Archives for Science
Cloned-to-Order Cat Sale Generates Ethics Debate
The first cloned-to-order pet sold in the United States is named Little Nicky, a 9-week-old kitten delivered to a Texas woman saddened by the loss of a cat she had…
Nobel laureate rings energy alarm bell
"It may be a greater challenge for us than the Cold make it possible for 10 billion people to live the lifestyle you are used to in a way that…
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…
Collecting rocks
Rocks Tell the Story of the Earth The Earth is made of rock, from the tallest mountains to the floor of the deepest ocean. Thousands of different types of rocks…
Abu Dhabi to North Yemen Overland — April 1982
by Ian and June Harner The choice was eventually made, and two weeks by road to North Yemen triumphed over a three week package tour to Japan. Next followed the…
Al Hair Archaeological Site
Bulletin No. 36 contains a short article on flint finds at Al Hair, north of Hili and just off the Al Ain-Dubai highway. I visited the site with Bish Brown…
Bedouin Youth, Past and Present
(The following is the gist of a talk presented to the ENHG at the end of 1986. -- Ed.) Sheikha Al Maskery's thesis is that UAE Bedouin youth have been…
Development Anomalies in the Bedouin Oases of Al-Liwa
(Dr. Heard-Bey, who studied history at Berlin and Heidelberg, has lived in Abu Dhabi for eleven years. The present article is based on observations made during visits to the Liwa…
The Empty Quarter
On 31st March 1977 at a public meeting held in the Community Hall, (which the ENHG largely organized) Mr. Wilfred Thesiger introduced a showing of the BP film “The Empty…
Extract from Arabia Felix
The Road to Ubar "Look, Sahib," they cried, "There is the road to Ubar!" "Ubar?" I wondered. "It was a great city, our fathers have told us, that existed of…
History of the Buraimi Oasis
by Nick Saines Geologist, Regional Development Committee, Buraimi. Introduction For hundreds, if not thousands, of years the Al Ain – Buraimi area was known as the ‘Buraimi Oasis’. The Buraimi…
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…