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>This is a wonderful description of how to crochet 3D shapes! I have been looking for instructions on how to do some of these for a very long time. An excerpt is below. Crochet is usually relegated to the domain…

>This is a blog action day that I heard about on COLOURlovers. I think it is a wonderful way to get people to focus on the issue of poverty. An excerpt from the article is below. Our good friends over…

>It is amazing how adaptable life is! An excerpt from the article is below. In the warm, bubbling pools of Mono Lake in California, scientists have isolated a bacterium that fuels itself on arsenic. read more | digg story

>It is amazing what kinds of phenomena are out there in nature! These are images of Brocken Bows and Glories. An excerpt is below: Imagine hiking on a sunny mountain and witnessing an unforgettable phenomenon worthy of a Hollywood special…

>I was looking for a map of Kathmandu, Nepal, as I will be there for the month of September and I found this map on Lonely Planet. It has icons showing various places there, which I found very useful. I…

>I will be going to Nepal this September to visit with a group of weavers of the Limbu tribe to learn about Dhaka weaving. The women belong to a fair trade group in Nepal and they want to broaden their…

>On August 1, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The eclipse swept across Earth in a narrow path that begins in Canada’s northern province of Nunavut and…

>This is just amazing! An excerpt is below. Neil Harbisson suffers from achromatopsia – or complete congenital color blindness, and until meeting Adam Montandon, a cybernetics expert who was giving a speech at the art school which he was attending…

> Severn Suzuki is so eloquent! It is amazing that she was only 12 when she made this speech. I did a search on her in Google under Severn Cullis-Suzuki and found that she is still working on environmental problems.…