Thursday, May 3, 2012

First Person Cuter Game

This post has been ripped off from Cute Overload!

Video game nerds everywhere! Play Call of Cutie and experience the action through the eyes of a squirrel!

I must apologize to the authors at Cute Overload but I felt it necessary to rip off their content so I could share it on Google+.  Please forgive me as I think it's a worth while cause to share this with the awesome community on Google+.  Consider this a "cross-blogging-system" re-blog.

If you've reached this post, please pay tribute to Cute-Overload by visiting the original post, First Person Cuter Game.

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Check Out Adopt-A-Dinosaur

I just had to share with you this fantastic resource from Los Angeles.  The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum has started a program to help supplement their funding to maintain their exhibits.  This is a fantastic idea akin to the Adopt-A-Highway program which is all over Southern California.  Check it out!

This may be the only chance you get to see the wide range of exhibits they offer at this museum online, especially if you're not from or don't live or visit Southern California.

They have a truly amazing range of exhibits covering everything from complete skeletons of dinosaurs to rare flora-fauna and paintings.

Natural History Museum: Object of affection



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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Tanks, Jets or Scholarships?

I was just reading this article today which really made me think what we are doing in the Middle East is helping and hurting.  As pointed out by Thomas Friedman, who recently was in Amman, Jordan, we spent 100 times more supplying the Egyptian military with tanks and planes than was donated to the Lebanese for scholarships and probably did more good with the $13 million that's being used to put Lebanese students through college.

In his article, Thomas shares interviews of several people benefiting from these college scholarships and gets some somewhat obvious responses but put into context you have to wonder why we are toppling governments with one hand and undermining the very social structures which are necessary for stability in this region and at the same time educating their children and doing so much on the other hand.

Curiously it's not unlike tactics we've been using for so many years hedging our bets but the rush to force change through military might and at the same time trickling in money to change their society from within has a strange sound to it.  Perhaps I don't have the correct perspective to really understand what we're doing in the Middle East but I would wager that I'm not alone in this respect.  Obviously, Thomas felt it was worth mentioning because he took the time to travel to Jordan and wrote this fantastic article.  Maybe you could read this article too and let me know what you think.

Please read on at The New York Times, The Opinion Pages, "Tanks, Jets or Scholarships?"

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Arctic sea-ice loss didn't happen by chance

Arctic sea-ice loss didn't happen by chance.

Climate researchers use a new tack to try to eliminate the many variables which may have contributed to the recent extreme ice-cover loss being witnessed near the arctic poles and have discovered that only "green house emissions" can explain the current conditions at the poles.

Arctic Ice Melting

"In the end, only the increase in greenhouse gas concentration showed a physically plausible link with the observed sea-ice retreat. We expect a decreasing sea-ice cover for increasing greenhouse gas concentration, which is exactly what is observed," Notz explains.

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