Are we looking at the last of the dinosaurs?

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Are we looking at the last of the dinosaurs?

Matthew Allard reports in AlJazeera about the Komodo Dragon being on the endangered species list.  There are only around 4,000 dragons left.

These giant lizards - the largest on earth - grow to around 10 feet long and 150 pounds!


Allard describes how a Komodo Dragon attacks its prey and upon what it preys.  He says, "Coming into contact with a Komodo for the first time, you feel like you have stepped onto the set of Jurassic Park."

The Phoenix (nee Maytag) Zoo has two Komodo Dragons on display.  I think they're pretty awesome!

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A discussion of Maritime Ship Design/Construction and Protection of the Environment

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This is a deeply incisive discussion of modern Maritime Ship Design and Construction techniques and how they take into account the need to Protect the Environment.  I find it quite reassuring, as I suspect does ExxonMobil.

Now, get back to work.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses The year open data went worldwide

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who "invented"
the World Wide Web

Post raw data on the internet, and watch what somebody does to/with it.

The internet is doing things we haven't yet thought of, and we are at the very beginning!

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In this (half-hour+) National Science Foundation (NSF) video, Kirk Johnson, Chief Curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, discusses how & why the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.

Wow!  With the impact of the Chicxulub meteorite impact, the surf must have really been up!

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"Tikkun Olam" means "healing broken worlds".

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"Tikkun Olam" means "healing broken worlds".

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Here's Jay Thomas telling David Letterman his
'Lone Ranger' story.

This is hilarious!!!

The former teenage hotrodder inside me
is still laughing so hard
tears are rolling down his cheeks!

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.. Let's go looking where there isn't anything

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Astronomers pointed the
Hubble Space Telescope at
a completely blank --
-- completely black --
part of the sky.

Here's what they saw --
where there appeared to be
nothing.

in 3-D

Gives a sense of perspective
of how big we are(n't).
Stunning

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