Pinboard: bookmarks for maciej tagged 'eco'

includes memorable “Humans are terrible athletes in terms of power and speed, but we’re phenomenal at slow and steady. We’re the tortoises of the animal kingdom,” Lieberman said. "

biology eco anthro biophysics
april 2007 by maciej

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xeno-canto :: bird songs from tropical america

huge collection of birdsong audiofiles. Just add amen break!

mp3 bird avian obsess song eco reference cool
april 2007 by maciej

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Bower Bird Blues - An Odd Bird

a bird I can relate to

bird avian courtship sex eco australia bower
january 2007 by maciej

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Media and the future of Tiger Leaping Gorge

China planning to build another inane megadam in another beautiful spot (this one in Yunnan)

enviro eco dam idiot china megaloconstruction hydrology yunnan
october 2006 by maciej

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Jane Goodall In Beijing

notes from her recent lecture

beijing goodall self-promotion chimpanzee forest eco bio lecture notes china africa leakey
october 2006 by maciej

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9. The Ordos plateau of China
reference eco environment ordos china steppe desertification
october 2006 by maciej

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The desertification of China

'The desertification rehabilitation program thus far has consisted largely of fencing in the nearby sand and erecting signs proclaiming: "Controlling the Desert, State Focus Point."'

environment eco china desert policy politics disaster
october 2006 by maciej

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Pere David's deer, Milu

However, on May 17, 1865, Pere David convinced the guards to allow him to look once over the wall. As luck would have it, a herd of these deer happened to walk by at that very moment - a moment which would amaze both the missionary and the scientific wor

eco animal zoo endangered china deer bio
october 2006 by maciej

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“World’s rubbish dump” pays price for European recycling boom

the dark underbelly of the recycling fad

china pollution eco recycling granola environment oppress
october 2006 by maciej

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Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 » ZOMBIE COCKROACHES

craziest parasitic wasp I have read about yet

insect etym wow cool bugs eco neuro
august 2006 by maciej

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | China puts price on head of rare animals

I am 300 micropatrons away from panda steak

eco lol boom china zoo orwell
august 2006 by maciej

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BBC News | China's environmental challenge

Short article on pollution problems in Beijing

china beijing pollution eco policy env
august 2006 by maciej

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Qinghai Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

biggest lake in china, has edible fish, no outlet to sea

tibet china travel want fish eco central_asia
august 2006 by maciej

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Land of Fire
self-promotion argentina blog tierra_del_fuego beaver die canada eco darwin
april 2006 by maciej

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The old way of raising cattle is now the new way - better for the animals and better for your table

Atlantic Monthly article on grass-fed beef raisers in the US

beef argentina eco bio hazard us
april 2006 by maciej

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Discover How Your Beef is Really Raised 4/17/02

Classic Michael Pollan article about industrial beef production

beef food us eco ugh argentina
april 2006 by maciej

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The Intoxicating Birds of New Guinea - National Zoo| FONZ

first known example of a poisonous bird

toxin new_guinea bio eco birds
april 2006 by maciej

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Stung - insects and the ways they hurt us

"There I was, 10 feet up a tree, holding a bag of live wasps in one hand, basically blinded with pain."

entomology bug ow pain bio eco cool
april 2006 by maciej

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Charles Darwin on Tierra del Fuego

chapter from the Voyage of the Beagle

darwin bio history memoir tierra_del_fuego patagonia chile argentina eco
march 2006 by maciej

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Beaver links

colleciton of beaver info, much of it highly pro-beaverist

beaver tierra_del_fuego eco canada bio
march 2006 by maciej

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Tierra del Fuego's beaver problem

background and 'modern, Canadian-designed traps that reduce animal suffering by immediately crushing the heads and throats of the captured beavers'

beaver crunch tierra_del_fuego patagonia argentina eco invasive blame_canada peron
march 2006 by maciej

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List of Invasive Species in Patagonia

in Spanish, with latin names

es eco patagonia argentina bio invasive
march 2006 by maciej

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Dark Portrait of a 'Painter of Light' - Los Angeles Times

fun expose of my nemesis, Thomas Kinkade

art aargh kitsch bio kinkade eco jeebus ha
march 2006 by maciej

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Vanabins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

sea squirts go to great lengths to accumulate vanadium, but no one knows why

bio metal sea marine eco mystery protein vanadium
march 2006 by maciej

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Hands off Hans Island

hilarious canuck saber-rattling article about Hans Island

arctic canada denmark nationalism eco marine oil ha idiot
march 2006 by maciej

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Russians plan to drill through into Lake Vostok

spat over whether the russians will contaminate the lake, which has been sealed off for 10 million years and might have strange life in it

exobiology antarctica drilling russia eco science geo cool fossil
march 2006 by maciej

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The Siberian Traps

info on the enormous Siberian flood basalts that coincided with the Permian extinction

geo volcanism extinction permian eco siberia
february 2006 by maciej

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California Condor Milestones

timeline of condor recovery program through early 2000's

condor eco bird grr zoo
february 2006 by maciej

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AC8, AC9 and the last days of the wild California condors

sad narrative of the california condor breeding program at its lowest point

condor bird eco extinction
february 2006 by maciej

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Magellanic Penguin Migration

