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Blog Against Racism Day
"Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." "Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic…
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Wasp update
If you’ve been following my wasp posts you’ll know by now that there has been a variety of opinion on exactly what kind of wasp it was that showed up here in the High Arctic. The initial identification, by the Nunavut Research Centre, was that it was a Yellow Jacket (Vespula intermedia), but that has…
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Circus of the Spineless #3
Hey folks, it’s shopping time over at the inverts r us store found at Urban Dragon Hunters. That’s where you can find Circus of the Spineless #3. If you love those creatures who make their ways through the world without a backbone, then you need to head on over. And if you don’t love them,…
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A trip back in time… sort of
What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time. When the only people that existed were troglodytes… No..wait not Troglodytes, Australopithecines. Yes that’s right, Australopithecines drinking beer. What better way to celebrate the launch of a great new blog Olduvai George, a great new site brought to you from a…
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Hmm, Good AND Obscure.
Tony, of Milkriver Blog fame, is both tireless, and adept and coming up with ideas that get people involved, and perhaps to look at things a little different, you know, view askew (and yes, that is a reference to one of my favourite film makers). Now he has come up with a challenge, a meme,…
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Not-so-Yellow Jackets and Parkas
One of the truly amazing things about the Internet, is how it can link up people with some incredibly disparate bits information, or find audiences for bits of information that were never intended for it. For all of its apparent desires to rule the universe, Google sure is an incredible tool. Back in September I…
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For Whippoorwill, on the occasion of her last days at home before moving to the Big Smoke
Helpless Neil Young There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mindI still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us…
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I and The Bird – Where in the World?
Welcome to the High Arctic. One of the wonderful things about birds is that they can be found almost anywhere in the world. South Polar Skuas have been seen near the south pole, several species have been seen near the north pole. Deserts, rain forest, cloud forest, parkland, crowded cities, mid ocean, all places they…
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Light
This is the amount of light we have at 11:30am, some sixteen days after we lost the sun. See, not that bad.
