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The Times - Scientists stare into eyes of a giant squid

The biggest squid to be captured had a face that only a mother, or perhaps a marine biologist, could love —- until, perhaps, one had gazed into its eyes, which were said yesterday to be the largest on the planet.

Heh.

After days [...]

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Telegraph - Getting dug in at Highgrove for the Prince of Wales

Goodenough, 47, has just been awarded one of the most demanding jobs in horticulture. Highgrove is the Prince of Wales’s sanctuary, and its garden the place where he gives free expression to his interests and beliefs. Working for a [...]

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I saw a story on the Fox News webpage last night that Sam’s Club was limiting shoppers to 4 20lb bags of rice at a time, because people are trying to stock up in the face of rising food costs. Rising food costs I don’t care about, but buying up all the rice? That’s my [...]

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Professor Bob Carter from James Cook University in Queensland, talks to Nzone Tonight’s Allan Lee about how ordinary people can try and find out the truth about Climate Change and global warming. (Nzone Tonight is broadcast on Shine TV, Sky Digital NZ Channel 111, 6.30 and 9.30 weeknights)

Curtsy: Brett McS.

Obviously there are more [...]

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I promised whale watching pics off of Peter’s camera. There are pictures of whales that were closer (ooh, were they closer!) but I liked this sequence cuz Peter had his finger down on the ol’ repeatin’ shutter:

And, while we were on that sunset whale watching cruise, with its open bar, mai tais, and plastic cups [...]

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Telegraph - Cure for acne found, say scientists

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The Times - Global warming? Scotland sees its best snow in a decade

Only a year after experiencing its worst season, the CairnGorm Mountain resort near Aviemore is defying the doomsayers of global warming and predictions of its demise. The car park is full and the slopes busy. When the sun [...]

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After a fun weekend, we’re back (I’m back, Peter’s being dragged along) to doing useful stuff: lampshades, pillows, dishes, utensils, armchair, fake flowers, fake plants, cooking utensils, a jar to put them in, and other stuff like that.

But Twitter-readers will have noticed we went whale watching Friday night. Peter has all the better pictures on [...]

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Since Peter arrived last night, I’ve been doing more touristy things: dinner last night at Leilanis, a day bobbing around in the ocean and wandering around Lahaina, an evening daubing lotion on the bits of me I didn’t touch up properly after bobbing around in the ocean… (damnit!)

But lest you think I wasn’t getting any [...]

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The Times - This organic view is bananas Why should African farmers suffer because do-gooders are trying to cut carbon emissions? by Mick Hume

To all of the ill-effects blamed on man-made global warming, we might add one more. It appears that an obsession with climate change can make sane people warm to mad ideas. [...]

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BBC - Olympics crisis over squat loos

China is rushing to install sit-down loos for its 500,000 foreign Olympics visitors, after complaints that venues had only Asian-style squat toilets.

Eh…

An appropriately themed preoccupation with the wrong problem needing addressing.

I’m filing this under Science and Nature. …Pffffft

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Telegraph Blogs - Privatise the elephant, by Daniel Hannan

Free market principles find validation in even the unlikeliest places. Consider the report that Masai tribesmen have killed four elephants and wounded ten more close to a Kenyan game park. Amid the plunging spears and steaming gore is a lesson in how property rights encourage [...]

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Dancing Walrus - video powered by Metacafe

Amazing.

Again, make sure you’ve got your speakers on. Honestly.

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Telegraph Picture Gallery - Beasts of the Road

Oh, these made me laugh.

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Telegraph - Plane flies five passengers from US to London

A major airline is under fire from environmentalists for flying an aircraft across the Atlantic with only five passengers on board. The flight from Chicago to London meant that the plane, a Boeing 777, used 22,000 gallons of fuel. [...]

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