December 2010
23 posts
Temperature Conversion Table
fakescience:
In Memoriam: Richard Holbrooke
foreignaffairsmagazine:
To commemorate the passing of Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, chief architect of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement, and Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Foreign Affairs has made available this selection of writings by and about him from our pages.
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#UKSnow is going to create travel havoc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12030233
Hundreds of Christmas travellers have been stranded at Heathrow and Gatwick airports overnight as snow continues to cause disruption across the UK.
There will be no flight arrivals at Heathrow on Sunday and only a handful of departures, while many Gatwick flights remain cancelled.
/via @wildweatherdan
Seafloor Samples Show Troubling Effects Of Oil... →
Ancient mega-lake found in Egyptian desert →
The hyper-arid deserts of western Egypt were once home to a lush mega-lake fed by the Nile River’s earliest annual floods.
Fossil fish and space shuttle radar images have defined the bed and drainage channels of the long lost lake, which at times was larger than Lake Michigan, stretching as far as 250 miles west of the Nile in southwestern Egypt.
The discovery pushes back the origin of the...
Braver. Than. Me.
thesilentchild:
Take a Swim in the Devil’s Pool
If you’re ever inZimbabwe, don’t miss the chance to take a swim in The Devil’s Pool, a small lagoon, enclosed by rocks, on the edge of one of the biggest, most beautiful waterfalls in the world, Victoria Falls. Set on Livingstone Island, at a height of 103 meters, Devil’s Pool is definitely one of the most surreal locations on...
Meandering Rivers Were Einstein’s Cup of Tea →
Meandering rivers in a cup of tea
whoorderedthat:
At Hindered Settling, geologist Zoltán Sylvester tells how Einstein—while not busy working on other things—explained how meandering rivers form using a cup of tea.
If you make your tea the old-fashioned way, ending up with a few tea leaves at the bottom of the teacup, and you start stirring the tea, you would expect the leaves to move outward,...
Out Californee way, life is different →
aberjona:
Arsenic-based life discovered in Lake Mono
So most news orgs are saying that NASA reported finding arsenic-based life on Earth; whereas the Times’ (and Wired’s) angle is that: over months, scientists “trained” the microbes from that lake to substitute arsenic for their life processes. Either way it’s cool.
