| 02/12/08 | BLU-RAY REVIEW: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (EclipseMagazine.com) |  |
Published 02/12/08 04:06:08
If you have read my reviews for any length of time you will know that one of my many film bias is an extreme dislike of talking animals in my movies. Generally, they creep me out and take me right out of the experience. The one exception to that rule was The Chronicles of Narnia. [...] Source : EclipseMagazine.com (subscribe) Explore : Prince |
| 02/12/08 | Bargain gifts for kids (Salon) | |
Published 02/12/08 03:33:18
Long after most holiday gifts have been broken or discarded, this present will be arriving in the mailbox, month after month -- a ($19.95 per magazine for a one-year subscription, plus free gift). Wild Animal Baby magazine, for 12 months to four years, will enchant the youngest wildlife watcher with images and interactive information about cuddly polar bears, scurrying squirrels and fuzzy,... Source : Salon (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | Gift of farm animals gives new meaning to 'away in a manger' (USA Today) | |
Published 02/12/08 02:16:52
"All our projects are examples of agroecology or green agriculture," says Ray White, a spokesman for Heifer International, a non-profit group that works to relieve hunger and poverty by providing animals, trees and other services. Among the green gift ideas: tree seedlings for $60 (a share for $10) for the environmental health of small farms, and bees ($30 for box, hive and training) Source : USA Today (subscribe) Explore : Hockey, Hockey Players, US |
| 02/12/08 | DVD Review: Growing Up - Five DVD Gift Set (Blogcritics: Video) | |
Published 02/12/08 02:12:51
Stories of Baby Animals Just in Time for the Holidays! Just in time for the holidays, Animal Planet has released the Growing Up - Five DVD Gift Set, which features "Growing Up Arctic," "Growing Up Wildcats," "Growing Up Safari," "Growing Up Wilderness," and "Growing Up Primates."Before reviewing this DVD set, I had not seen this series before (and we... Source : Blogcritics: Video (subscribe) Explore : Leisure, Outdoors |
| 02/12/08 | Choosing gifts, helping others is 'life-changing' for kids in USA (USA Today) | |
Published 02/12/08 02:01:07
Some U.S. children have learned that it's better to give than to receive by helping children in other countries. About five years ... Source : USA Today (subscribe) Explore : US |
| 02/12/08 | Choosing gifts, helping others is 'life-changing' for kids in USA (USA Today) | |
Published 02/12/08 02:01:07
Some U.S. children have learned that it's better to give than to receive by helping children in other countries. About five years ... Source : USA Today (subscribe) Explore : World |
| 02/12/08 | Video: Foxes come back from brink of extinction (MSNBC.com: Nightly News) | |
Published 02/12/08 01:12:20
Dec. 1: The Island Fox, a five-pound mammal found only on Southern California's Channel Islands, was recently in danger of disappearing, but its rapid recovery has been faster than any other endangered animal in history. NBC's Mark Mullen reports. (Nightly News) Source : MSNBC.com: Nightly News (subscribe) Explore : California |
| 02/12/08 | Podium: Animals should run free ? not sit in cages for our entertainment (The Independent) | |
Published 02/12/08 01:00:01
London Zoo's ultimate justification is conservation. But this is largely PR spin. The Born Free Foundation exposed the mostly poor conservation record of London Zoo and 12 others in the Consortium of Charitable Zoos. They house only 8 per cent of endangered mammals, just over 5 per cent of threatened birds, a mere 11 of the 1,811 at-risk amphibians and only 3.5 per cent of the species on... Source : The Independent (subscribe) Explore : Entertainment |
| 02/12/08 | New theory on how Salmon find their way back to their Scottish birthplace (Scotsman.com) | |
Published 02/12/08 01:00:00
... of North Carolina in the United States, said: "Natal homing can be explained in terms of animals learning the unique magnetic signature of their home area early in life and then retaining that information."The Earth's magnetic field varies across the globe ? each oceanic region has a different magnetic signature. Researchers believe that by remembering the unique "magnetic... Source : Scotsman.com (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | New theory on how Salmon find their way back to their Scottish birthplace (News Scotsman) | |
Published 02/12/08 01:00:00
... of North Carolina in the United States, said: "Natal homing can be explained in terms of animals learning the unique magnetic signature of their home area early in life and then retaining that information."The Earth's magnetic field varies across the globe ? each oceanic region has a different magnetic signature. Researchers believe that by remembering the unique "magnetic... Source : News Scotsman (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | Bug vs. bug: How do mosquitoes survive deadly viruses unscathed? (Scientific American) | |
Published 02/12/08 00:19:00
