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Yasukuni Photos

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:40:58 GMT

clipped by: Patty2007

Clip Source: www.yasukuni.or.jp

Behind the Scenes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:17:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Public Enemies photo

Clip Source: www.thedailypage.com

'bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality'

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:15:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The fact that the animal has five X and five Y chromosomes is "the weirdest thing about a very weird animal," said Ewan Birney, a co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. "In theory it means there are 25 possible sexes, though in practice that doesn't happen."

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

A DNA study found the creatures to be a mix of mammal, bird and reptile with, even more strangely, 10 sex chromosomes

Platypus proves even odder than scientists thought

At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of humour, the duck-billed platypus has finally given up its evolutionary secrets

The creature, considered one of the strangest mammals in the world, has become the latest to have its genetic code sequenced, revealing it to be a bizarre mix of mammal, bird and reptile, with very complex sexuality. While humans have two sex chromosomes, the X and Y, the platypus has 10, with five of each kind

An international team of scientists extracted DNA from a female platypus, named Glennie, reading all 2.2bn pairs of her genetic "letters". Thought to have begun to diverge from other mammals 170m years ago, the platypus has been regarded as the nearest thing biologists have to a missing link between the earliest reptiles and mammals

Public Enemies blog

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:01:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: wlkingbluepirate runs the blog I was reading about the film and saw this blog about.

Clip Source: wlkingbluepirate.blogspot.com

Here's a boy who just went bad

John Herbert Dillinger was born in a middle-class section of Indianapolis, June 22, 1903. His mother died three years later and the job of raising the boy fell to the father, John Wilson Dillinger, a grocery store owner.

Tags: film

Public Enemies photos

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:45:52 GMT

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Clip Source: publicenemiescolumbus.blogspot.com

NASA Satellite Captures Image of Cyclone Nargis Flooding in Burma [pics]

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:10:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It looks like the coast is missing........

Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the Burma coast on April 15, 2008, before Tropical Cyclone Nargis flooded the region. Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team
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NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of the Myanmar coast on May 5, 2008, showing the devastation of flooding caused by Tropical Cyclone Nargis. Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team
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> Labeled before and after images

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The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image. The fallow agricultural areas appear to have been especially hard hit. For example, Yangôn (population over 4 million) is almost completely surrounded by floods. Several large cities (population 100,000–500,000) are in the affected area. Muddy runoff colors the Gulf of Martaban turquoise.

A List of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:39:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The World Heritage List includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.

The list in the clip is actual the table view; there's a list by country here: http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en&&&&mode=list

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The World Heritage List includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.

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These include 660 cultural , 166 natural and 25 mixed properties in 141 States Parties. As of November 2007, 185 States Parties have ratified the World Heritage Convention.

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Tags: travel

Not our Party either.

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:41:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Last week it was the British Jew. This week it's the Iranian Jews that will not celebrate the birth of Israel. How long until the birth of Palestine?

Clip Source: www.ynetnews.com

Iran Jewish MP criticizes 'anti-human' Israel acts

Tehran lawmaker filling only seat allotted for Jews says Iranian Jewish community will not be celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary. 'We have nothing to do with Israel,' he says.

An Iranian Jewish leader on Wednesday said his community would not mark this week's 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, which he accused of "killing innocent" Palestinians

"We are in complete disagreement with the behavior of Israel,"

"We are Iranians. We have no relations with Israel. "

Judaism is one of three recognized minority religions in Iran.

The community has a member in the 290-seat legislature and its own schools

Four other seats are reserved for Christians and Zoroastrians

Iran's ancient Jewish community has dwindled by roughly 75% since the 1979 Islamic revolution but is still believed to be the biggest in the Middle East outside Israel,

Tehran synagogue

Tags: israel, iran, anniversary, 1948, jews

Five of the World's Hottest Volcanoes

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:22:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: check out amgumen's clip: Volcanic Eruptions seen during an Eclipse: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/12DC35AD-3184-4606-BB4D-9F6F8E41D4F6/

and The hottest spot in Antarctica: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/12A8EA54-BCBC-436F-AD06-E4D8E563FD78/

and

The Largest Lake of Acid on Earth: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5A251CDD-80F4-4E55-9633-C25907244C44/

hitchhiker08's clip: Top 33 volcanoes on Earth: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/CF65A97D-EFE1-499D-9B04-4D0F5D5C2071/

BobbyDelay's clip: Ancient Chaiten Volcano Erupts after 10,000 years: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5034DD8B-BE84-400F-B662-5EBC28B3EC4C/

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The Pacific Ring of Fire is home to 452 (over 75%) of the world's volcanoes. Volcanoes are marked in red on the map.

