August 31, 2007 – 9:10 pm
From The Nature Conservancy.
Red-Eyed Tree Frog interactive photo slideshow.
With amphibians facing population crashes around the world, the red-eyed tree frog has become a poster species for rainforest conservation.
Every second, a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is destroyed. More than 31 million football fields of rainforest are sacrificed to unsustainable agriculture, ranching [...]
August 31, 2007 – 12:10 pm
From IHT.com.
No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo.
Public health is reeling. Pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death, the Ministry of Health says. Ambient air pollution alone is blamed for [...]
August 30, 2007 – 8:20 pm
Read article at As bees go missing, a $9.3B crisis lurks.
.. The insects aren’t very good travelers either. When a truck carrying bees gets caught in a summer traffic jam, for instance, hives quickly overheat, despite the fact that the millions of workers inside them furiously fan their wings in an attempt to prevent [...]
August 29, 2007 – 3:59 pm
The book, Buddhism And Psychotherapy Across Cultures: Essays on Theories and Practices
by Mark Unno, Editor is published by Wisdom Publications (a nonprofit charitable organization).
As Buddhism and psychotherapy have grown and diversified in Asia and the West, so too has the literature dealing with their intersection. In this collection of essays, leading voices explore many surprising [...]
August 29, 2007 – 3:57 pm
Milton Erickson is known as a pioneer in the fields of family therapy, hypnotherapy, and brief therapy, he was an unconventional therapist who adapted his practice in all manner of ways. He is known for his ability to “utilize” anything about a patient to help them change, including their beliefs, favorite words, cultural background, personal [...]
August 29, 2007 – 12:58 pm
From Daily Mail.
Four tiny orphaned hedgehogs are snuggling up to the bristles of a cleaning brush - because they think it’s their mother. Workers say Mary, Mungo, Midge and Slappy get comfort from playing with the centre’s cleaning brush and enjoy rubbing against it.
The smells on the brush, which is used to sweep a yard, [...]
August 28, 2007 – 9:18 pm
From Edge. A Photo Essay By Nathan Myhrvold.
Lions are the only truly social cat, living in groups called prides. A pride is a set of females, often but not always sisters, along with their cubs and subadult cubs. There are also one or more males, usually a coalition of two brothers, but sometimes unrelated lions. [...]