I’ve seen an interesting documentary recently, it’s called Earth: Biography. It’s a visually stunning tale of our planet — how it came to be, how the volcanoes operate, what are the tectonic plates, how ice affects our climate and so on. The documentary employs computer animation to visualize some of the hypotheses it presents, but [...]
Continue reading...Once every few months a story leaks into the last pages of big papers: another species of Brazilian monkeys is under the threat of extinction. These stories have a strange effect on me: I know that chances are very low that I will ever travel to Brazil (I am of the sedentary sort), yet I [...]
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Friday, August 15, 2008