Why can mosquitoes carry deadly viruses without succumbing to them and live on to give humans West Nile, dengue fever, and a host of other fatal illnesses. According to new research, the insects' primitive immune systems recognize that the viruses are dangerous and slice the microbes' genetic material into harmless pieces. [More] Source : Scientific American (subscribe) Explore : Sciences |
| 02/12/08 | Animal cruelty and legalised abuse. (Indymedia ireland) | |
Published 02/12/08 00:13:28
Why do Hunters hunt? The mystery of why some people choose to be blatently cruel instead of engaging in some positive activity remains somewhat unsolved. We do know however, that animal cruelty in childhood is often associated with other signs of poor control over aggressive impulses and with parental deprivation. More importantly we are also aware that cruelty to animals is... Source : Indymedia ireland (subscribe) |
| 01/12/08 | Mudbugs and the Billy Bookcase. Swedish Crayfish at IKEA. Burbank, CA. (Deep End Dining) | |
Published 01/12/08 23:35:35
Swedish-American crayfish. Lately, it appears that the vogue and righteous thing to do as a human being who eats is to know from where one's food originates, how it gets to the table and all the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Source : Deep End Dining (subscribe) Explore : Food |
| 01/12/08 | No place like home: New theory for how salmon, sea turtles find their birthplace (Physorg) | |
Published 01/12/08 23:31:40
How marine animals find their way back to their birthplace to reproduce after migrating across thousands of miles of open ocean has mystified scientists for more than a century. But marine biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think they might finally have unraveled the secret. Source : Physorg (subscribe) Explore : North Carolina, Sciences |
| 01/12/08 | No Place Like Home: New Theory for How Salmon, Sea Turtles Find Their Birthplace (Newswise) | |
Published 01/12/08 23:00:00
How marine animals find their way back to their birthplace to reproduce after migrating across thousands of miles of open ocean has mystified scientists for more than a century. But marine biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think they might finally have unraveled the secret. Source : Newswise (subscribe) Explore : North Carolina, Sciences |
| 01/12/08 | Wildlife Epic Fail and Other Odd Schtuff (Dazed and Confuzed From Here) | |
Published 01/12/08 22:42:00
MARKLE, Ind. -- Five deer that wandered onto a highway overpass jumped to their deaths onto Interstate 69, one of them crashing through a tractor-trailer's windshield, police said. After the animals' fatal plunge, their mangled carcasses littered the expressway to the horror of motorists who approached Friday's scene in the northbound lanes of I-69. The 20- to 30-foot fall killed all five... Source : Dazed and Confuzed From Here (subscribe) |
| 01/12/08 | 30-mile debris pile becomes symbol of FEMA delays (Miami Herald) | |
Published 01/12/08 22:02:00
Two and a half months after Hurricane Ike blasted the shoreline, alligators and snakes crawl over vast piles of shattered building materials, lawn furniture, trees, boats, tanks of butane and other hazardous substances, thousands of animal carcasses, perhaps even the corpses of people killed by the storm. Source : Miami Herald (subscribe) Explore : Cities and Towns, FEMA, Richardson, Texas |
| 01/12/08 | The LA Zoo Elephant Controversy from the Other Side (LAist) | |
Published 01/12/08 20:59:04
Photo by Anikia Malone via Flickr Brenda Scott Royce, director of publications for the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association , sounded off this weekend at Huffington Post about all the elephant talk going on these days. Animal activists and Councilman Tony Cardenas want the exhibit currently under construction to halt work and have a search a large expansive elephant sanctuary. Royce, along... Source : LAist (subscribe) Explore : Leisure, Los Angeles, Zoo |
| 01/12/08 | Do we really need to bring back the mammoth? (The Telegraph) | |
Published 01/12/08 20:48:36
... have missed meeting by only a few thousand years". But how easy would it actually be to clone such animals ? or indeed our Neanderthal cousins, whose genome is also being catalogued? And would we really want to create mammoth reserves in Russia, or share our commute with a short, hairy sub-species of humanity that died out around 30,000 years ago?The consensus is that while Dr... Source : The Telegraph (subscribe) |
| 01/12/08 | The ?Mad Men? Dilemma, and Other Culture Highlights From This Week's ?New York? (Vulture) | |
Published 01/12/08 20:15:47
In this week's issue of New York : Are we suffering from Quality Show Fatigue ? Adam Sternbergh investigates. Need a primer on indie culture? Here's one! David Browne drops in on Golden Animals . David Edelstein reviews Frost/Nixon and Cadillac Records . Stephanie Zacharek reviews Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate . Dan Kois reviews Blasted . Jesse Oxfeld raps with Pal Joey 's Stockard... Source : Vulture (subscribe) Explore : Cinema, Cities and Towns, Music, New York, New York City |
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