B-15A Iceberg's Close Encounter Monitored By Envisat

My step-sister is currently working at McMurdo Station and has provided me with photos of her experience. In her recent e-mails she points out the current issue with B-15A. However, she failed to point out the impact this is having on the wildlife there.

"Since then B-15A has found its way to McMurdo Sound, where its presence has blocked ocean currents and led to a build-up of sea ice. This has led to turn to resupply difficulties for the United States and New Zealand scientific stations in the vicinity and the starvation of numerous local penguins unable to forage the local sea."[link]

all her photo's

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Washington, D.C.: Bush administration comments on WMDs

"Statements by the Bush administration before and after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs:"[link] via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NASA: comparing the iceberg to Long Island

NASA has an interesting animation comparing the iceberg to Long Island. If you watch the animation for several minutes, you will see the iceberg photos merge into an animation illustrating its movement from November until last week. I recommend you send this on to your staff as I'm sure they would be interested in viewing it. [link]

"It just shot up and then it went down"

"levels by at least 3 feet in a geologically sensitive Virginia well some 9,600 miles away from the epicenter, researchers say" [link]

News Anchor Gets Attacked By Small Reptile

This is a repost of one of my favorite clips of 2004. We just got this in and it extends the scene about 30 seconds. Hilarious

[link]via Big-boys.com

Nextel Commerical

Oh Baby, Baby! A video showing some classic dance moves. [link]

A Skier Doesnt Clear Jump

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LiTraCon Bricks/Lamp

LiTraCon Bricks,

LiTraCon Lamp,
originally uploaded by es0teric.

My love for concrete art has grown considerably over the years more so since I created and installed concrete countertops in my house. Anyway, LiTracon has developed a new concrete brick that utilizing optical fibers that transmist light through the entire block. Needless to say my mind is overflowing with ideas to create.

Eruption from Black Hole

Eruption from Black Hole,
originally uploaded by es0teric.

This still from an animation depict an eruption caused by a supermassive black hole. Gas and dust seen in a reddish-brown disk are being pulled around by the enormous gravity of the supermassive black hole, which is buried in the center of a large elliptical galaxy. (Illustration: NASA/CXC/A.Hobart) www.sciencedaily.com

Restless Legs Syndrome In Children Linked To Family History, Iron Deficiency

Dr. Suresh Kotagal M.D., chair of Mayo Clinic pediatric neurology and sleep specialist has found a link between Iron Deficiency and Restless Legs syndrome in children. Interestingly enough, my mother suffers from this ailgment as an adult and in my most recent blood cultures my iron levels have been higher then average and I have no signs of this sleeping disorder. I wonder if there is any correlation. [link]:

'When we look at kids who have decreased attention span, over one-third of them will have sleep apnea or restless legs syndrome,' he says. 'We can say that it goes to further affirm the fact that inattentiveness is multifactorial -- due to depression, anxiety, stressors in the child's life, obstruction of breathing passageways, sleep apnea or restless legs. We need to look at all of these possibilities.'