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  • two brothers and the blue fin tuna


    ken wilson onlineAuthority Authority: 103
    Why should human beings care about whether the population of blue fin tuna is decimated by overfishing?   Its pretty unusual in the realm of living things for one species to care about the fortunes of another, even though we live in a delicate balance of competition and cooperation with all other living things.  ...
    7 hours ago
  • Deadly combo of bad luck and climate change may have killed Neanderthals


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    London, November 9 (ANI): A scientist has suggested that the Neanderthals might have gone extinct because of a deadly combination of bad luck and climate change.According to a report in New Scientist, the scientist in question is evolutionary ecologist Clive Finlayson.The Neanderthals, a race of cavemen who ruled ...
    15 hours ago
  • Lawrence Solomon: Top environmental group downplays global warming threat


    FP CommentAuthority Authority: 606
    One of the world’s top environmentalorganizations, the UN-affiliated International Union for the Conservation ofNature (IUCN), has publicly stated that global warming is being overhyped. The Geneva-basedorganization made the surprising comments with regard to the often-heard claimthat global warming is the chief ...
    18 hours ago
  • Obama slower than Bush in protecting Americas endangered species


    Mongabay.com NewsAuthority Authority: 136
    In George W. Bushs eight years as president, he placed 62 species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), an average of eight species per year. While, Bushs slow pace in protecting endangered species frustrated environmentalists in light of continued decline among many species, Obama is moving even ...
    1 day ago
  • Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett


    Mongabay.com NewsAuthority Authority: 136
    A large flying fox eats a fruit ingesting its seeds. Flying over the tropical forests it eventually deposits the seeds at the base of another tree far from the first. One of these seeds takes root, sprouts, and in thirty years time a new tree waits for another flying fox to spread its speed. In the Southeast Asian ...
    1 day ago
  • Move Over Jared Diamond


    Simple Country PhysicistAuthority Authority: 128
    While we’re being philosophical, U have to make comment on this cartoon, [Link] I can attest to this as a former miniatures gamer who now suffers from the delusion that (a) if you go to the gym enough you’ll get spry enough again to game, and (b) your flavor of miniatures gaming will come back into ...
    1 day ago
  • Albanian Computer


    Simple Country PhysicistAuthority Authority: 128
    I got used to this philosophy when I was working for the Yankee army, but seeing this cartoon, [Link] puts me in mind that it’s an acceptable outcome to the Joe Consumer who wants an appliance, which is the message the cartoonist wanted to convey. It’s not the one organizations want to convey. They want to ...
    1 day ago
  • Mac Tonnies


    WeblogskyAuthority Authority: 113
    Mac Tonnies would definitely have been part of FringeWare . Check out his bio (though I would disagree with the second sentence). Consciousness is a potential technology; we are exquisite machines, nothing less than sentient patterns . As such, there’s no convincing technical reason we can’t eventually ...
    1 day ago
  • Are Cougars Really Extinct in Ontario, Canada?


    EcoWorldlyAuthority Authority: 604
    The Eastern Cougar has become somewhat like big foot in some parts of Ontario, particularly Southern Ontario; while they once thrived in that region, the last documented living cougar in Ontario was recorded in 1938. Around this stage the Eastern Cougar was moved to the extinct list in the province of Ontario in ...
    1 day ago
  • Are Cougars Really Extinct in Ontario, Canada?


    Renewable Energy News SyndicatorAuthority Authority: 162
    The Eastern Cougar has become somewhat like big foot in some parts of Ontario, particularly Southern Ontario; while they once thrived in that region, the last documented living cougar in Ontario was recorded in 1938. Around this stage the Eastern Cougar was moved to the extinct list in the province of Ontario in ...
    1 day ago
  • Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction


    Life within meAuthority Authority: 136
    Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
    2 days ago
  • Fossil Fuels May Have Caused Mass Extinction


    EarthFirst.comAuthority Authority: 497
    Fossil fuels don’t exactly have a good reputation as it is – they’re incredibly environmentally destructive, and bear the brunt of the blame for our current situation with global warming. Now, experts are saying that “a frenzy of hydrocarbon burning” millions of years ago might have caused the most dramatic, ...
    2 days ago
  • Bonk: Brink of Extinction – 30s teaser from Hudson Gamer’s Day ‘09


    Gamer InvestmentsAuthority Authority: 586
    Link -Justin
    3 days ago
  • Rare deer breed at Kanpur zoo


    World Zoo TodayAuthority Authority: 443
    Abhinav Malhotra – The Times of India KANPUR: Here is a piece of good news for all nature and wildlife lovers. Three Thamin deer (critically endangered specie of deer) have recently given birth to healthy fawns (one each) at the Kanpur zoological park. Thamins, which are also known as ‘Brow Antlered Deer’ or ...
    3 days ago
  • Bonk: Brink of Extinction Preview: Bringing Back Baldness [Preview]


    KotakuAuthority Authority: 820
    I have an enormous soft spot for Bonk because his game was synonymous with "the cool babysitter is coming over tonight and hes bringing his Nintendo." How could a kid resist? My fondness for baldness has faded since that idyllic time (thanks, puberty) and I no longer need a babysitter to supply my Nintendo fix. ...
    3 days ago
  • Endurance


    The Book of Barely Imagined BeingsAuthority Authority: 426
    Predictions made over the last decade about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity may be exaggerated. -- report.
    3 days ago
  • The Weakness of Humans


    Simple Country PhysicistAuthority Authority: 128
    Courtesy of U Chicago, some statistics. [Link] They deal with changes in the beliefs, at least as indicated by a survey, of Americans between 1964 (or slightly later) and now. Belief in deity but not a personal deity: 0.05 -> 0.10; Belief in deity: 0.99 -> 0.92; Never attend services: 0.09 -> 0.22; ...
    3 days ago
  • Last duck-billed dinos lived in European continent before mass extinction


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    Washington, November 6 (ANI): In a new research, Spanish scientists have determined that the hadrosaurs, the so-called ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs, were the last of their kind to inhabit the European continent before disappearing during the K/T extinction event that occurred 65.5 million years ago. The researchers ...
    3 days ago
  • The Death of a Race


    A Philosopher's BlogAuthority Authority: 130
    Image via Wikipedia We know for a fact that one intelligent race died off on earth. This race was, of course, the Neanderthals and their race came to and end about 30,000 years ago . What we do not know for sure is why they perished. While figuring this out is important for science, it is also important for ...
    3 days ago
  • THE SOFT PACK


    unevideorocktouslesmatinscafaitdubienAuthority Authority: 124
    Extinction CE SOIR à LA CIGALE - festival des INROCKS
    3 days ago

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