A Newb Shouts Out: Mount Chaitén, Chile

Located 800 miles south of Santiago, Chile, at an elevation of 3280 feet.

Thousands of people were evacuated making the small city look like a ghost town.

Kilauea Volcano

the Big Island of Hawaii, Kilauea is currently the world's most active volcano

April 2008, lava from Kiliuea flowed through the lava tube system underneath Kilauea's Thanksgiving Eve Breakout

Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala

This is Central America's most active volcano. Fuego is one of three large stratovolcanoes overlooking Guatemala's colonial town of Antigua.

Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines

the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century. It was measured as a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index

Mt. Pinatubo June 15, 1991

Mount Saint Helens, Washington, U.S.A.

May 18, 1980

50 people were killed and more than 200 square miles of land (timber and recreational)was damaged.

Dinosaur killer may have struck oil

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:17:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Larry O'Hanlon

The dinosaur-killing Chicxulub meteor might have ignited an oilfield rather than forests when it slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, say geologists.

The dinosaur-killing meteorite crashed into oily shales, researchers say. This would have caused the oil in the rocks to vaporise and ignite, making tiny carbon particles, or cenospheres, like this one

Smoke-related particles found in sediments formed at the time of the impact are strikingly similar to those created by modern high-temperature coal and oil burning, as opposed to forest fires, says Professor Simon Brassell of Indiana University.

He and colleagues from Italy and the UK publish their report on the discovery in the May issue of the journal Geology.

Evidence of some sort of large burn that may have changed the world's climate at the end of the Cretaceous has been around since the 1980s.

But scientists can't agree on just what sort of fire it was.

Howard Pyle works

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:34:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bpib.com

Tags: illustra

Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:05:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.space-travel.com

Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space

A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station to test how it can fly in zero gravity, an official said Wednesday.

Astronaut Takao Doi, 53, is set to travel on a US shuttle in March to the International Space Station, where he will be in charge of construction of a Japanese scientific testing room.

It is believed gravity is needed for a boomerang to fly back to the throwing spot, but no one has tried in zero gravity.

"Mr. Doi said he will personally carry a paper boomerang for the upcoming mission and we presume he will try it when he has spare time," said an official of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Doi reportedly decided on boomerang tests after he received a request from Yasuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion from the western Japanese metropolis of Osaka.

Doi later underwent training from the world champion on how to throw it, media reports said.

Tags: japanese

The Last

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:59:47 GMT

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Clip Source: images.usefulzero.com

Clip Source: reddit.com

Bill Clinton Last Year: "Self-financing by candidates clearly violates the spirit of campaign finance reform.” [politics] (rollingstone.com)

Dali Atomicus

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:55:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I found it interesting how they got the shot and how many tries it took to get it.

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

"Dali Atomicus" by Philippe Halsman - 1948

You can find out more about Halsman here : www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/halsman/phbio.html and i fully reccomend looking at some more of his work - his collaborations with Salvador Dali were some of the most innovative work around.

And something to note - you could do this in photoshop now easily but Halsman did not - this was shot live. It took 26 tries to get it over five hours - Halsman counted to four, Dali leapt, 3 assistants threw the cats, one threw the water from a bucket and Halsman's wife held the chair. Its all done in the camera.

Tags: salvador, dali, philippe, halsman, photography, art, photograph

Native American Wisdom Quotes

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:47:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890

Go to the site, read some more, and listen.

Clip Source: www.sapphyr.net

Native American Wisdom Quotes

Inspirational sayings, quotes, and words of wisdom from a Native American perspective, reflecting Native American beliefs, philosophy and spirituality.

Lakota Instructions for Living

Friend do it this way - that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can

with both your heart and mind.

And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,

if your heart and mind are in Unity.

When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.

And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.

If you do it that way - that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One - whatever you ask for,

that's the Way It's Going To Be.

May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,

And, above all, may silence make you strong.