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Friday, May 29, 2009

Amazon Deforestation

Using satellite images from space you can follow the deforestation in one area in Brazil.

Amazon Deforestation

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Cutest Picture of the Week


"Free Ride
Although this baby giant anteater named Cyrano is growing at the rate of a pound a week, he is still nursing and riding on his mother's back as she moves around her yard in the Smithsonian National Zoo.
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Glowing Animals

National Geographic has a slide show of glowing animals. I don't really think all the pictures are of animals seeing as one of the pictures is of a tobacco plant. So, unless I am mistaken that is not an animal. The animals that glow in the dark and are naturally occuring are pretty interesting. All the science experiments where they injected some type of virus into the DNA to study brain activity or something kinda freaked me out. If you read the text it is like a virus was injected blah, blah, blah and the cool part is that the florescence is a different color! I think these scientist have to much time on their hands.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Happy Birthday to Me!

It is a little late, but I wanted to share pictures of my b-day cake from work. I heart ice cream cakes and Kevin was nice enough to order one from the newly opened Dairy Queen (it is still new to me because it was the first thing I had from there even though it opened a couple of months ago)! I think Kevin just agreed to the ice cream cake because they would put a pregnant lady on the top of it. Unfortunately, they had some trouble getting the graphic off the backing so we got to admire it for a minute before removing it to cut the cake!

For All Those in Need of a Lil' Extra Moola

10 Creative Ways to Earn Extra Money

CNN has a article on earning extra money for all those suffering from the struggling economy. I don't know that it is that creative, but it does have some good suggestions.

Friday, May 1, 2009

America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places

The National Trust for Historic Preservation puts out this list every year. I don't think it is coincidence that it is done during National Preservation Month. Going back to the list it is put together to raise awareness of threatened sites or buildings in hopes of saving them. The Cast-Iron Architecture of Galveston, Texas made the list this year. Hurricane Ike which hit Galveston in 2008 has caused serious problems with the material.