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Making the past fit the future

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Making the past fit the future by digby If you think Palin’s bad, consider the “historian” who Mike Huckabee wants to force American’s to listen to a gunpoint . Right Wing Watch has the latest: Barton says that the Founding Fathers “already had the entire debate on creation and evolution,” and sided with Creationism. Of course, Charles Darwin wrote On The Origin of Species in 1859 andThe Descent of… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Hullabaloo Discovery Date : 09/06/2011 16:09 Number of articles : 2

Making the past fit the future

Tune In To Live Whale Songs on Your Computer

Photo via NOAA You can stream all sorts of nature sounds on your computer to keep you calm during the day — babbling brooks or rustling trees or ocean waves. But have you ever listening to whales singing live to you? A project called Listen to the Deep Ocean or LIDO , gives you that opportunity. But surprisingly, the tools used to record the song are tuned for something much more… spacey. Researchers trying to listen to neutrinos, which are emitted by distant stars, they’ve been able to pick up some extraordinary… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What is Really Being Done to Save the Galapagos?

Is enough being done to save the Giant Tortoises? Photo credit: Collin Dunn Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It’s developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people vs. animals. Thanks to a lecture by Ros Cameron, who works at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) on Santa Cruz island in the Galapagos, we can see it’s lot, lot, lot more complex than that. So, with that as a given, what’s actually being done now to save the Galapagos?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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If Facebook existed years ago ?

Imagine if Facebook existed since the evolution of Humans on earth , then guess how our great scientists , ancestors and all popular people of older centuries would have used it . See how great people like Issac Newton ,Galileo , Charles Darwin ,Julies Caesar , Benjamin Franklin etc would have used http://www.techvyom.com/2010/09/if-facebook-existed-years-ago.html added by: abhishek25

North Sea Suffers Crab Invasion

Even these sand crabs are nervous at the thought of a Henslow swimming crab invasion. Image credit: Balaji.B /Flickr Named after John Stevens Henslow , the Cambridge professor who gave up his place on the Beagle to Charles Darwin, Polybius henslowii —or the Henslow swimming crab—finds it most comfortable in the warm waters off the coast of Portugal. Warming ocean currents, however, have allowed the active, swimming, predator to migrate north—and the impact of its presence is beginning to ripple t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who’s Behind ‘Iamamiwhoami’ Viral Clips? Not Christina Aguilera …

Lady Gaga, Goldfrapp, MGMT, Trent Reznor suspected as source of mysterious YouTube clips. By James Montgomery A scene from an “Iamamiwhoami” clip Photo: Youtube It all started in December, with a 55-second video clip that featured plenty of trees, spindly, spooky appendages, and one particularly grisly live birth (or at least we think it’s a live birth.) Then, in early January, there was a second clip ..

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Kirk Cameron Plays the Hitler Card

Evangelical actor Kirk Cameron’s is on a serious crusade against Charles Darwin — connecting the scientist’s most famous and significant work to Adolf Hitler.

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