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Talking whale

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:09:59 GMT

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POPS Speaking whales

by balthazarus Yesterday 3:46 AM 3

Uplifting is on its way... :) I wonder when will us humans learn some things from the whales?

The Great Amnesia How we became slaves to oil

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:11:00 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Lemmings come to mind.

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

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Oil really is the root of all evil

Take oil and petroleum out of the energy equation and replace it with a locally produced, locally controlled, ecological, economical, renewable resource and what happens?

95% of the world's structural problems melt away.

No more oil wars. No more money leaving our country by the hundreds of billions. No more ecological devastation related to fuel production. Greatly reduced carcinogens.

But oil is necessary for our lifestyle, right?

If it's not, how did we get hooked on oil in the first place?

History tells us the US went from whale oil to kerosene for lamps courtesy of the ingenuity of John Rockefeller and Standard Oil.

But think about something for a moment.

Prohibition was the total ban on alcohol manufacturing in the US from 1919 to 1933.

Are we to believe that these 1919-era men were led and controlled a group of 1919-era church ladies?

Does that make any sense?

whale

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:56:37 GMT

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Japanese scientists teach whale to talk

Scientists in Japan have given a beluga whale a vocabulary of three words, the first time a marine creature has been able to link a sound to an object and then repeat the sound as a 'word'.

"Right now Nack only knows three words, but we are working on the whale recognising different people and giving them a sound as well.

After that, we want to teach it to express likes and dislikes, something that is interesting instead of boring, and be able to say if something is painful," he said.

Professor Murayama said the breakthrough is the first conversation with a cetacean and that he hoped it might lead to humans and whales exchanging greetings in the not-too-distant future.

Tags: ocean

Is Twitter about to retire the whale?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:15:08 GMT

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Twitter seems to be making good on their promise to improve the stability of their microblogging service, at least when it comes to the website itself (which is what we monitor here at Pingdom). Lately, their website has shown a significant improvement in both availability and response time. Is the infamous Twitter “fail whale” facing an early retirement?

Tags: twitter fail-whale

Whales shedding blubber, Japan study says

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:10:32 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: So, in the last three years, over 20000 whales have been slaughtered to tell us that they are hungry. Any scientist could tell you that the ocean life is disappearing. The increased water temperature may also be involved.

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TOKYO (AFP) - Japan, under fire overseas for whaling it justifies as research, has released its findings -- whales are losing blubber because ocean resources are growing scarce.

But critics said the recent study, which involved the slaughter of thousands of whales, is little more than window-dressing for Japan's pursuit of commercial whaling.

AFP Photo: Fishermen slaughter a 10m-long bottlenose whale. Japan, under fire overseas for whaling it justifies as...

Japan is frequently criticised by the West for conducting annual whaling missions under the pretext of "lethal research" when most of the meat ends up in supermarkets, restaurants or school lunches.

Japan says that whaling is part of its culture but contends that it does not violate a 1986 international moratorium on hunting as it is conducting research. Only Norway and Iceland defy the moratorium outright.

The study used research on 6,779 whales, of which more than 4,500 were killed including some which were pregnant.

Tags: crap, begets

Speaking whales

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:46:43 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Uplifting is on its way...
I wonder when will us humans learn some things from the whales?

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Japanese scientists teach whale to talk

Scientists in Japan have given a beluga whale a vocabulary of three words, the first time a marine creature has been able to link a sound to an object and then repeat the sound as a 'word'.

"Right now Nack only knows three words, but we are working on the whale recognising different people and giving them a sound as well.

After that, we want to teach it to express likes and dislikes, something that is interesting instead of boring, and be able to say if something is painful," he said.

Professor Murayama said the breakthrough is the first conversation with a cetacean and that he hoped it might lead to humans and whales exchanging greetings in the not-too-distant future.

Tags: whales, intelligence, language

Valdez Whale

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:07:40 GMT

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A fisherman inspects a dead California gray whale on the northern shore of Latoucha Island, Alaska, after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
(John Gaps III/AP Photo)

Tags: valdez, whale, oil spill, exxon

Index Research: On The Road To Extinction

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:49:20 GMT

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A history lecturer recently said that if one doesn’t believe in ‘global warming’ one is put in the same category as those who do not believe in the Nazi holocaust. This research of summer 2008 articles is not only about global warming but also about species that have become extinct or are an endangered species.

1. Planet Earth: General; Air pollution; Biofuels; Coral Reefs; Dead Zones; Depleted Uranium Contamination; “Democracy,” Food (corn, rice, wheat, famine); Lakes (extinct: Greenland Lake: endangered Baikal); Nuclear Holocaust; Oil (Peak Oil, U.S. exploitation, The Car); Polar Ice; Rainforest; Water; Wetlands

2. Towards Extinction: General; Amphibians (frogs); Bees; Birds; Deer; Elephant; Fish (salmon, shark, sturgeon, tuna) Flora and Fauna (Lichen, Orchid); Mammals (deer, (elephant, lynx, kangaroo, mustang, polar bear, seal, tiger, whale, wolf, wolverine); Mammoth rhino), Primates (Great Ape, Homo Sapiens, Lemur, Monkey, Orangutan); Reptiles (lizard, turtle, tortoise.

