Archive For The “Nature” Category
Life Before the Dinosaurs is a blog by Art, who’s seven years old. Art dictates the heavy paleontology stuff to his mom, who does the tedious work of typing.
- 1 comment • Nature • Recommended • Web
- Tagged as: arthropods • Early Paleozoic • paleoblog • paleontology • Precambrian
This video on YouTube shows the difference in lighting between summer and winter in the far North. The video consists of two synced time lapse sequences shot by regular webcam. One sequence taken during the darkest polar night and the other during the brightest summer. Video was shot in Helsinki, capital in the south of [...]
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- Tagged as: Finland • polar night • summer • sun • sunlight • winter • YouTube
This sandstrom looks something like special effects from those Mummy movies – at least for us up north far away from the events. The storm darkened the skies over Kuwait in 25th of March 2011. What can be figured out of the description on this YouTube-video with Google translator, its uploader first thought this was [...]
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- Tagged as: Kuwait • Middle East • sandstorm • YouTube
Bacteria with a new genetic resistance to antibiotics have contaminated drinking water supply in the Indian capital of 14 million people, New Delhi. It is the first time the bacteria have been located in the wider environment outside a hospital. The gene has already invaded germs that cause cholera, dysentery and other major infections, and [...]
- Leave your comment • Health • Nature • World
- Tagged as: antibiotics • Cardiff University • cholera • drug resistancy • dysentery • India • medical tourism • monsoon • NDM-1 • self-medication • superbug • Tim Walsh • WHO
