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razzleccentricWelsh Pride! Represent!!
Scientific History!!!
A bunch of Brits - including the director of the Darwin Centre for Biology and Medicine in Wales, the chair of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, and representatives from the Tall Ships Trust in Wales are going to build a replica of HMS Beagle and, on the Darwin Bicentennial in 2009, they will sail around the world following the exact path Darwin & Co. made on the original voyage.
The insanely cool part about this is that they plan to have scientists, journalists and bloggers of all stripes on board to do research, take pictures, make videos, and write all about it as it happens!!! The goal is to benefit science education in UK schools - but ye gods, classrooms around the world will be able to access all this goodness. What an awesome project!
Please visit The Beagle Project website and donate FOR SCIENCE!!!
Sheepish shennanigans
In a noble effort to create an environmentally friendly road grit, one Welsh town developed an alternative to corrosive rock salt - a kind of grit mixture coated with molasses to make it stick to the road and not bounce off.
Unfortunately, the sheep roaming the common areas love molasses. And now the roads are blocked with happy sheep licking up the sweet, sweet grit.
Wooly speed bumps should also decrease slipperiness, I guess.
Scientific History!!!
A bunch of Brits - including the director of the Darwin Centre for Biology and Medicine in Wales, the chair of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, and representatives from the Tall Ships Trust in Wales are going to build a replica of HMS Beagle and, on the Darwin Bicentennial in 2009, they will sail around the world following the exact path Darwin & Co. made on the original voyage.
The insanely cool part about this is that they plan to have scientists, journalists and bloggers of all stripes on board to do research, take pictures, make videos, and write all about it as it happens!!! The goal is to benefit science education in UK schools - but ye gods, classrooms around the world will be able to access all this goodness. What an awesome project!
Please visit The Beagle Project website and donate FOR SCIENCE!!!
Sheepish shennanigans
In a noble effort to create an environmentally friendly road grit, one Welsh town developed an alternative to corrosive rock salt - a kind of grit mixture coated with molasses to make it stick to the road and not bounce off.
Unfortunately, the sheep roaming the common areas love molasses. And now the roads are blocked with happy sheep licking up the sweet, sweet grit.
Wooly speed bumps should also decrease slipperiness, I guess.
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Date: 2007-02-02 03:26 pm (UTC)Here's to the Welsh
Date: 2007-02-02 03:44 pm (UTC)Re: Here's to the Welsh
Date: 2007-02-02 06:51 pm (UTC)Alfred Russel Wallace was Welsh! Gwyddoniaeth!
Re: Here's to the Welsh
Date: 2007-02-02 06:54 pm (UTC)Will Tom Jones sing a song to send them off? ;D
Date: 2007-02-02 07:37 pm (UTC)That, is fucking cool.
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Date: 2007-02-03 04:13 am (UTC)