Les alertes dans la presse se ressemblent : les grands singes semblent condamnés à disparaitre de la planète. Hominides.com fait le point sur la répartition des grands singes dans le monde, les causes de l'extinction, les moyens employés pour leur sauvegarde. Un entretien avec la primatologue (...)
Publication le 21/03/08 dans la revue Science d'une étude du fémur d'Orrorin tugenensis, le plus ancien hominidé nous ayant légué cette partie de son squelette.
Mark Glaser is traveling this week, but we’re happy to have Sokari Ekine filling in as a special guest blogger. Ekine started the award-winning Black Looks blog in 2004, and covers challenging issues such as gender, sexuality and racism. Glaser will return to the blog next Monday.
“Web 2.0 [is] (...)
mercredi 26 mars 2008 par Mikael Höök — Headline news
John Hofmeister, president of Royal Dutch Shell's US operations, was interviewed about peak oil and the supply issue on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He attacked the peak oil theory as popularized by Matthew Simmons, the author of "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World (...)
Mark Glaser is traveling this week, but we’re happy to have Sokari Ekine filling in as a special guest blogger. Ekine started the award-winning Black Looks blog in 2004, and covers challenging issues such as gender, sexuality and racism. Glaser will return to the blog next
Monday.
Within 24 (...)
samedi 22 mars 2008 par Kjell Aleklett — Headline news
Even though ExxonMobil never will use the word Peak Oil they have in fact used it by saying that the production will stay flat to 2012. Another problem that Exxon and the other majors have is that they cannot replace the yearly produced oil win new oil reserves. Instead they talk about oil (...)
Wikipedia — like Google or CNN — is a name we recognize immediately when mentioned in conversation. The collaborative online encyclopedia currently ranks 8th on the Alexa list of top web destinations. Ask anyone sitting in front of a computer to find information for you on any topic. While most (...)
State of the News Media
Massive study finds more foreign news online All-You-Can-Eat iTunes
Apple might offer unlimited tunes with iPods Great Firewall of China
Government blocking Tibet news and YouTube Verizon Wireless
Wins 700MHz auction, but Google says we all win Big Money
Slate plans yet (...)
PASCALToutes choses étant causées et causantes, aidées et aidantes, médiatement et immédiatement, et toutes s’entretenant par un lien naturel et insensible qui lie les plus éloignées et les plus différentes, je tiens impossible de connaître les parties sans connaître le tout, non plus que de connaître le tout sans connaître particulièrement les parties.
Gandhi"Vivre simplement pour que d’autres, simplement, puissent vivre. "
Albert Einstein« Aucun problème ne peut être résolu sans changer l’état d’esprit qui l’a engendré »
Marion King Hubbert"Notre ignorance n’est pas aussi vaste que notre incapacité à utiliser ce que nous savons."