About 400 penguins have washed ashore on Brazilian beaches this year, which experts say is an unusually high number. While it's not uncommon for a small number of penguins to wash ashore in Brazil, their number have...
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Diving Medicine - Lesley ThomsonMost of my diving has been in cold water. Not just the American definition of cold water, being anything less than 18ºC, but properly cold! UK winter diving of 5-6ºC for example, or...
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Diving Medicine - Lesley Thomson Most of my diving has been in cold water. Not just the American definition of cold water, being anything less than 18ºC, but properly cold! UK winter diving of 5-6ºC for example,...
How much do we really know about the history of our world and the migrations of its surface? It now seems that scientists have discovered mineralogical similarities between Antarctica and North America, implying that...
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This is the first time I've seen this done. Pretty cool. Fan geo-location."Over 1.4 million unique users have downloaded the free Nine Inch Nails album The Slip, according to the band, since they posted...
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This makes me just so sad.Penguin numbers are dwindling fast meaning that the world's oceans are in trouble and a species that scientists thought would be relatively safe from the human impacts of global warming are...
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Yes it's them condoms in the South Pole again. My brother is down there right now sitting in the 24 hour darkness making a ton of money, he said he will talk to me again to-morrow! Tomorrow is not until the end of winter, I telt him.
McMurdo Station in the...
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After a case of mobile misuse a teenage Singaporean have been debarred from using mobile phone for one year. " A Singapore man has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year after he was found guilty of secretly filming a woman in an airport toilet, a newspaper...
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The researchers et al at McMurdo Base in Antarctica are the exceptionally delighted recipients of not only 16 boxes, or even 16 dozen boxes - try, 16,500 colorful little (depends who you ask!) joy enhancing...
Remember, it's all for the science."WELLINGTON (Reuters) - One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday."How many is considered a year's supply and...
3 Words.........."Run Penguins Run"!!!"Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darknessReutersPublished: Monday, June 09, 2008WELLINGTON (Reuters) - One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in...
Like a human science team, this crowd of robots can not only split up a task list, but argue over who does what. No word on if they can grow beards, but I'd add that as a feature request.Aside from obvious...
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A court in Japan will start hearing the case of whale meat theft by a ship crew. The workers are accused of stealing whale meat from the Southern Ocean hunt, in a criminal complaint filed by Greenpeace...
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It makes me all warm and gooey inside knowing there are still rich, eccentric adventurers out there."Russian Fedor Konyukhov completed the first solo circumnavigation of Antarctica in his 26m craft, throwing down the...
"It was a mighty ark. 140 metres long according to the Bible. However most scientists agree that still would not have been enough to hold the millions of species that have been discovered on earth.As next week's meeting of the UN Convention on Biological...