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POPSAnthropology Museum database to go online
article continues: Nearly 50 artifacts connected to the Cherokee culture including baskets, ceremonial pipes, jewelry, ceramics and a range of other objects can be found in the database. Thousands of American Indian projectile points, most of them found in North Carolina, have also been cataloged. The oldest artifact in the collection dates to 10,000 B.C. Archaeology and anthropology enthusiasts can search by country to find objects from a particular geographic area or by culture, such as the Hopi, to find all objects in the collection associated with that culture. People can also search for a type of artifact. For example, by entering “basket” as a search term, someone could find records for more than 150 baskets in the collection. Anyone can use the database, but the database will be particularly valuable for North Carolina teachers, said Stephen Whittington, director of the museum. Teachers can use images and the descriptions from the database to plan lessons
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POPSThroat-Singing Media links don't seem to work from the clip. Go to source for some extraordinary sounds.
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POPSSolar Weather Light Show Find more ways to see and collect amazing real images of Earth's magnetic field protecting us from Sun Storms. Learn more about Earth and get fabulous images from NASA and their partners. I love the interviews of the Inuit elders and the older scientists who first began the science station in the Arctic. Very cool stories.
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POPSArctic Oil Bonanza Worries Alaska Native
Native groups and environmentalists most fear a serious oil spill in the Chukchi. The MMS itself estimated in the environmental impact statement authorizing the lease sale there was a 40 percent chance of a spill of at least 1,000 barrels or more over the life of any single oil development project in the Chukchi. “If oil spills under ice in the middle of January there is absolutely nothing they can do about it,” said Rick Steiner, an oil spill expert at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. “There’s a large stretch of time when they would be producing oil and have no way of cleaning up a spill.” A legal challenge to the validity of the MMS’s environmental impact statement is under way, and a similar suit temporarily halted Shell’s plans to drill in the Beaufort Sea last summer. Drilling opponents are pessimistic about their chances of putting a stop to the rush into the Arctic. “Maybe there can be something worked out, but at this time it really doesn’t look that way,” sa
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POPSFeeling short? Blame your ancestors. Seems like height of ancestors had a lot to do with how far they had to travel, Shorter races also tended to evolve with high populations, where there was increased competition for food.
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POPSToes bones reveal a footwear fetish They compared the way the toe bones grew between bare footed, and shod people. Shoes produce a different walking style, where the foot is pushed off the big toe of people wearing shoes, rather than the middle toes of bare footed people. They also tested modern examples by comparing the toe bones of habitually barefooted Native American Pueblo Indians, with the shoe wearing Inuit, and found differences that supported their conclusion.
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POPSEducation Even though this talks about the Cherokee people, this in fact speaks for all Aboriginal peoples, every where. In Canada the First Nation, Metis & Inuit peoples are not taught the same as in the outside world (white mans world) they are behind and kept that way by the governments who regulate education, they were & are never taught history because the Canadian Governments were and are scared to tell the truth about the Canadian history. This can possibly be said by all the governments around the world who suppress the Indigenous peoples of that country. Cougar
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POPSGore for a nobel why not gore with hilary as vice president. would be a lot of fun for the pundits, but just might win.
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POPSLatest global warming first: Climate refugees face mass exodus Last year we heard of Shishmaref , an Alaskan Inuit village that had to relocate, Puvirnituq, in Northern Quebec where igloos are no longer viable , but Bangladesh has 140 million people "Bangladesh is nature's laboratory on disaster management," said Ainun Nishat, representative of the World Conservation Union and a government adviser on climate change. As temperatures rise and more severe weather takes hold worldwide, "this is one of the countries that is going to face the music most," he said. Bangladesh is hardly the only low-lying nation facing tough times as the world warms. Scientists say it in many ways represents climate change's "perfect storm" of challenges because it is extremely poor, extremely populated and extremely susceptible.
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