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Kickass Kid of the Day: Yes, this shot is real — photographer James Morgan submitted it to this year’sNational Geographic Traveler Photo Contest:
Enal, a young sea nomad, rides on the tail of a tawny nurse shark, in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Marine nomadism has almost completely disappeared in South East Asia as a result of severe marine degradation. I believe children such as Enal have stories that could prove pivotal in contemporary marine conservation.
Just… wow. Our money’s on Morgan for the win.
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Kickass Kid of the Day: Yes, this shot is real — photographer James Morgan submitted it to this year’sNational Geographic Traveler Photo Contest:
Enal, a young sea nomad, rides on the tail of a tawny nurse shark, in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Marine nomadism has almost completely disappeared in South East Asia as a result of severe marine degradation. I believe children such as Enal have stories that could prove pivotal in contemporary marine conservation.
Just… wow. Our money’s on Morgan for the win.
‘Pombal Castle’s Hill’ (Pombal, Portugal) by Comoco, Luís Miguel Correia, Nelson Mota, and Susana Constantino
Ice Canopy, Japan
Photo: Brian SkerryA diver explores an ice canopy off Hokkaido, Japan. The frozen seas here are a harsh realm to explore, but they’re anything but bleak, sustaining a variety of life above and below.
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I, For One, Etc. of the Day: Scientists in Australia say they’ve discovered the world’s first hybrid shark — a cross being the genetically distinct common black-tip and Australian black-tip — swimming along the coastline between New South Wales and Queensland.
“Telling the hybrids is extremely difficult, which is why it has never been done before,” Dr. Colin Simfendorfer of James Cook University told ABC Radio. “It came very much out of leftfield. We didn’t think it was a possibility, but lo and behold there it was.”
57 hybrids were found in five separate locations.
Unlike other hybrids in the animal world, these new sharks appear to be mating with other members of their species. Scientists speculate that the cause of interbreeding could be environmental change: The two black-tip species that make up the hybrid favor different water temperatures.
As to whether there is any chance of the hybrids turning into a “Jaws-style mega-shark,” the scientists say there is no risk of that at this time.
No word on lasers, though.
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I, For One, Etc. of the Day: Scientists in Australia say they’ve discovered the world’s first hybrid shark — a cross being the genetically distinct common black-tip and Australian black-tip — swimming along the coastline between New South Wales and Queensland.
“Telling the hybrids is extremely difficult, which is why it has never been done before,” Dr. Colin Simfendorfer of James Cook University told ABC Radio. “It came very much out of leftfield. We didn’t think it was a possibility, but lo and behold there it was.”
57 hybrids were found in five separate locations.
Unlike other hybrids in the animal world, these new sharks appear to be mating with other members of their species. Scientists speculate that the cause of interbreeding could be environmental change: The two black-tip species that make up the hybrid favor different water temperatures.
As to whether there is any chance of the hybrids turning into a “Jaws-style mega-shark,” the scientists say there is no risk of that at this time.
No word on lasers, though.
[telegraph.]
(Source: nickdrake)
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Letter Of Note of the Day: On the day the WWII Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany’s armed forces — better known today as V-E Day — OSS intelligence operative Lt. Richard Helms penned the above letter to his 3-year-old son Dennis, using stationary he picked up from the personal stores of former dictator Adolf Hitler.
Transcript:
Dear Dennis, The man who might have written on this card once controlled Europe - three short years ago when you were born. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins. He had a thirst for power, a low opinion of man as an individual, and a fear of intellectual honesty. He was a force for evil in the world. His passing, his defeat - a boon to mankind. But thousands died that it might be so. The price for ridding society of bad is always high. Love, Daddy.
Richard Helms went on to become the first and only director of the CIA to date to have been convicted of lying to Congress. His son Dennis is now a 69-year-old intellectual-property lawyer in New Jersey.
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Letter Of Note of the Day: On the day the WWII Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany’s armed forces — better known today as V-E Day — OSS intelligence operative Lt. Richard Helms penned the above letter to his 3-year-old son Dennis, using stationary he picked up from the personal stores of former dictator Adolf Hitler.
Transcript:
Dear Dennis,
The man who might have written on this card once controlled Europe - three short years ago when you were born. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins. He had a thirst for power, a low opinion of man as an individual, and a fear of intellectual honesty. He was a force for evil in the world. His passing, his defeat - a boon to mankind. But thousands died that it might be so. The price for ridding society of bad is always high.
Love, Daddy.Richard Helms went on to become the first and only director of the CIA to date to have been convicted of lying to Congress. His son Dennis is now a 69-year-old intellectual-property lawyer in New Jersey.
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