Africa Cup of Nations started today

Cameroon soccer rocks the Earth  (yeah it does!)
I somehow missed this story at the AGU last week. Garrett Euler, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, presented work on imaging the Earth’s interior through a chain of seismometers in the African nation of Cameroon. But in early 2006, he found a series of [...]

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buy (less) crap!

This article over at New Internationalist got me all up in arms about this issue. 
(RED)TM herring
‘Capitalism failing to help the world’s poorest people AGAIN then, Bono?’
Red faces all round, report Corporate Watch, at the revelation that Bono’s celebrity-backed ‘Product Red’ campaign spent $100 million on promotion and only brought in $18 million for charity last year. Red [...]

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I had Christmas down in Africa…

Well, I wish.  Not this year. 
This is worth watching – at first it looks like just boring old 12 days of Christmas but it just keeps getting better.

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