Dead at 44
Thomas Doerflein became famous because of his devotion to Knut, the world's most famous polar bear. After Knut was born in captivity at the Zoologischer Garten in Berlin and rejected by his mother, the zookeeper nurtured him round the clock, even sleeping near him in a sleeping bag and feeding him several times each night. But Thomas died last september of a heart attack. He was 44. Read on for the rest of the story......
Gerhard Mangott analyses [GER] the Russo-Ukrainian gas crisis from a German perspective, and Der Spiegelfechter provides an extended account [GER] of developments.
Just last week, HubSpot, a Boston-based Internet marketing firm, released a report which stated that micro-blogging platform Twitter gains 5,000 to 10,000 new users every day. Given the recent use of Twitter in discussing major events such as the recent attacks in Mumbai and Gaza, it is unsurprising to see such growth.
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Mistletoe Growth as an Indicator of Toxic Metal Contamination
Just in time for the Christmas season, the Julius-Kühn Institute, aka the German Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants, brings us these interesting tidings: there's more going on under the mistletoe than just kissing. Scientists at JKI suggest that the amount of toxic metal contamination in soils can be known by looking at how much mistletoe is growing on the trees above. ...
Filling the coal-fired stove in Sugarloaf, PA; Laura Pedrick for the NYT
The New York Times covers the return of coal as a heating source in American houses.
Problematic in some ways and difficult to handle, coal is nonetheless a cheap, plentiful, mined-in-America source of heat. And with the cost of heating oil and natural gas increasingly prone to spikes, some homeowners in the Northeast, pockets of the Midwest and even Alaska are deciding coal is worth the trouble.
Photo credit to René Ehrhardt
We all would like to save the polar bear, but this method would seem, well, perhaps a little suicidal. This past Monday at the Berlin Zoo in Germany, police escorted a 37-year-old male off the zoo's property after he was seen leaping over the polar bear exhibit fence and landing into the bears outdoor swimming enclosure....
A few months ago, Serbian blogger Krugolina Borup published (SRP) a series of posts titled “Why should Serbs die out of “white plague?” on B92 blog. They were about her own very bad experience of giving birth, about unfriendly behavior and inhuman treatment of medical staff, about corruption in maternity hospital. Hundreds of readers from Serbia and the diaspora commented on her posts and many of them shared their own experiences.
“According to a poll conducted by the European Union recently, in 2005, 65% of Germans consider Israel to be the greatest threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea,” Svetov writes on Jewcy. He adds: “Germany is the by far biggest European exporter to Achmadinejad's Iran. It is the largest European exporter of technology and machines to the Iranian mullahs.”
(Google Map image of unsold cars lined up at an airfield in Oxfordshire, UK)
Toyota just announced that while three other Japanese car makers will not participate in the next Detroit Auto Show, they plan to attend, and they have two new models to display. Not surprisingly, both models are hybrids.
Three days ago, on Nov 20th, Zoula sent out a twitter message reporting that he could not get through the Customs from Shenzhen to Hong Kong:
I can't get in Hongkong, not allow me leave from China, I don't konw why. And I call somebody for ask help. May be OK latter.fuck blacklist.
Within a few minutes, his message got re-tweetted around and he further explained his situation:
I have the HK travel card for chinese citizens and passport, the police check all of my ID card for 30 minits then say no.
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Forget politics, Obama or the economic crisis. The new buzz in the Syrian blogosphere is about love.
Mariyah, a Syrian blogger from Damascus, has been playing with the hearts of her readers with the most delicate series of posts about the story of Ghassan and Alexandra.
It all starts on one cold evening in the winter of 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany:
Just don't wax your floors too well before buying into Jonas & Jonas furniture that leans against the wall and has just two legs. They say that "the scratch and shock-resistant body of this furniture is made of high pressure laminate and allows for any kind of strain" but I would be nervous about someone accidentally kicking a leg and having it collapse.
But I do like the minimalist look and it certainly doesn't take up much space. ...
The ninth wind farm in South Australia just opened on the Barunga Ranges near Snowtown. Its 47 turbines, installed by Trust Power of New Zealand, (who already operate that countries largest wind farm at Tararua), are said to have a capacity to deliver over 98MW. The company reckon this renewable energy should provide sufficient power for 70,000 Australian households.
Barack Obama speaking in Germany back in July, photo: matt4077.
At numerous times during his campaign, Barack Obama indicated that he would take a more collaborative, reengaged approach in dealing with other nations on major issues. And though he’ll still be president-elect Obama for close to three months, that hasn’t stopped politicians in other nations from reaching out to him, offering suggestions.
Canada Would Consider Climate Pact With US
Berlin based architect Eike Roswag's Haus Ihlow is a renovation and
addition to a historic stone barn using rammed earth built in the
country side near Berlin. It is the first load bearing housing project
in Germany since the 1950s.
werk_A Roswag & Jankowski Architekten (in German)
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