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Posted in Canada, history & archaeology on Nov 28th, 2009
From The Ottawa Citizen: Ancient camp unearthed.
A team of archeologists working for the City of Ottawa has uncovered the oldest aboriginal camp yet found within the city limits, including stone tools and pieces of artfully decorated pottery dating from 300 BC to 700 AD.
Archeologists believe that the camp on the Rideau River was used periodically [...]
Posted in assorted on Nov 25th, 2009
From the Guardian: German banker admits transferring money from rich to help poorer clients.
In these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans. But today details emerged of a woman who may confound the popular view that everyone in the [...]
From The Atlantic: In Italy, Eating Gets Graded.
The day my daughter’s kindergarten teacher called me into her Italian classroom to tell me my child was failing lunch, I knew I had run up against the great continental culinary divide. As an American married to an Italian, I’ve lived off and on in Italy for years, [...]
Posted in animals, birds, insects, etc on Nov 18th, 2009
From wired.com: Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists.
On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.
In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybrid newcomer who’d already taken baby steps down a [...]
Posted in animals, birds, insects, etc on Nov 17th, 2009
From liveleak.com:
Paul Nicklen describes his most amazing experience as a National Geographic photographer — coming face-to-face with one of the arctic’s most vicious predators. Not only did he get to swim and take photos of a 12-foot leopard seal in the Antarctic (and didn’t get eaten), he was actually adopted by it!
You must see this, [...]