Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

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Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
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From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2008-08-26

Taipei 2008 Mammoth Exhibition

One of the exhibition's organizers said the melting Siberian permafrost that uncovered the animals also held a dire warning on global warming.

The frozen remains of Yukagir and Oymiakon, two woolly mammoths uncovered from the Siberian permafrost, were unboxed at a press conference in Taipei yesterday as preparations for the nation's first mammoth exhibition got into full swing.

The organizers unboxed the head and ivory of Yukagir, a male mammoth aged between 40 and 45 years old that dates back to 18,000BC, along with the front half of the body of Oyamiakon — a year-old female that dates back to between 28,000BC and 38,000BC.

Excavated in Siberia in 2002, Yukagir still has hair and skin tissue and is one of the best-known mammoths in the world, having been seen by millions of visitors at the 2005 Aichi Expo in Japan.

Oymiakon was discovered in 2004 and is being exhibited for the first time.

Preservation experts carefully moved the delicately packaged mammoths from the container to a frozen exhibition room, which is being kept at minus 15˚C and a consistent humidity to preserve the delicate remains.

"The environmental protection and scientific issues related to the excavation of mammoths has made the exhibition richer and more diversified," said Hsiang Kuo-ning, the director of the Chinese-language United Evening News, one of the exhibition's organizers.

Hsiang said that the mammals had been discovered because of Siberia's melting permafrost, and while the mammoths might solve some of the mysteries of the Earth's prehistoric environment, their discovery has also served as a warning that global warming might destroy this wealth.

"I hope people in Taiwan can gain better knowledge of mammoths and the history of the Ice Age through the exhibition," said Innokentiy Pinigin, representative of Russia's Sakha Republic and deputy director-general of SakhaEXPOMammoth, a company that specializes in mammoth exhibition and scientific research.

The Taipei 2008 Mammoth Exhibition opens on Saturday and will run through Nov. 4 at the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall.

The show includes about 140 mammoth parts provided by the Sakha Republic, the Osaka Museum of Natural History, the National Taiwan Museum, the Chi Mei Museum and a private collector.

The exhibition will be open from 10am to 6pm daily. Admission is NT$200 for adults and NT$180 for students and seniors.


(Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/)

The China Post: Mammoth exhibit opens Friday
The largest paleontological display ever in Taiwan, the Taipei Mammoth Exhibition 2008 will be held from July 11 to November 4 at National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall, previously known as Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, in downtown Taipei. 
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