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Happibun
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I Am Not Dead Yet is a woman from The Middle of Nowhere, England, UK
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The Odd Squad by Allan Plenderleith
Rated • 1 review • cartoons, humor, odd squad • allanplenderleith.com
We don't have a dog, but Littlest makes up for it...
Cartoon seen on Tracker29's site, and nabbed for the good cause :-)
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http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/11/sea_urchin_genom...
Rated • 0 reviews • genetics, cancer research, sea urchins • seedmagazine.com
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Study Warns: Don't Go Fish & SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
Rated • 4 reviews • marine biology, extinction, over fishing • seedmagazine.com
Fish stocks floundering
A Red Grouper, no longer to be found in the Gulf of Mexico.
Photo © Peter Schulz dixiedivers.com/points-EUA.htm [dixiedivers.com/points-EUA.htm]
From the page: "Using the global catch database from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, researchers determined that 29 percent of all currently fished species have "collapsed" their numbers have declined at least 90 percent from the highest population on record. By 2048, the scientists predict, 100 percent of our currently fished species will have collapsed."
The top link is to a review in Seed magazine of a paper published in the journal Science on Nov. 3 by an international team of ecologists. We seem to be surrounded by reports of doom and gloom about the state of the planet nowadays, it's not a new thing, I remember the warnings about what aerosol propellants could do in the late 70's. The portents of doom were initially scoffed at then, but now there's a ruddy great hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica.
The planet does not seem to be that big a place any more, and yet it's still big enough for people to think that their individual actions won't matter. We are already using resources faster than they can be replaced, and second and third world countries are enviously catching up with our rates of consumption and pollution. In the bid to be economically ahead of the game, no one country will willingly invest back in to the planet or cut back from harvesting resources. It is so much easier to ignore or slate the reports and carry on regardless.
It is human nature to want to see that we as individuals are comfortable, and our families safe. Who can blame us for that? Our inbuilt selfishness has been a smart evolutionary tactic so far, in fact it's been too successful, and it is now about to stuff us.
If we can't get individuals and nations to work together altruistically for the sake of the planet we depend on (and for our children who will inherit it), and do it soon, we as a species are screwed.
Look at the news, look around you. Do you see it happening? Do you think global co-operation is even remotely likely? Pfffft.
What has to happen before the evidence can't be refuted any more?
I'm off to dust down my fiddle. I might as well get some practice in, so I can play well as I go down with my sun cream sizzling on my skin.
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When Two Minds Think Alike & SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
Rated • 1 review • psychology, genetic traits, autism, simon baron cohen • seedmagazine.com
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Farmcraft Rare Breed Centre
Rated • 0 reviews • animals, british, farm animals, biodiversity • farmcraftholidays.co.uk
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Redirect Notice
Rated • 0 reviews • uk, kids, lincolnshire, petting farm, stickney • google.co.uk
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Fast condoms on sale in S Africa
Rated • 1 review • aids, condoms, health, south africa, safe sex • bbc.co.uk
Safety fast
Pronto condoms on sale only in South Africa.
From the page: Condoms, which promoters say can be put on in just one second, are going on sale in South Africa this week.
Bang goes any chance of foreplay then... Thank god they are not for sale over here.
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http://www.hitchnhike.co.uk/pdc/cave_guide_peak_titan.htm
Rated • 0 reviews • nature, titan, caving, biggest uk cave • hitchnhike.co.uk
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BBC NEWS | Health | Young to test artificial pancreas
Rated • 0 reviews • health, uk, tests, artificial pancreas, juvenile diabetes • bbc.co.uk
