Clipmarks | dakotayii's clipshttp://clipmarks.com/clipper/dakotayii/date/2008/5/3/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/dakotayii/date/2008/5/3/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-usPollution From East Asia to North Americahttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3EB66817-F98F-4E5A-BBAC-3A1A3B762E57/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/amgumen/">amgumen</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://geology.com/nasa/monitoring-pollution-by-satellite.shtml" title="http://geology.com/nasa/monitoring-pollution-by-satellite.shtml">geology.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/amgumen/512/C86610B0-5469-4748-B941-274B0A28FF5E.jpg" alt="particulate pollution" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD align="left"> Optical depth of particulate pollution. Much of this pollution is industrial but some is caused by fires. NASA Image. </TD></tr></table></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/amgumen/512/C1CFF8D8-32D2-42B9-8339-07BF9FD01991.jpg" alt="pollution from china blowing east" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>A pool of air pollution has spread out over eastern China and then slipped over the coast like water over a dam. A river of haze flows across the East China Sea past the Korean Peninsula and northeastward toward Japan, where it arcs along the western coastline of the island chain before disappearing out of the scene at upper right. </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/amgumen/512/A3CF39E0-EFEE-496F-9167-4ADBFB87253D.gif" alt="carbon monoxide moving east" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">This false-color image shows concentrations of carbon monoxide at an altitude of roughly 18,000 feet (500 millibars) in the atmosphere off the coast of Asia and out over the Pacific Ocean.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/amgumen/512/FB707B36-4920-4B66-8663-27017AD1918F.jpg" alt="China smog moving over Kirea" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV> Skies over China have darkened in the past five decades, thanks to a nine-fold increase fossil-fuel emissions. In January 2006, Yun Qian and collaborators reported this finding in Geophysical Research Letters. According to the Associated Press, Qian stated that pollution absorbs and reflects sunlight, allowing less of it to reach China’s urban areas.</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/environment/" rel="tag">environment</a></div>http://geology.com/nasa/monitoring-pollution-by-satellite.shtmlSun, 04 May 2008 00:25:31 GMTBeauty ans Truth in Physicshttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E85B5020-B1ED-473B-87A7-727921A16C35/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/NS-Clips/">NS-Clips</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/194" title="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/194">www.ted.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1><A href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks" class="grey">Talks</A> <SPAN> Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics</SPAN></H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="mediacontainer"> <DIV class="placeholder"> </DIV> </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="about"> <H3>About this Talk</H3> <P> Wielding laypeople's terms and a sense of humor, Nobel Prize winner <A target="_blank" href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/173">Murray Gell-Mann</A> drops some knowledge about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? Can the fundamental law, the so-called "theory of everything," really explain everything? His answers will surprise you. </P> <H3>About Murray Gell-Mann</H3> <P> Murray Gell-Mann brings visibility to a crucial aspect of our existence that we can't actually see: elemental particles. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for introducing quarks, one of two fundamental ingredients for all matter in the universe. <A href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/173">Read full bio <SPAN class="bull">»</SPAN></A> </P>   </DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/194Sat, 03 May 2008 17:07:34 GMTRock Balancinghttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/537F7A85-0F78-49F1-BE55-61ED660DD6D6/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/JohnWaterman/">JohnWaterman</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/rockbalance.htm" title="http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/rockbalance.htm">www.slightlywarped.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P dir="ltr"> <B><FONT face="Verdana" color="#292c29">In what must be an incredible show of patience and preciseness, there are people in this weird world we all share that make a practice of balancing seemingly implacable rocks on top of each other.  The result is surreal and quiet beautiful... if for nothing more than its apparent impossibility.</FONT></B></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/11AE64E8-116A-4C50-8465-491252D8FA42.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/6A69B0B6-490A-47BC-AF99-AF2AD2BFD9E8.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/CEBF8B1F-1E20-448B-85EC-118CDE2C694B.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/18FB6E04-2C5F-42ED-BFB3-D01D9F959C76.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Rockbalance_england.jpg&oldid=207767585" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Rockbalance_england.jpg&oldid=207767585">en.wikipedia.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/EC8F768E-4483-4BEB-B73B-41952BD901A3.jpg" alt="Image:Rockbalance england.jpg" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:One-balanced-rock.jpg" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:One-balanced-rock.jpg">en.wikipedia.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/3D90911D-5AF7-4E2B-92AB-99713F22F659.jpg" alt="Image:One-balanced-rock.jpg" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/" title="http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/">www.rock-on-rock-on.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/ADE70200-AEA1-41A4-8420-878AA89D9785.jpg" alt="Balancing Rocks at Crissy Field July 5, 2003" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.westportnow.com/archives/week_2004_08_22.htm" title="http://www.westportnow.com/archives/week_2004_08_22.htm">www.westportnow.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/JohnWaterman/512/D945BC0E-2D9C-4A99-B0BF-E073F30838C4.jpg" alt="rocks082804.jpg" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/rockbalance.htmSat, 03 May 2008 14:09:30 GMTMost Complicated Watches In the Worldhttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/AC9CBAE1-184A-474A-BA24-2D7A53B73C88/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/birdie-brain/">birdie-brain</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> ooh I want the first one <img src="http://clipmarks.com/images/icons/smilies/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.popgive.com/2008/04/most-complicated-watches-on-earth.html" title="http://www.popgive.com/2008/04/most-complicated-watches-on-earth.html">www.popgive.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/59371EF1-8FA5-4C11-9607-7E9BF80C9999.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/C1B8AC8F-0F24-4745-912B-FAB2745FEB4D.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/5EFFC24A-2B57-4C3F-96AD-350E77D3580D.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/3ADA7D73-F6CF-4444-B379-A53F58E5032C.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/A602908B-EA99-4D76-B764-0DB4B8A94346.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/10FA16DF-FC57-446C-9D25-9DD14F2AE44E.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/2B5E00D1-4C60-40CA-BEE7-32792A071570.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/DBE311E4-BF83-4A07-8E22-743542827F86.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/B308F56C-CCCC-407B-BF67-63CA4B077BEA.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/birdie-brain/512/18672909-870A-4C2E-B504-B310F17FE2FA.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.popgive.com/2008/04/most-complicated-watches-on-earth.htmlSat, 03 May 2008 06:48:01 GMT