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It Takes just one Village to Save China’s Langurs

From IHT.
In 1996, when the langurs were highly endangered, Dr. Pan Wenshi, China’s premier panda biologist, came to study them in Chongzuo at what was then an abandoned military base. This was at a time when hunters were taking the canary-yellow young langurs from their cliff-face strongholds, and villagers were leveling the forest for firewood.
Pan [...]

Wenchuan Earthquake In China Could Be Followed By Another Significant Rupture

From ScienceDaily.
Researchers analyzing the May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China’s Sichuan province have found that geological stress has significantly increased on three major fault systems in the region. The magnitude 7.9 quake on May 12 has brought several nearby faults closer to failure and could trigger another major earthquake in the region.
“One great earthquake seems [...]

Phenomenal Phelps Won his Record Eighth Gold

From ESPN. (Phelps photos, slide)
Mission accomplished: Phelps earns eighth gold in medley relay.
Phenomenal Phelps wins 7th gold by 0.01 seconds to tie Spitz.
Phelps’ Miracle Finish Frame-by-Frame Underwater Photos. (Sports Illustrated)
Lezak runs down French to win 400 freestyle relay gold for U.S.
‘No way’ turns into ‘no quit’ for Jason Lezak!
Really, I thought Cavic have won the [...]

Free Symbian Software Giveaways for This Week

From then82blog.
SymbianGear.com is giving out free applications during this week. For each day, one specific application can be downloaded for free. (This info is a bit late, but still have 3 more free apps from today, they are EUROPAinfo 1.0, Advanced Brain Trainer and Handy Alarm.)
TheN82blog has links to many good and free applications.

Total Solar Eclipse Images

Total Solar Eclipse Images From Around The World. (Huffington Post)
Thousands of people gathered across Arctic regions, Siberia and China to see a total eclipse of the sun, despite Chinese warnings that it could augur bad luck.
People have been recording solar eclipses for perhaps 4,000 years, and they typically inspire a combination of dread, fascination and [...]

Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology

A distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology to map the spread of various strands of Buddhism from the distant past to the present.
In his lecture, Lewis explains the spread of Buddhism throughout the world due to the portability of Buddhism. Buddhism spreads [...]

Walking with Nokia Sports Tracker

This afternoon, I took a walk with my recently bought Nokia N82. I had already installed Nokia Sports Tracker and was eager to test it.
I created a new walking workout with autolap set to route based. Once the application starts tracking, it will record the path, location, time and number of steps I took. The [...]