Gleanings of the Week Ending August 11, 2012
/The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles I read this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article:
NASA images reveal massive forest die-off from tiny beetle - Before and after satellite pictures of Colorado
Movement Along Fault Line Threatening Cliff Palace At Mesa Verde National Park
Video Sampler Introduces You To The More Than 20 National Parks In Virginia
Zentangles - Get more out of doodling!
Black Drink: Evidence of Ritual Use of Caffeinated Brew at Cahokia - made from a holly tree that grew hundreds of miles away
10 Green Ways to Improve Our Cities
Sky-High Design: How To Make A Bird-Friendly Building - tweaks to make modern architecture better for birds
How Olympic athletes' bodies have changed over the last century - an infographic from NPR
The Bison: A National Symbol for All Americans - From National Geographic…the first post in a series about the American Bison
Chart: the world's endangered mammals - From the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The primates are faring the worst with 49% of the species being ‘threatened’ - which means that they are threatened with extinction. Overall - 21% of mammal species are in ‘threatened’ status.
Pictures: Surprising Effects of the U.S. Drought - From National Geographic