Dr. Klemens Putz tells you everything you want to know about the peregrinations of the Magellanic penguin

penguin bio birds ha marine argentina eco
february 2006 by maciej

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Birds of Argentina

very comprehensive site with photos

argentina birds bio eco reference photo
january 2006 by maciej

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frontline: modern meat: interviews: michael pollan | PBS

excellent interview on beef factory farming practices in the US

meat us eco farm bio agribusiness interview pollan
december 2005 by maciej

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100 Largest Utility Plants

ranked list of biggest power plants in the US

energy eco us reference
october 2005 by maciej

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Parasitic isopod eats rose snapper's tongue, attaches itself to stub and serves as mechanical replacement

yuck yuck yuck

bio fish marine weird aargh eco
september 2005 by maciej

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"Global Warming" at a glance

exhaustive graphed datasets from a variety of sources. The scare quotes are due to the slightness of the observed trend

climate eco data reference
september 2005 by maciej

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Images of Fires on the Cuyahoga

Cleveland's very flammable river, photographed doing what it does best

doh eco pollution ha img river clevelan
september 2005 by maciej

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Most Heat Tolerant Insects

desert ants appear to define the limits of animal heat tolerance, 53 degrees C

biophysics desert eco insect cool
september 2005 by maciej

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New York City Audubon Society - list of NYC birds

very comprehensive but for unfathomable reasons they don't have photos

bird nyc bio eco reference
september 2005 by maciej

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Make a Bumble Bee House

neat idea for making a cheap set of bumblebee habitats out of coffee cans and fibrous material

insect eco craft
september 2005 by maciej

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CSIRO PUBLISHING - marine insects

very short abstract mentions coral treaders and other (~160) species of oceanic insect. Nothing else on Google for these intriguing pelagic bugs

marine insect huh eco bio
september 2005 by maciej

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Natural Hazards Observer - Colorado Drought Scenario

examines consequences of a ten-year drought in the West

drought climate eco disaster risk scenario
september 2005 by maciej

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Human Botfly, Torsalo, Dermatobia hominis

bot flies that parasatize humans

insect tropics eco bio
september 2005 by maciej

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Tree Squirrel (Rodent) Bot Fly 'Cuterebra emasculator' (Diptera)

nasty fly that parasitizes squirrels

insect eco reference bio
september 2005 by maciej

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Louisiana's Wetlands @ National Geographic Magazine

prescient national geographic disaster about the disaster facing Nola. Also a good section on the oil industry and wetlands loss

petro new_orleans hurricane disaster eco wetlands climate
september 2005 by maciej

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Praying Mantis Eats Hummingbird (Bird Watcher's Digest)

too bad dad could only be bothered to post two photos grr

bio eco nature cool insect
august 2005 by maciej

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Life at High Temperatures: inhabitants of acid pools

handy chart of low pH levels various forms of life can stand. Algae win. Buyashaka.

bio evolution extreme eco bacteria
august 2005 by maciej

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The Biology of Arable Plants: Arable Plants - a field guide

rundown on survival strategies of plants that try to grow in cultivated fields

ag bio eco farm botany
july 2005 by maciej

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New Scientist - Columbia's final launch left lingering sky glow

Columbia high-altitude launch plume apparently migrated to antarctic within four days

shuttle space nasa eco climate weather antarctica
july 2005 by maciej

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Japanese Honeybee

nifty website on the Japanese honeybee with many cool photos of an open-air nest, including thermal imaging

bio insect japan obsess eco
july 2005 by maciej

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A Lobster's Microscopic Friend. Symbion pandora - a new life form and a new phylum

bizarre creature found living on the lips of the Norwegian lobster; first new phylum discovery since 1983

bio eco sea explore
june 2005 by maciej

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The Application of Site-Specific Natural Isotope Fractionation-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (SNIF-NMR) to the Analysis of Alcoholic Beverages

using deuterium concentration and site specificity to figure out what fruit/vegetable alcohol was distilled from

booze chem eco ha nmr
june 2005 by maciej

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What's That Bug: Hornets & Wasps

great page of panicky emails with photos of exotic wasps, lovingly identified by a calm site owner

bug cool eco
june 2005 by maciej

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City of New York Parks and Recreation

interactive nyc park finder

cool nyc eco explore
may 2005 by maciej

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Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows

London times article on first experimental evidence of Atlantic conveyor faltering

climate disaster eco sea
may 2005 by maciej

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Ivory-billed woodpecker not extinct, as feared - Apr 28, 2005

everyone thought this was a Quixotic quest, and everyone was wrong

zoo cool eco
april 2005 by maciej

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Swim boy, Swim!

annoying hipster purchases and frees 20 lb Chinatown carp. Worth reading for the comment thread

eco nyc ha idiot
april 2005 by maciej

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The New York Times > Science > Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene

plants with two defective copies of gene re-create undamaged original, scientists posit an RNA backup of genome but don't know what the hell is going on

bio huh genome eco
march 2005 by maciej

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The universal ancestor -- Woese 95 (12): 6854 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

presents an annealing metaphor to explain the conflicting evidence on common ancestry of living things. Basic argument is that lateral gene transfer was dominant mode of evolution early on.

bio evolution eco
march 2005 by maciej

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Probability of Abiogenesis Calculations

brief discussion of genesis of life models targeted at creationists, excellent bibliography

bio hist eco sci
march 2005 by maciej

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Hawks May Be Awaiting the Stork

red-tailed hawks nesting on 74th street, possibly incubating eggs

nyc eco
march 2005 by maciej

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1856 article on the origins of widespread potato cultivation in ireland

hist eco bio eat
march 2005 by maciej