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Reconciling Arctic Expectations with Modern Realities

Image courtesy of Bob Davies/Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Bob Davies, principal at Montgomery Sisam Architects in Canada, as part of the Cape Farewell project . I left Canada a few days ago to come to this remarkably remote place at 78 degrees north to join Cape Farewell’s global Climate/Culture Expedition . A group of 20 scientists, writers, visual artists and musicians; a delightfully odd collection of souls from around the world, will be boarding a 135 foot sailing schooner, the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cheryl Cole Named Sexiest Woman in World, Kristen Stewart Debuts on List

She may hate fame so much that she compares it to rape , but Kristen Stewart has achieved a new level of notoriety, due to her on-screen success and popularity. The Twilight Saga actress has debuted on FHM ‘s annual Sexiest Woman in the World list… all the way at number-six! In its summation of the star, the magazine pokes fun at Twihards everywhere, a dangerous game to play in our experience. It writes: With one film left in the trilogy (Eclipse), and a BAFTA Rising Star award on her sideboard, the LA-born actress is taking on more challenging roles. First she stars as jailbait rocker Joan Jett in The Runaways, then a Tony Soprano-baiting prostitute in Welcome To The Rileys and finally in K-11 she’ll play Butterfly, a male-to-female transsexual with autism, which ironically is also Twilight’s target demographic. British singer/model/TV personality Cheryl Cole topped the list. Think she deserves the number-one spot? The rest of the top 10 was filled with the usual, gorgeous suspects: Jessica Alba, Marisa Miller, Megan Fox . Ogle them below and then vote on the Sexiest Woman in the World… WHO IS THE SEXIEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD?

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Lyrids meteor shower 2010 date

The Lyrids meteor are an annual display of fairly fast meteors that may be seen any night from April 16 to 25: they are above one-half of their maximum in numbers for about a day or two centered on the date of their peak activity. This year, the peak is predicted to fall during the daylight hours (for America and Europe) on April 22. After the gibbous moon sets at about 2:30 a.m. local daylight time that morning, observers near latitude 40 degrees north will still have about 90 minutes of dark

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