Tags: environment, i-climate change, i-consequences, i-extinction

Jennifer Lopez Gives Tips on Triathlon Training

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:05:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jennifer Lopez brought her triathlon training to GMA today to show off her jogging skills in preparation for the September's race in Malibu.

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Jennifer Lopez is known to the world as many things — a singer, actress, designer and entrepreneur — but six months after adding "mother" to that list, the 39-year-old is taking on yet another daunting challenge.

Here is what Lopez told at Good Morning America:

It came up when I was eight months pregnant, when I was beached like a whale. I was watching TV, and I saw a triathlon and I said, 'I think I could do that.' ... Maybe we could raise some money and do something really great.

Tags: celebrity, celebritie, sexy, hot, jennifer lopez, entertainment, gossip, triathlon

nasa tracks whales, sharks and olar bears

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:19:25 GMT

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NASA Tool Helps Track Whale Sharks, Polar Bears

Photos of giant whale sharks snapped by vacationing scuba divers and snorkelers are helping scientists track the elusive marine creatures across the oceans.

And the same technique may soon also help researchers track polar bears in Canada, giant Eurasian trout in Mongolia, and ocean sunfish in the Galápagos Islands.

The participatory tracking technique is already lending new insight into the biology of whale sharks, according to Brad Norman, a research scientist from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.

And the global database of whale shark pictures indicates that some of the giant fish migrate between Mexico, Honduras, and Belize.

"We can use these data to highlight the need for international agreements to protect this threatened species," said Norman, who is a National Geographic Society emerging explorer, as well as the recipient of funding from the Rolex Awards for Enterprise.

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Free WWF Wallpaper

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:32:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These wallpapers are on the (WWF) World Wildlife Foundation website. I thought I would share them with you.

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Free WWF Wallpaper

Polar Bears	Snow Leopards	Pandas
Orangutans	Marine Mammals	Gray Wolves
Tigers	Penguins	Butterflies
Rivers at Risk	Crocodiles	Elephants
Gorillas	Rhinos	Sea Turtles
Protected Areas	The Galapagos	The Bering Sea

Polar Bear Wallpapers:

World Wildlife Fund

Tags: wallpaper, polar bear, elephant, penguin, lion, tiger, panda, dolphin, whale

More Phelps

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:01:49 GMT

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13.If you wrote an analogy about Michael Phelps it would have to say (Michael Phelps is to Michael Phelps, as Michael Phelps is to Michael Phelps) because nothing compares to Michael Phelps.

15.The English language no longer has the letter, "F" in it, phrom now on all words that previously had an "F" must now be spelled with a "PH"

18.Water craft engine power will no longer be measured by its amount of horsepower. They will now be measured in the unit Michael Phelps.

19.If you are ever asked who would win in a fight between a killer whale and a great white shark the answer is always Michael Phelps.

The ORCA digital man-overboard alarm knows who fell and where to save them

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:54:41 GMT

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The ORCA digital man-overboard alarm knows who fell and where to save them

The industrial safety and security experts over at BriarTek Incorporated got the green light (and $19 million) to test a Man Overboard Indicator, or MOBI, on 105 US Navy vessels. The Virginia-based firm's MOBI, known as the ORCA (for Overboard Recovery Communications Apparatus and not because it's a killer whale), does more than just alert a ship's crew of a sailor in the water; it keeps a unique ID for each sailor so rescuers will know who they're looking for, the downed seaman's position, and even how many people are in the water in an event where multiple sailors are cast overboard.

The crux of the system is its communication between a water-activated beacon worn by a vessel's personnel and a receiver on the bridge that would alert the command crew — rather than relying on word to travel through the ship (which can take a while, on a military ship that's several hundred feet long).

Defense Industry Daily

Tags: tech

Hopes fade for abandoned baby whale in Australia

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:12:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: sad...

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hopes of saving a baby whale abandoned by its mother in a bay north of Sydney faded late on Wednesday as the calf continued to try to suckle from a moored yacht. International experts said it had just days to live.

The humpback whale, nicknamed "Colin" by Australian media, was found at Pittwater after apparently being abandoned by its mother off Australia's east coast.

Whale calf mistakes boat for mum
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After U.S.-based whale rescue experts said the animal could not be saved without sophisticated equipment, wildlife authorities said the fast-weakening calf would probably have to be put down unless it could be paired with a migrating whale pod.

"I guess it's fair to say that we're getting close to that position at the moment. We're really, really hopeful that there can be some other possible way through," Environment Department spokesman John Dengate told Australian radio.

while it was distressing, it was natural for some animals to abandon their young

Bann visitor returns to the sea

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:18:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: such graceful animals

Clip Source: www.colerainetimes.co.uk

The porpoise that was present in the River Bann last week. PIC Joe Breen

HAVE a look at these exclusive images of the porpoise that was present in the River Bann last week.

The porpoise, nicknamed 'Squirt' took up residence in the River Bann last Thursday, and children from near and far looked on in awe.

The teenage porpoise was first reported in the River last Thursday and remained under the footbridge until Saturday afternoon.

Gary explained that reports first came in about the porpoise on Thursday: "The Northern Ireland Environment Agency and Jim Allen, from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group began monitoring the animal from Thursday.

" I've been monitoring cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) for ten years, and I've never been able to get as close to a porpoise, people don't realise how privileged there were last week."