Radhu dada and I were sitting in my garden indulging in our favorite sport : SOS : Satirizing of Society. I decided to change tracks and asked him, “Dada don’t you think NDTV, by launching the Save the Tiger Campaign, is doing a great job of protecting our national animal.”“Yes. I would have been equally happy if they would also unleash a campaign to protect our national game. At the rate
The greater dwarf cloud rat, an animal which some believed to have gone extinct, has been rediscovered in Mt. Pulag National Park in the Philippines by American and Filipino scientists. It was first found on the heavily deforested Mt. Data.Project lead Lawrence Heaney: "This beautiful little animal was seen by biologists only once previously -- by a British researcher in 1896 who was given several specimens by local people, so he knew almost nothing about the ecology of the species."Researcher Danilo Balete, who captured the specimen on the mossy branch of a large tree roughly 7,700 feet up, said: "We had suspected from its broad, hand-like hind feet that it lived up in big trees, but this is the first evidence to confirm that." Source: www.sciencedaily.com
After nearly going extinct 150,000 years ago, humankind split into small groups—living in isolation for nearly a hundred thousand years before "reuniting" and migrating out of Africa, a new gene study says. At one point our species may have been down to as few as 2,000 individuals, probably due to climate change—a longstanding theory bolstered by the new findings.The research fills a gap in our understanding of what was happening in Africa before humans first left the continent. "The assumption has always been that the original population [in sub-Saharan Africa] was very small but probably a single population," said Spencer Wells, head of the Genographic Project, which oversaw the study. "Turns out, that is not the case." Continue via:
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These days it’s amazing to ear about finding plants that are thought to be extinct since most of the news just report cases of disappearing species.
This time at Cape York, far northern Australia, two thought to be extinct plants were found. The Rhaphidospora cavernarum which is a one and a half meters high [...]
In the animal kingdom and in the plants kingdom; the signs of holding on to life for some species have shown some extra-ordinary superiority and flexibility against the odds of the changes around them through maybe thousands of years or even more, of climate changes, geography changes and even the different other species that act [...]
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct (Hardcover)By Mo Willems
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In 2006, biologists for The Peregrine Fund discovered a remote and tiny population of Madagascar Pochards (Aythya innotata) made up of males, females and most encouragingly ducklings. Madagascar pochards are a medium-sized diving duck endemic to Madagascar. Formally, the stronghold of the species was Lake Alaotra but the lake has over the years degraded due to agriculture production, invasive species such as Tilapia sp. and water hyacinth in addition to pollution and run off from anthropogenically induced erosion via deforestation and soil degradation. The duck was considered "possibly extinct" just before being rediscovered. It is possible to save this species by protecting habitat where remnant populations exist and establishing the species in captivity. From my experience, most po
"Since the days of punch cards, IT has believed itself to be guardian of precious computing resources against attacks from non-technical barbarians known as “users.” This arrogant attitude, born of once-practical necessity in the era of early data centers, reflects inability to adapt to present-day realities. Such attitudes, combined with recent technological and social changes, are pushing IT to share the fate of long-extinct dinosaurs."[via zdnet]
Logo is one the most important elements of the brand identity of any company. It is the image of a company’s service or its product. It is also the level of quality or the experience one had with a particular brand. In the ancient times, logo designs were merely used as initial letters to represent [...]
The German science and rock music worlds were sent reeling earlier this week when scientists discovered the fossilized claw of what appeared to be a sea scorpion bigger and even older than the fossilized Scorpions’ front man singer Klaus Meine himself.
“Holy Scheiße,” said paleontologist Markus Poschmann after having excavated the claw from an excavation of 390 million-year-old rocks in Rhineland Palatinate he had been excavating. “This turns everything we thought we knew about paleontology and German rock music completely on its head. I mean, that this thing could be bigger than Klaus Meine shouldn’t surprise anybody, but older? Come on now. We’re talking about the friggin’ Scorpions here.”
The armored giant is thought to have been 8 feet long, weighed 400 pounds and terrorized the seas a good 400 million years ago, shortly after the release of “Winds of Change”, or so scientists had thought up until the discovery. “We now have to re-evaluate everything we h
An international conference of butterfly experts confirmed this global extinction, and many more within individual countries. It looks like butterflies, along with mountain frogs, may be a warning sign of approaching biodiversity losses.
(Via Extinction Blog)
So what we have there..hmm... better whan ALiAS rip? ))) 270 mb and ripped micsroshit logo and intro only ;) njoy and thx to RVL!!!Shocking News Update! Zoo Tycoon scientists report an unprecedented discovery to worldwide astonishment, amazement, and, frankly, a few raised eyebrows: More than 30 Extinct animals are ready to be brought back to life—just for your zoo! From the adorable dodo bird to the massive American mastodon, the ferocious saber-toothed cat, and the terrific T. rex, enchant your guests with animals from the past in Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals. Head out on a paleontology dig to search for fossils, assemble your finds, and then take them to the Extinct Research Lab to bring your Extinct animals to life! Unveil the drama of Extinct landscapes with misty springs, tar pits, glaciers—and maybe even a caveman or two. Once you’ve populated your Extinct zoo, you can research and cure diseases, and even wrangle a pack of rampaging dinosaurs in first-person mode!Do your
More than 30 Extinct animals are ready to be brought back to life-just for your zoo! From the adorable dodo bird to the massive American mastodon, the ferocious saber-toothed cat, and the terrific T. rex, enchant your guests with animals from the past in Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals. Head out on a paleontology dig to search for fossils, assemble your finds, and then take them to the Extinct Research Lab to bring your Extinct animals to life! (more…)
Here we are, inseparable from our dear little handheld mobiles and yet the takeaway will be "Hmmm... it could get extinct". To understand why, we have to understand or rather define convergence.
