They celebrate Halloween in Pakistan? Apparently so, as this Getty picture shows. Fotografía de Getty ImagesAnd Halloween pics from Hong Kong and the Philippines and, of course, Germany, which pretty much invented it. See Fotos de Halloween alrededor del mundo for all of them.
There's a conflict brewing in the global warming issue - The 193-nation Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has called for "no climate-related geoengineering activities that may affect biodiversity ... until there is an adequate scientific basis on which to justify such activities."Well, what is 'adequate' scientific basis? It is the nature of climate that nothing can be considered accurate in the sense of physics. ETC, the Canadian group that pushed for the language behind the scenes, says it is a "a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments."
Richard Garriott, aka "Lord British", creator of the "Ultima" game series, used to do something fun for Halloween - a real life haunted house fantasy adventure. Tickets were given for free, first come, first served, and some lined up well in advance, creating a makeshift hobo camp outside his property. It took 400 people to create it each time it was held and 200 people to staff it. He spent $100,000 on the effects. Here, the Medusa on the second floor:Photo: Richard Garriott
The Giant Ocean Tank folks at the New England Aquarium aren't letting Halloween go by without getting some SCUBA attention. There's a jack-o-lantern underwater:and A Wicked Witch of the Deep
Home schoolers will tell you they knew this (and results bear them out) found that the effect on a child's educational attainment was, in order;1) parents' effort is more important than the school effort2) school effort is my important than the child's effortYes, they say parental involvement is more important than even how hard the child is inclined to work.
Artist and astrophotographer Alan Friedman talked to Wired blogger Lisa Grossman about he got an incredible photo of the Sun in his downtown Buffalo, NY backyard - and you can too.He hooked his telescope to a hydrogen-alpha filterwhich selects a tiny slice of the visible light spectrum. Hydrogen, the chief component of the sun, radiates strongly in this deep-red light, letting both the sun’s outer layers and the feathery filaments that extend away from the disk show up in sharp detail (see photos below).
It's bad enough that San Francisco football fans are ridiculed, what with drinking white wine spritzers in the stands and all that. Now baseball fans are becoming famous for being stoners.Californians may well pass a marijuana legalization law, putting them squarely in defiance of the big government in Washington most Californians claim is a good thing - but it hasn't happened yet, so Dallas sports anchor Newy Scruggs became a YouTube hit when he noted people were smoking weed outside AT&T Park before Game 1 of the World Series and "the police aren't doing anything."
It's impossible that some in science protest anti-science thinking in defiance of evidence yet continue to regard "Silent Spring" as an accurate waypoint regarding science policy. A culture war on DDT led to banning it and replacement by synthetic substitutes far worse than DDT for people and wildlife and, due to high cost, the deaths of many more children in Africa.Now, instead of the obvious solution for malaria used for decades without harm, a group of experts say we should give up on beating it.
Putting your kids in daycare with other germ-infested kids may have kept them from getting diseases like Leukemia - what that means is hyper-attentive mothers insisting you go through a space-age quarantine process before viewing their little cherub may be doing more young'uns harm than good.And using your cell phone may be preventing Alzheimers. 4 more subtle habits keeping you alive at Cracked.
Halloween through the years in one easy graphic. Click image to see it in a more readable larger size.
