Gleanings of the Week Ending September 8, 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:

Stalking Sharks - researchers monitor movement of sharks off California’s coast

In Bike-Friendly Copenhagen, Highways For Cyclists  - one third of the people of Copenhagen ride their bikes to work or school…and they are extending the existing infrastructure out to the suburbs.

Birds hold 'funerals' for dead - experiments with western scrub jays

Face of America: Spirit of South Florida Montage - high energy montage of clips from Wolf Trap's upcoming Face of America: Spirit of South Florida, set to appear at Wolf Trap National Park (article at National Parks Traveler here)

Raw Veggie ‘noodle’ dishes - a step beyond spaghetti squash. If you don’t want to invest in a spiral slicer, try putting your veggies horizontally in your regular food processor and using the grating blade; the opening in my processor is large enough to make 3-4 inch ‘noodles’ this way (see zucchini and sweet potato noodles at left)

Learn the Top Native Plants for Your Backyard - beautiful and usually require less maintenance!

Grand Canyon National Park - the guide from National Parks Traveler.

Wow! NASA Video Shows 'Mind-Bogglingly Gorgeous' Solar Eruption

Green Money-Saving Tips: Cheap Ways to Be Environmentally Friendly - 10 tips (scroll over the images in the slide show to see the accompanying text). The 8th one (make your own cleaning supplies) includes of link to recipes for cleaners!

Cheers, Voyager: 35 Years of Exploration - the most distant human-made object was launched 35 years ago on Sept. 5th

10 Years Ago – In August 2002

Many years ago I started collecting headlines/news blurbs as a way of honing my reading of news. Over the years, the headline collection has been warped by the sources of news I was reading…increasingly online. Reviewing the August 2002 headline gleanings - I forced myself to pick 10.    

1. Overfishing of shark prey in the Atlantic Ocean means sharks are coming closer to shore to find food
2. A quest for oil in the North Sea has turned up an ancient well-preserved impact crater
3. Global warming is causing squid to grow abnormally large and speeding up their breeding cycles,
4. Archaeologists have discovered an Egyptian birth-brick. It would have been one of pair used to support a woman's feet during childbirth.
5. Maryland to poison pond to kill Snakehead fish
6. A dense blanket of pollution, dubbed the "Asian Brown Cloud," is hovering over South Asia
7. Prague prepares for the worst as waters rise
8. 100th birthday celebrations of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
9. Nearly one million volunteers and soldiers in China's Hunan Province are racing against time to stop what could become the biggest flood in decades
10. An ancient skull found on a London riverbank with a large hole in it shows that brain surgery was performed at least 3,750 years earlier than thought. The skull dated by English Heritage to 1750 B.C. 

As usual - the list is heavily skewed toward science and technology.