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POPSGoogle Safari There have been many creatures found on Google Earth, but the most impressive ones are mostly there as part of the National Geographic African Megaflyover Project , which brought us thousands of super-high-resolution aerial photographs of Africa.
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POPSColourful beginning for humanity "Colour symbolism is an abstraction and we cannot work this abstraction without language; so this is a proxy for trying to find in the archaeological record real echoes for the emergence of language," Dr Barham told the British Association's Science Festival.
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POPSNo Shortcuts to First-World Wealth New cluster-analysis of the world's product export space reveals the differences in connectivity and diversity between nations' production capacities as well as the very sizable developmental gaps in this network that keep poorer countries on the industrial fringes. The rich countries of the industrialized world tend to have broad portfolios of industries, and accordingly occupy large areas of the product space, usually including much of the network's core. Fast-growing developing countries such as China, Thailand, and Hungary are strong in some of those central, well-connected regions. The poorest countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, tend to specialize in a few of the peripheral products—such as oil for Nigeria and copper for Zambia. EDIT :My first title was too generic ("Mapping the Wealth of Nations.")
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 24th 11 Montevideo, Uruguay: Nacional fans celebrate after their team scored during a Copa Libertadores football match against Peru's Cienciano 8 Alkmaar, Netherlands: A picture taken inside the new HVC group bio-energy waste storage opened earlier by Queen Beatrix 7 Amsterdam, Netherlands: Employees carry the winning photo of World Press Photo 2008 to its place in the Oude Kerk church 6 Kabul, Afghanistan: A woman begs for alms as a man rides past outside the Darul Aman's palace, which was destroyed during the 1992 civil war 5 Havana, Cuba: Cuban models present creations of the Italian desginer Rocco Barrocco 4 Baramulla, India: An Indian soldier looks on during a gun battle 3 Matongo, Zambia: Villagers examine mosquito nets given to them by members of the Roll Back Malaria Expedition 2 London, UK: Patriotic pensioner Jim Diper braves the rain to don his plastic England bowler hat and join the festivities celebrating Saint Georges's Day in Trafalgar Squa
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POPSCorruption costs Africa $148 billion a year A bit more: "Corruption is a direct impediment to Africa's development. Corruption hurts the many and benefits the few," South Africa's Public Service Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi told delegates at the corruption conference. "It takes away resources from priority areas such as health, social development and education. It also hampers the continent's efforts to instill sound political, socio-economic and corporate governance." A similar acknowledgement of the dangers of corruption can even be heard from Sudan, which ranks fifth from bottom of the Transparency International list, ahead of only Haiti, Burma, Iraq and Guinea."
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POPSCall for G8 to help stem corruption in Africa: Zambia President Mwanawasa's administration is promoting private sector development for third world countries, but needs help to stop corrupt leaders from stealing the aid and other monies needed for development. This is something that has frustrated me for a long time. So much money has been given to aid African countries, with the goal of delivering food, water, healthcare and education to the people and hopefully help them become self-sufficient, yet time and again corrupt "leaders" steal the money. When I read this news article today I was relieved to learn that ethical leaders in Africa are also frustrated by the corruption, and that they are trying to find ways to thwart it. Hopefully the G8 have the ethics needed to heed the plea and do the right thing.
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POPS"A Camera, 2 Kids, & A Camel" The Work of Annie Griffiths Belt "As a photographer I have learned that women really do hold up half the sky; that language isn't always necessary, but touch usually is; that all people are not alike, but they do mostly have the same hopes and fears; that judging others does great harm but listening to them enriches; that it is impossible to hate a group of people once you get to know one of them as an individual." (Annie Griffiths Belt) "A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel" is a photo memoir of her life, that discloses the secrets of a peripatetic life...revealing in often hilarious detail how she managed to juggle two children, bulky cases of camera equipment and everything needed for a nurturing family life as she traveled to far-flung destinations around the world. An award-winning photojournalist and mother of two has lived a life we only dream about...to see and share the world with your family.
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POPSGoogle Safari Go to source to see close ups, or clicking the underlined words should work as well. Beautiful wildlife!
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POPSActing Globally, Living Locally: Nurse Visits Over 60 Countries Simin Marefat, an unstoppable nurse: For almost 10 years, wherever she went, she saw enormous need and a huge deficit of resources around the globe from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. She organized a benefit in 2006 that raised $14,000: the proceeds helped Orphans of Rwanda to build a health clinic at Gisimba Memorial Center. She visited the clinic in June 2007 to see that the children all have health cards with their pictures and vaccinations and medications. They have a nurse who provides for them. She then organized a second benefit which raised $18,000: the proceeds will cover tuition for 34 Orphans of Rwanda to go to school. Fleeing Iran, her family arrived in the United States in 1986 to Hays, Kansas. It was that odyssey, beginning with escape, displacement, discrimination and eventual acceptance, Marefat says, that taught her anything was possible.
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POPSHow Much Can One Blog Do? Evolutionary biologist T. Ryan Gregory hopes to get attention for good work his father and stepmother are doing in Livingstone, Zambia. --Matt Herper
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