A trip overseas, especially with today's fuel prices and other changes in the airline industry, is different now than it was even a few years ago. This is especially true in regards to the topic of this post: How to deal with the problem of...
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Posted on July 1, 2008 11:42 AM • 20 Comments •
Join Zuska and her commenters in a pile on regarding the Smithsonian Magazine's recent article on the archaeology of southern Africa. It's racist, it's sexist, and it's even anti-Neanderthal. (The article, not Zuska's post) Regarding the writing about the use of stone tool technology in...
Posted on June 26, 2008 8:52 PM • 5 Comments •
Well, now it's official. The leader of Zimbabwe is an out of control nut-job who will probably linger in office until very slow moving pressures from outside push him out, or until there is a bloody coup of some kind. This comes after his opposition...
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Posted on June 20, 2008 11:47 PM • 10 Comments •
Do you have any idea of what is going on in Zimbabwe? And has been for quite some time? I've not chosen to make any effort to note the African news that I semi-regularly follow, but I think it is time for that to change....
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Posted on June 19, 2008 10:40 AM • 5 Comments •
In the early days of South Africa ... well, not the really early days, but some time in the 19th century or early 20th century, a fairly large number of Chines people were imported as workers/slaves. One of the reasons to do this was to...
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Posted on June 18, 2008 5:12 PM • 11 Comments •
By African standards, Kenya's Amboseli itself is small, but it is part of two or more large scale systems that extend far beyond its boundaries. One is the Serengeti Ecosystem, which extends far to the south in Tanzania. The other is the Nilotic (mainly Maasai)...
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Posted on June 15, 2008 10:05 AM • 5 Comments •
It is obvious in the United States that we need to replace the executive with a Democrat and add a few senators in the mix, in order to undo 8 years of Republican policy and replace it with four to 8 years of Democratic policy....
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Posted on May 7, 2008 9:00 PM • 39 Comments •
A survey of the Western Area Peninsula Forest (WAPF) in Sierra Leone has discovered two new breeding colonies of the Vulnerable White-necked Picathartes Picathartes gymnocephalus, in addition to the 16 sites already known. The survey was part of a one-year project carried out by volunteers...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 7:23 PM • 4 Comments •
That elephants have an aquatic ancestry has been suspected for some time now. Moreover, the idea of elephant aquatic origins and elephant origins in general is part of a growing realization that many of the world's aquatic mammals originated in a couple of regions of...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 2:35 PM • 4 Comments •
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