The BBC has a neat game where you get to be the president of Europe (!) and guide Europe to environmental success.
“A game where you are president of the European Nations. You must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.”
It’s fun to play!
What’s Up 2007 – 365 Days of Skywatching is a free e-book that can guide you to the stars this year. The e-book is desgined to help experienced and inexperienced people find the stars for fun viewing. If you like, you can also order a printed copy.
“Each day is specifically geared to give you the best of what can be seen with the unaided eye, binoculars, and small telescopes and even has challenge objects for seasoned observers. It’s beautifully illustrated and contains many special features, such as anotated lunar maps.”
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Researches have discovered that the Earth has a heartbeat. This just sounds neat! I wonder where exactly the heart is.
“In the early half of the 20th century, Serbian physicist Milutin Milankovitch first proposed that cyclical variations in the Earth-Sun geometry can alter the Earth’s climate and these changes can be discovered in the Earth’s geological archives, which is exactly what this research team, consisting of members from the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Canada, has done.”
As I ring in the holidays with my family down in southern California, the warmth of my sunny Christmas tan is not all that has given me warm fuzzies today. I learned that this is also the greatest season of giving to great global causes by many individuals like you and me! So Christmas is not just a season of capitalism and extravagant frivolous spending after all. People all over North America are also giving back and giving more each year to good causes.Â
Here are some factoids I found from here in the US……
• $260 billion: Charitable giving in the U.S. in 2005, up 2.7 percent.
• 50 percent: Of the charitable giving of individuals is done between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.
• 77 percent: Charitable giving in the U.S. by individuals, (or $199 billion).
So if you haven’t thought about it already, maybe this is a season where you too can give back in some way! Help spread a little love around the World!
Happy holidays everyone!!
UnSuggester is a great tool to find things that you hate! I love it!
Type in a book that you really enjoy and the unsuggester will let you know what book you will find torturous. For example, here are unSuggestions Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisited by Aldous Huxley, perfectly it unSuggests that I read the Devil Wears Prada.