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POPSTake a Bow, America It can be easy in such a moment of triumph to lose sight of the agony wrought by the unrelieved evil of racism and to forget how crucial a role anti-black racism played in shaping American life since the first slaves were dumped ashore 400 years ago. Blacks have been holding fast to the promise of America for all that time. Not without anger. Not without rage. But with a fidelity that in the darkest moments — those moments when the flow of blood seemed like it would never stop, when enslaved families were wrenched apart, when entire communities were put to the torch, when the breeze put the stiffened bodies of lynched victims in motion, when even small children were murdered and Dr. King was taken from us — even in those dire moments, African-Americans held fast to the promise of America with a fidelity that defied logic.
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POPSYou can learn a lot from floating junk To report interesting items of flotsam that have washed ashore, send an e-mail to Curtis Ebbesmeyer at curtisebbesmeyer@comcast.net or a letter to him at: Curtis Ebbesmeyer Beachcombers Alert 6306 21st Avenue, NE Seattle, WA 98115 Be sure to include a description of the item, the circumstances of its discovery (location, date, weather conditions, etc.), and pictures of the item if possible. Detailed information about the release of wooden tops off Japan in 2005 and 2006 can be found at http://www.gondo.com/g-files/koma/page_1.htm.
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POPSWeird sex: Giant squid But males get round their inferior size by being endowed with a particularly long penis, which means they can inject the female without having to get too close to her chomping beak. The male's sexual organ is actually a bit like a high-pressure fire hose and is normally nearly as long as his body - excluding legs and head. "But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body. And this does not seem to have been an isolated incident since two of the eight males that had stranded in the north-east Atlantic before had also accidentally inseminated themselves
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POPSRats wipe out Seabirds on Alaska Island They intend to try and get rid of the rats with rat poison, they seem optimistic, and say that if successful it will be third largest rat free island in the world. They have two problems. People have tried to get rid of rats before, with out much success. The other problem, is that with rat poison, while it may be ok if there are only rats on the island, it doesn't break down easily, and residue can remain in the food chain and environment, causing, bleeding in whatever ingests it.
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POPSThe Little Titanic At 17.41p.m. Hans Hedtoft informs "we are sinking slowly" and at 18.06 the trawler picks up the beginning of an SOS after which there was no longer connection to the Greenlandic ship. No wreckage could positively be identified as coming from Hans Hedtoft. And not until 9 months after the loss, the only piece of wreckage washed ashore on Iceland: a lifebuoy. The Hans Hedtoft sank 40 years ago.
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POPSHiding In Plain Sight Not only are containers of rubber ducks being lost in the high seas, but huge shipping containers of floating athletic shoes and other debris that pollute the oceans. The up side of this pollution dilemma is that scientists are able to study the movement of ocean currents based on the travels of this objects. If you find any odd piece of debris at the beach, contact an oceanographer.
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POPS 'Polars Bears On The Brink? Don't You Believe It' ANIMAL PLANET TV SPECIAL 12/08 - 01/08 FIVE PARTS Arctic Exposure with Nigel Marven New Life of Spring TV-G Nigel Marven starts his quest to follow wildlife over a nine month period in the Canadian Arctic while exploring their unique environs. In Wapusk National Park, Nigel witnesses the jaw-dropping majesty of the Northern Lights in -30 degree weather. Arctic Exposure with Nigel Marven The Thaw Begins TV-G Nigel Marven continues his Canadian Arctic journey into summer. The first polar bears of summer come ashore and Nigel encounters one swimming at sea. Near Cambridge Bay, he witnesses a breathtaking wolf attack on a musk ox herd. New Life of Spring The Thaw Begins High Summer Return of the Ice The Journey Ends
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POPSSea monster cast ashore I have a friend who says he saw this out in the pacific off the oregon coast where we live, when he was out halibut fishing, it was dead and floating but had eyes.
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POPSTsunami devastates western Solomons The magnitude-8 quake struck shortly after 7:39 a.m. six miles beneath the sea floor, about 215 miles northwest of the Solomons capital, Honiara, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Within five minutes, waves 10-16 feet tall roared ashore and went up to half a mile inland, inundating buildings and sending thousands fleeing for higher ground, witnesses said. The Pacific region went on high alert for several hours after the quake struck between the islands of Bougainville and New Georgia, with Sydney's famous Bondi among beaches closed more than 1,250 miles away in Australia.
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POPSFlotsam Science: You can learn a lot from floating junk Now, for the first time, scientists have determined that a lap around the Pacific Subarctic Gyre takes about 3 years. That information, in turn, led Ebbesmeyer and his colleagues to identify long-term variations in water temperature and salinity in the North Pacific that hadn't been noted previously. All this from studying flotsam.
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