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One Blonde’s View On Animals, Nature & The Environment

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Entries from September 2008

Rubber Ducky I’m Awfully Fond Of You.

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Sometimes in life you just have go primitive and when a high-tech sensory-probe failed to produce any information regarding the path that glacier water takes, Alberto Behar of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory did just that.
Behar has been researching the worlds most rapidly melting and moving glacier – Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier (Jakobshavn Isbræ) – and hopes [...]

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Tags: Science + Technology.

And While I’m on Campaigns…

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

It’s time to fire your Creative Director when …

Where did this ad come from? The 19 - freaken - 20’s?!?
When I saw this headline I was hoping for a different type of “appliance.”  *grin*

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Tags: Design + Lifestyle.

“You’re Naturally Beautiful” says The Body Shop.

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

As you know by now, I am a huge support of modern day artisans and supporting my local economy (click here and here for tips). As a result you will not catch me wandering through a mall on a Saturday afternoon and the times that I am actually in a mall, you will definitely not [...]

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Tags: Design + Lifestyle. · Latest News. · Nature.

Animals Can’t Wrap It Up.

September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Did you know that 3 major human STD’s have come from animals?
Discover Magazine reports that, according to Alonso Aguirre (Vice President for Conservation Medicine at Wildlife Trust):

Gonorrhea came from cattle
Syphilis came from cattle or sheep many centuries ago …possibly even sexually (ek!)
HIV came from the blood of chimpanzees

And as it turns out, STD’s are just [...]

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Tags: Nature. · Science + Technology.