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Today Howard Garrett and Susan Berta of the Orca Network sent out an email update on Tokitae (Lolita), the captive Salish Sea native who has spent 40 years in substandard conditions at the Miami Seaquarium. I appreciate their ongoing efforts to free Tokitae and save other marine mammals from life as prisoners. Their news release […]
Read More Captive OrcasOriginally posted December 22nd, 2010. To throw another element into this discussion, the original Greek in the Bible indicates that Jesus was a toddler when the Magi visited, not a newborn, which may further complicate our calendar. Last night’s lunar eclipse was spectacular. It was difficult to find a good webcam view of it, but some […]
Read More Star of WonderTonight, Monday 12/20, is a full lunar eclipse. It’s the first time one has occured on the winter solstice in nearly 400 years, and the moon will be at its highest point in the sky in about 1600 years. Because we’re having rain in the Seattle area today, we might all wind up watching the […]
Read More Lunar Eclipse TonightThis is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in awhile. Some friends and I laughed so hard we cried when we watched this. Alan! Alan! Alan! Alan! http://www.wimp.com/animalvoiceovers/
Read More Animal Voice-oversThis is just too cool not to reblog. In 1901, the world’s first known analog computer was recovered from a Greek shipwreck. It wasn’t until 2006 that scientists realized what it actually was. I remember the shock waves that epiphany created.
Read More Lego AntikytheraNational Geographic’s Breaking Orbit blog just did a great feature on Space Bat: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/breakingorbit/2010/10/discovery-launch-space-bat-halloween.html. It includes the Space Bat tribute video and links to associated sites including a memorial site. Unforunately, many of the other sites listed at the memorial site don’t work. If you want to go straight to the video, click here:
Read More Space BatA country of about nine million people to the west of Nigeria is experiencing the worst flooding in its history, and I have yet to hear about it in the American media. Allow me to introduce you to Benin. Benin is a little smaller than the state of Pennsylvania. More than a quarter of its […]
Read More Flooding in BeninYesterday in Florida, Jack Horkheimer, the longtime host of “Star Gazer” on public television, died at the age of 72. Horkheimer was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium for three and a half decades. He had no formal astronomy training, but with his trademark infectious enthusiasm, brought the wonders of the universe […]
Read More Keep Looking UpTransylvanian Naked Neck?! Will it bite? After a friend told me about the Coop of Dreams tour in Everett this weekend, a junior relative and I decided to participate. She raises several breeds of chickens and sells eggs, so I figured she might get some new ideas by networking with other chicken owners. While I’ve […]
Read More Coop of DreamsAs if the Gulf oil spill isn’t horrific enough already, this week I learned that the oil could reach Miami’s Seaquarium within 30 days. The water in the marine mammal tanks there comes from the Biscayne Bay. They have what’s known as an open water system. When the oil reaches Miami, it could contaminate and […]
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