Topic: PHOTO - on September 28, 2007 at 11:24:00 AM CEST
Carnivals, Festivals and Fairs of Missouri
Notley Hawkins (aka 10thavenue) has lived in Missouri his whole life. Born and raised in Columbia Missouri he studied painting and drawing at Columbia College with Sid Larson, a student of Thomas Hart Benton. He attended the University of Missouri in Columbia for his Masters degree and worked with noted artist and cartoonist Frank Stack. Notley also attended the prestigious Skowhegan School in Maine. His work is in many private collections as well as The State Historical Society of Missouri's collection.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on September 28, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
Court won't declare chimp a person
He's now got a human name - Matthew Hiasl Pan - but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
A provincial judge in the city of Wiener Neustadt dismissed the case earlier this week, ruling that the Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories had no legal standing to argue on the chimp's behalf.
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Topic: SPORT - on September 28, 2007 at 11:13:00 AM CEST
The perfect body ?
if you’re anything like me you’ll be pretty jealous of this guy, peter hiesinger.
for as long as i can remember i’ve always wanted my biceps to look like massive mouldy tomatoes - i just never knew which machine to use at the gym.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 28, 2007 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Best Science Images of 2007 Honored
A striking image of seaweed shows the complexity of even the simplest organisms.
Seen here is Irish moss—Chondrus crispus—a common Atlantic red alga that is routinely harvested for its carrageenan. The chemical is used as a thickener in many processed foods.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 28, 2007 at 11:08:00 AM CEST
Greenland's super-melty summer
The higher peaks of the Greenland icesheet spent longer melting this summer than any summer since 1988, according to a NASA funded study. The research revealed that enough snow melted in Greenland this year to cover the surface of the USA more than two times over. This so-called melting anomaly is calculated using microwave data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imaging radiometer. It refers to the difference between the number of melting days occuring in 2007 and the average number of melting days during the period 1988 to 2006.
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Topic: W A R - on September 28, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
Japanese Journalist Killed in Burma Protest Crackdown [video]
The killing of Kenji Nagai was photographed by a colleague yesterday in Rangoon, Burma. The photojournalist was one of nine killed and 11 injured when the military junta ordered troops to fire into a crowd of pro-democracy demonstrators.
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Topic: BLOG - on September 28, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
Blogger is One of Main Sources of Info for Myanmar Protest
Armed with a laptop, a blogger named Ko Htike has thrust himself into the middle of the violent crackdown against monks and other peaceful demonstrators in his homeland of Myanmar.
From more than 5,500 miles away, he’s one of the few people getting much needed information out to the world.
He runs the blog out of his London apartment, waking up at 3 a.m. every day to review the latest digitally smuggled photos, video and information that’s sent in to him.
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Topic: War and Peace - on September 28, 2007 at 11:01:00 AM CEST
Who are Burma's monks?
Monks command such respect in Burma because some 80-90% of the country's population is Buddhist, and even those who do not choose to become a "career monk" usually enter the orders for short periods of their lives, giving the monasteries a prominent role in society.
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