Turtle safety puts shallow Gulf of Mexico off-limits to longliners
WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2009 (ENS) – An emergency fisheries closure to protect threatened sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico was announced Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. Conservation groups were pleased with the move, but commercial fishermen said many small businesses will go under as a result. The six-month closure [...]
Read More »SUNFiltered fave music videos
To end your work week on a musical note, each Friday we plan to bring you a roundup of some of our favorite and most creative music videos circulating around the Internets. Here’s our first selection – more after the jump.
Fight Like Apes – Tie Me up in Jackets from Eoghan Kidney on Vimeo.
Over 1300 paintings were created for this video. [Via]
Read More »A different perspective
Winner of the 2008 Hyères Festival International de Mode & de Photographie, Audrey Corregan is a French photographer who currently lives in Amsterdam. Her latest series, “Obviously,” she captures images of birds from behind. A lot of her work is conceptual, exploring form and the nature of perspective. The Hyères Festival website has this tibit [...]
Read More »Van Halen’s iconic logo was almost not so iconic
As Idolator reports, someone on Ebay is selling the original cover proof for Van Halen’s eponymous 1978 debut album. Compared to the actual cover, which introduced one of the truly iconic rock-band logos, this discarded version is underwhelming indeed:
Read More »Swine flu spreading in USA, Mexican border remains open
WASHINGTON, DC, April 30, 2009 (ENS) – There is no need to close the U.S.-Mexico border despite more confirmed cases of swine flu A/H1N1 identified across the United States, U.S. government officials said today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak is “intensifying” with 109 confirmed cases now in 11 states and [...]
Read More »Evolutionary psychologists do it with blinders on
photo:gniliep Evolutionary psychology can be so annoying sometimes. Like when it tries to explain women’s modern-day preference for pink as some left-over instinct from hunter-gatherer days when they needed to be good at gathering berries, completely disregarding the fact that in the early 1900s pink was the color of choice for little boys and blue [...]
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