Defining Convergence
"Convergence" refers to the blurring of dividing lines among traditionally distinct products and services, technologies, markets, industries, and regulatory structures.
For example
A 6 year old was explaining to the other kids what "extinct" meant."Well," she said, in all seriousness, "It means that the dinosaurs are all dead and have been dead so long they don't stink anymore, and that's why they call them 'exstinkt'."
On my birthday no less!! A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus got auctioned off for $8,000, far below the expected price. The 4½-foot-long "item," covered with weathered skin and dry muscle tissue, was sold to the company that runs the Ripley's Believe It or Not museums, said Josh Chait, director of operations for the I.M. Chait Gallery, his family's auction house.
"Their corporate
The baiji or white flag dolphin survived for millions of years but was declared effectively extinct in December after a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that a man in the central province of Anhui saw and shot footage of a "big white animal" in the Yangtze river on Aug. 19. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has confirmed that the animal in the footage was a white flag dolphin, it said.
Douglas Adams wrote about it in Last Chance to See. Now that chance is most likely gone:
The researchers failed to spot any Yangtze river dolphins, also known as baijis, during an extensive six-week survey of the mammals' habitat.
The team, writing in the Royal Society Biology Letters journals, blamed unregulated fishing as the main reason behind the dolphins' demise.
It will still be almost 50 years before the river dolphin is formally classed as extinct, if there are no sightings in the wild during that time (the last sighting was in 2004).
Source: "Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'," BBC News, August 8, 2007
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Laser printing technology has long been a choice for medium and enterprise sized businesses, and that has been reasonable choice. Printing machines utilizing laser delivered high quality output at, which is crucial for larger businesses, high speed. Enter any corporate or government office to see those buzzing cubes of plastic cover and electronic inside – laser printers, copiers, and multifunction machines.
Laser has been absolutely dominating office premises, limiting inkjet printer use to home and small offices. One of the reasons of laser printers dominations was incredibly low price of black and white, printouts compared to those produced by inkjet printer. Yes, inkjet were perfect for accurate reproduction of colors, so important in a field of, say, professional photography.
However, with recent inkjet technology advancements, inkjet printers are easy to enter medium and large business sector and even dominate it.
Couple of years ago HP introduced Scalable Print Technology that
For 900 years, Moenjodaro, a city in what is now Pakistan, was the urban hub of a thriving civilization, the New York or London of its day. Around 1700 B.C., residents suddenly abandoned the Indus Valley city, and it was lost in the sands of time until archaeologists began excavating it in the 1920s. Today, visitors can wander for hundreds of acres among its deserted streets and homes.
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A new study published in the online journal PLoS Biology suggests that over 400 bird species could become endangered over the next 50 years as a direct result of global warming, deforestation, and conversion of grassland and other habitats to cropland.
The study suggests that changes in land use, changes in weather and shrinking habitats are occurring faster than bird habitat and migration patterns can adjust.
“We found in our study that under certain assumptions by the year 2100, 950 to 1,800 bird species may be imperiled or even driven to extinction by climate change and habitat destruction,” Walter Jetz, lead author of the study, said. “Most of these species are currently not recognized as imperiled.”
By projecting agricultural and land use habits as well as changes in weather over time, the authors were able to model species’ populations for the future. However, if drastic changes are made that impact global warming and human impact on habitat, these finding do not
An Indonesian fisherman hooked a rare coelacanth, a species once thought as extinct as dinosaurs, and briefly kept the ``living fossil'' alive in a quarantined pool. Justinus Lahama caught the four-foot, 110-pound fish early Saturday off Sulawesi island near Bunaken National Marine Park, which has some of the highest marine biodiversity in the world. The fish died 17 hours later, an extraordinary survival time, marine biologist Lucky Lumingas said Sunday. ``The fish should have died within two hours because this species only lives in deep, cold-sea environment,'' he said. Lumingas works at the local Sam Ratulangi University, which plans to study the carcass. The coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) was believed to be extinct for 65 million years until one was found in 1938 off Africa's coast, igniting worldwide interest. Several other specimens have since been discovered, including another off Sulawesi island in 1998. The powerful predator is highly mobile with limb-like fins, and
Layers magazine and Gary Bouton, the author of “Photoshop Elements for Dummies” offer their opinions on why traditional color selection for web & graphic designers may soon be extinct. New tools may allow designers to get the right colors, faster.
Layers magazine and Gary Bouton, the author of “Photoshop Elements for Dummies” offer their opinions on why traditional color selection for web & graphic designers may soon be extinct. New tools may allow designers to get the right colors, faster.
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A six-week search of the Yangtze for the white rivers dolphins known as Baiji has turned up no sightings. It is said to be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction in half a century. The last confirmed Baiji sighting was in 1997.
I guess it’s one way to garner attention for a few endangered species. There’s a schnazzy promo site. So will money actually save a species, or just keep it around long enough to entertain us over the holidays?
(Via Another Chance To See)
While I agree with Judge Jones, I am reminded of the fact that people have been arrested in this country for reading both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in public. With the current majority party firmly in the grip of America's own Taliban, I fear it won't be too much longer before upholding the Constitution is considered a hallmark of "judicial activism" and its practioners villified accordingly.A federal judge today declared the teaching of intelligent design in Dover Area School District unconstitutional, saying an "ill-informed faction on a school board" adopted a policy that violated the separation of church and state. In a far-reaching decision, Judge John E. Jones 3d concluded that intelligent design is not science. "In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science," Jones wrote. "We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents." He scolded
