago

• My Reasons, Which I Cannot Escape

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 565
  Longtime commenter stuartl asks : [W]hat motivates or justifies refraining from causing animals pain? IOW, why do you, Jason, and Chris think it is wrong? [Despite, that is, my repeated insistence that "animal rights" is an incoherent concept.] Why do I refrain from causing animals pain? Because doing so makes ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Which I Am, After All, a Genetic Engineering Fanboy

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 565
  This is the best news I’ve read in a long time: Researchers in the Netherlands created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it. No one has yet tasted their produce, but it is believed the artificial meat ...
  3 weeks ago

• Uncontacted Tribe Lands Bulldozed by Brazilian Ranchers

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 129
  A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Paraguay, inhabited by an uncontacted tribe is being bulldozed by Brazilian cattle ranchers. A government representative and two relatives of the tribe have tried to enter the region, but personnel from the ranchers company, Yaguarete Pora S.A, barred them. The reserve, in the Chaco ...
  4 weeks ago

• Biosphere Expeditions: Turtle conservation, Western Australia

  
  Ways To Protect Our Environment — Authority: 140
  expeditions, environmental volunteer, volunteer opportunities, volunteer projects, voluntary work, volunteer holidays. Mitforscherreisen, Freiwilligenarbeit, Mitforschungsreisen, Forschungsreisen, Abenteuerurlaub, Abenteuerreisen, Naturreisen, Expeditionsreisen, Ökotourismus, Ökoreisen, Bildungsreisen, ecotourisme, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rethinking Light & Sound

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image by blprnt_van via Flickr The director of the Census of Marine Life on broadening the scope of global change to include illumination and noise. “ Son et lumiѐre ”—sound and light—may stir thoughts of a clamorous and brilliant display on a holiday evening, animating Versailles, the pyramids ...
  5 weeks ago

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