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Masirah Island
Masirah is an island approximately 40 miles long by 10 miles wide at its maximum point. On plan it is shaped like an hourglass, being five miles wide at its…
Overland to Jordan
by Ian and June Hamer Following a successful overland journey to North Yemen in 1982, we decided to try the easier but no less interesting drive to Jordan and on…
Doing Something About the Climate
The Century in Review: Twain's remark about the weather is no longer a laughing matter Mark Twain supposedly wrote, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."…
Dinosaur Extinction
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs A Research Program at the Milwaukee Public Museum by Peter M. Sheehan Curator of Geology EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted without illustrations from LORE…
A Dolphin Adventure
There are very few places in the world where humans can swim with dolphins, so we should consider ourselves privileged to have the "Dolphin Adventure" saltwater pool so close to…
Just how smart are dolphins?
How smart are dolphins? Anuschka de Rohan reviews the evidence, including an underwater-tv encounter between a dolphin and David Attenborough. At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly…
Solitary dolphins – what can we learn?
Other people are already collecting records of cetacean sightings in general in Ireland: the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group maintains it own database and submits summaries to the Sea Watch…
Swimming with wild dolphins
We neither encourage you to go swimming with wild dolphins nor do we advise you against it. Each situation is different and is a matter of personal choice. However, here…
Boating with dolphins
Dolphins love to bow-ride boats, getting a free ‘surf’ from the pressure wave generated by the forward motion of the boat. In the ‘natural’ situation, they do the same trick…
Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust
In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of "The…
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of…
Globalization
Covering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term “globalization” has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In…
Tiny new species of human unearthed
The remains of a tiny and hitherto unknown species of human that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago have been discovered on an Indonesian island. The discovery has been…
Portrait
Portrait and figure painting were Katy Kianush's first love. This has provided her with an endless and challenging source of study. The faces and figures are created in a fresh…
Handicrafts as local art
An exhibit of Bolivian folk art evokes local cultures and environments In the same way that a Wall Street banker would never show up at work sporting beads and sandals,…
Portrait Painter of the Republic
A dazzling Gilbert Stuart retrospective includes paintings never before seen in public When the largest exhibition ever of works by Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) opens this month at the Metropolitan Museum…
Art That Goes Boom
Fireworks, exploding balloons, skywriting: Gai Guo-Qiang's sizzling works defy gravity and expectations On a gritty street in downtown New York City, a bright red door gives way to another world—the…
Art Deco: High Style
The glamorous look marked skylines from New York to Shanghai and streamlined everything from film and fashion to jewelry and automobiles Art Deco was the name given, long after the…
Poster Children
Montreal-based poster-design firm Seripop is coming soon to a wall near you. When Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau set up a silk-screening studio in their Montreal apartment, the last thing…
Mass Consumption
American designers tackle the issue of obesity. International design biennials ask a lot of their curators—bring us your best designers, but introduce us to new faces. Tell us what’s happening…