Update Jan11/10 8:00 AM (PST): Well, as daylight rises here on the Western hemisphere, tweeters are busy twittering about small earthquakes from all over the place. Significantly, overnight the planet...
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Sarah Palin formally stepped down as the Governer of Alaska 18 months before the end of her term at a public barbeque in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks Alaska where 5,000 people had gathered. Palin made an impassioned...
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I received pictures this morning from family in Fairbanks Alaska. There are only a few but they are beautiful. Some taken off the back porch at sunrise. Some with Moose tracks through out the back yard. I've also...
As published in the Boston Herald, Michael and Sigret Cook, were married on Christmas Day in a 20 minute ceremony in a ice chapel built for that event. The couple, Michael Cook and Sigret Ball, met over the...
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Governor Sarah Palin spoke to CTV's Canada Am from Fairbanks Alaska today, just after signing the deal with TransCanada pipeline. She's granted the company US$500 million to plan the pipeline, with...
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The Larch might be seen as an evergreen tree, but it drops its needles each fall. Native to the taiga, widespread although not the most common tree, the fall brings the change of color from green to...
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"Energetically WrongSeptember 12, 2008Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close.SummaryPalin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy."...
The Governor's campaign ride arrived about 7:30, two hours behind schedule at the Alaska AeroFuel hangar, Sadler Plaza. The crowd of 3000+ had been there starting about 4:30 and was still enthusiastic. About 70...
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Outside Fairbanks, in a remote lake I noticed two adult swans and two juveniles in the water. Latter, I learned that the swans were Trumpeter Swans which were in the brink of extinction due to heavy hunting. Now...
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Two Republicans, one a former representative from Iowa and the other a former Alaska legislator, have come out and publicly supported the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama."Barack Obama likes to talk about...
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Some more wildlife animals are on the brink of extinction because of global warming. "Polar bears may not be the only Arctic wildlife threatened by global warming. Scientists have discovered that Arctic foxes also struggle as the ice disappears because they rely on the...
"In the permafrost bottom of the 200-meter-deep sea, enormous stores of gas hydrates lie dormant in mighty frozen layers of sediment. The carbon content of the ice-and-methane mixture here is estimated at 540 billion tons. "This submarine hydrate was considered stable until...
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Fuel Cell technology has come a long way recently and should be a major player in the "green" vehicle market within the next few years. Although ethanol is promising, there are issues with it such as creating...
created by ifindtrends | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2118 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
In the spring of 2002, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill threw down the gauntlet to other nationally ranked universities. They would drop binding early decision (ED), in which an applicant agrees...
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