Baby Elephant

Here's an article I read on The Daily Mail about the birth of a new elephant.

The herd of elephants encircle the pregnant female to shield her from hyenas.  The pictures are far more important than the article.  You can see the baby elephant once he's born stand up and the happy elephants trumpeting the arrival.  Beautiful!

Link to article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108183/Herd-elephants-huddles-round-female-gives-birth.html

Low Clouds

NASA has been studying cloud height for the past ten years.  The data suggests that less clouds are forming at higher altitudes and more are forming at lower altitudes.  Interestingly, the overall cloudtop height is lower as well.  Scientists think that this will result in a cooling of the Earth.

The Earth is an organism just like people, animals, bacteria, and plants.  It's so cool.

Link to article: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/earths-clouds-are-sinking-and-could-help-cool-planet

Oddly Accurate. Some of the time.

A Snowy Pic

Here's a beautiful Photo of the Day from National Geographic.

See more Photos of the Day here: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/

Look at this plant!

Who knows what this is?

Nope, not cherries or grapes. 

It's coffee.  I suppose since I don't drink coffee (blasphemous, I know!), I've never really investigated what a coffee plant is or how it's processed to be the beans that live in our freezer. 

Here's more about coffee: http://www.coffeeresearch.org/agriculture/coffeeplant.htm

Captain Morgan

I first heard about this story elsewhere but then it popped up again on Jeopardy! last night.

The pirate ship of Henry Morgan was discovered over the summer.  A team of archeologists have since been working to recover all sorts of relics.

Interestingly, when the team found itself without funding and unable to continue, a well known sponsor stepped in to provide some money: Captain Morgan USA (obviously!).

Here's the pirate himself:

Read more about the ship and what they're finding here: http://news.discovery.com/history/captain-morgans-pirate-ship-found-110806.html