Artist, naturalist, writer, poet, leader, “Grandfather of the Slow Food Movement”. If you’ve never heard Wendell Berry speak, you need to check this out!
I know Wend isn’t named for the great man–but maybe he could be the mascot. ;)
Enjoy! And have a Wend-y New Year!
Green energy spending creates jobs for all types, even rock climbers.
There is an interesting article in the New York Times about how rope companies — which have historically taken such cool niche jobs as inspecting big dams, cleaning Mount Rushmore, repairing offshore oil platforms and trimming massive trees — are now keeping busy fixing wind [...]
A new breed of fish has been developed by Japanese scientists in order to create a humane alternative to dissection. The transparent goldfish has scales and skin that are completely pigment-less, so that its internal organs are visible — heart, brain and all.
[Via: NY Daily News]
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It’s one of the biggest monsters in all of surfing. Check out the wipeout just past two minutes. Scary.
Austria’s anti-doping goons have provisionally suspended 2002 Olympic cross-country ski champion Christian Hoffman for alleged blood doping.
There is a certain irony to the accusations. In the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Hoffman was awarded the gold medal in the 30 km freestyle mass start event despite coming in 2nd to Spain’s Johann Muhlegg, [...]
In 2008 seventy-six-year-old Nepalese man Min Bahadur Sherchan reached the peak of Mount Everest, making him the oldest person to ever climb the 29,028 foot mountain all the way to the top. But when the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records came out he saw that the title had been mistakenly awarded to seventy-five-year-old Japanese [...]
According to scientists, the magnetic north pole is careening towards Russia at a pace of 34-37 miles a year. The predicted cause for the pole’s increase in movement is a rapidly fluctuating magnetic region on the core’s surface created by a plume of magnetism developing deep within the core.
While movement of the magnetic north pole [...]
The service at one Roman Catholic Church in Quebec is about to get a lot less boring. The church, which has been on the real estate market for two years, was recently purchased by a developer who is going to gut the building and convert it to a rock climbing gym. But church officials aren’t [...]
For biologists studying wolves, the North Pole is a challenging place to do research – especially during the arctic winters when temperatures reach 70 degrees below zero and the sun doesn’t show its face for months at a time. But with a new development in technology plus a little help from a wolf named Brutus, [...]
Earlier this year we wrote about the Best Job In The World Contest where the lucky winner would become caretaker of a tropical island for the period of six months and get paid $103,000 (AUS) to do it. Yeah, it sounds like the perfect job, but it was also one of the better marketing stunts [...]
