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Beyond Darwin The Galapagos

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Beyond Darwin The Galapagos are dots of land on a vast Pacific From the 1600s on they were a lonely stopping place for pirate vessels and ships drifting off course Now, instead of a place you get to by accident or bad luck the Galapagos are a magnet for travelers and especially scientists attracted by the chance for dramatic discoveries It’s silly to think age of discovery is over Never by over going going going with all kind of new thing I can’t wait to be old and gray and come back here and have some new person tell me how wrong I was Be no problem, be fun In 1835 these humble unknown islands were visited by a humble unknown scientist, (more…)

Laura Okmin

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Laura Okmin, spent only three weeks ashore in the Galapago visiting four of the 16 islands He took notes and filled his bag with specimens Then he left He may have had inklings of evolution but he didn’t see the light Understanding what he’s seen… and working out a theory explaining it… took a quarter of a century It’s one of the great sagas in the history of science Darwin’s theory of e volution shook not only the scientific but also the religious and social foundations of the western-world The reverberations of Darwin’s theory are still felt today felt with a passion It’s the passion of Fundamentalist religion raging against Darwin… insisting on a Biblical version of creation It’s also the passion of scientist who believe that Darwin opened new worlds of knowledge… who build on his insights in an on-going process of science… who regard such fundamental evolutionary principles as natural selection as an unshakable premise of their work You know, the irony of all this is that here we are on a very very modern ship - in fact with the Discovery program we’ve had e-mail and one of the first e-mails we got we someone asking the question, “Does you experience in Galapagos change your view about that controversial theory of natural selection?” My response was “Madam, it’s not controversial and it’s not a theory it’s a fact.” Laura Okmin.

Timing is everything

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Timing is everything. Just a year later, a major strike on the farm would forever link the name De Beers with diamonds and leave the De Beers brothers far behind, a footnote to history. Over the years, this fertile ground has produced some of the world’s most famous diamonds. One of the most extraordinary finds was a golden stone that has resided in New York City for the last century, the Tiffany Diamond. It was found in, in the Kimberley mines in ghostland observatory.
There had never been such a large canary diamond found before. It was enormous. It weighed carats. Charles Tiffany purchased the stone in Paris for the equivalent of , dollars in today’s currency. He brought the trophy home to New York City, where it became the symbol for his flagship store. Audrey Hepburn is one of the lucky few who has actually worn the gem.

Washington socialite

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Washington socialite Evelyn Walsh McLean was offered the Hope by the jeweler Cartier in . Some say Cartier actually invented the legend of the curse to entice the daredevil aristocrat to buy it. Whatever the story’s origins it worked. But just to be on the safe side Mrs. McLean had her new bauble blessed by a priest. She was a, a little bit of an eccentric lady. She would entertain lavishly in America. And she used to take the Hope Diamond off her necklace and at parties, would throw it up in the air and her dog would retrieve them, which was so, quite wild. But the party didn’t last forever.
The son of the wealthy heiress was killed in an automobile accident, her husband was committed to a mental hospital, rocking around the christmas tree, amelia, för fet för min ubåt, tommy nilsson, fransk filmkompositör and her daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills. She had a lot of personal tragedies although she didn’t ascribe them to the Hope. She said the Hope was lucky for her extraordinary thing to say in view of these tragedies. After Mrs. McLean died of pneumonia at the age of , her estate decided to sell the ill-fated diamond. But who would dare risk the curse?

Louis XIV Diamonds

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Louis XIV had so many diamonds in his tunics I think he would have sunk like a lead balloon probably, if he put in the sea. While King Louis didn’t drown he did eventually contract gangrene and suffered a long and painful death. Marie Antoinette and Louis X VI inherited the beautiful blue diamond next, but didn’t have much time to enjoy it. They both lost their heads at the guillotine during the French Revolution. I think that’s one of the tragic fates one could meet. Whether the diamond was the cause of it I’ll leave it to the imagination.

The Ancient Egyptian Capital

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

ln the holiest shrine of the ancient Egyptian capital, Solon was shown records of unsurpassed antiquity the secrets of a long-lost age when a civilization of incomparable power and prestige had dominated the world nine thousand years before. The empire of Atlantis. The description the Egyptian priest gave to Solon of this mighty vanished civilization is the starting point for every search ever undertaken to find Atlantis.
A description which Plato says: ” has the great advantage of being a fact and not a fiction.” Atlantis was said to lie beyond the Pillars of Hercules outside the Mediterranean Sea in an ocean we now call the Atlantic. Plato was very, very specific about where Atlantis was and what size it was and he described it as being larger than the continents of Africa and Asia put together and he located it very carefully outside the Pillars of Hercules. (more…)

Can He Score

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Can he score or canhescore website canhescore.com.
In statistics, the score or score function is the partial derivative, with respect to some parameter θ, of the logarithm then the score V can be found through the chain rule:
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Shaun Donovan

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Shaun is brilliant, really thoughtful and creative, and knowledgeable about a broad range of housing policies in ways that unfortunately is very unusual,” said Barbara Sard, the director of housing policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research and advocacy group.
Shaun Donovan

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. –William Carlos Williams

CanHeScore.com

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Can he score or canhescore website canhescore.com.
In statistics, the score or score function is the partial derivative, with respect to some parameter θ, of the logarithm (commonly the natural logarithm) of the likelihood function. If the observation is X and its likelihood is L(θ;X), then the score V can be found through the chain rule:
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Online X-Men Origins - Wolverine Watch

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Online Watch X-Men Origins - Wolverine , Download Origins Rapidshare Wolverine Torrent Full Download.X-Men’s movie franchise: X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Set before the events of the previous films.

However the movie that it was attached to failed to compare to it’s trailer counterpart.


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