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Author Archive
Mosquito Blood used to identify thief!
02/01/2009 by Chris Prettejohn.
According to the BBC, in Finland a car thief has been found by analysing blood found in a mosquito in the car he was reported to have stolen!
I heard a story that if you squeeze the skin around a mosquito when it’s sucking your blood its proboscis gets stuck and it’s forced to keep sucking until it explodes. Can anyone verify this??
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A Year in Photographs
20/12/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
I discovered the big picture from the Boston Globe this year. A new favourite on my Google Reader.
This selection of images from 2008 is simply stunning.
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Earth 2100 - A Grim Future?
14/12/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
Earth in the Year 2100.
Could you make a video to explain what life will be like in 2100? It
looks like a pretty depressing future according to the briefing which
talks about the Arctic having melted, rising sea levels, coastal cities
abandoned, disease widespread and conflict.
I sometimes find teaching modern geography a little depressing and this game seems to highlight it. Hoefully as Boserup said
‘necessity is the mother of invention’ and the doom mongers will be
proved wrong. Thank you to Abi H in my year 13 Geography for finding
this link.
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Bizarre Living Fossils
07/12/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
This website has some very odd recently discovered animals which includes the incredibly ugly Purple Frog which lay undiscovered until 5 years ago. It lives underground and only comes out for two weeks during the wet season.
It’s incredible that even in the 21st Century we’re still discovering new species whilst at the same time making more species extinct faster than ever. Even the cheetah is now considered an endangered species….
We seem to spend billions on preserving human life and yet minimal amounts on the preservation of our fellow Planet Earth species.
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Some of the World’s Strangest Buildings
23/11/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
Here are some extremely strange and eccentric buildings. I love the Stone House in Portugal!
I went to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain last year and thought the building was incredible but also remember the huge spider and dog made from flowers outside too. Long live artistic, eccentric thinking!
A scary metal spider outside the Guggenheim
The flower dog outside the Guggenheim.
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Incredibots
18/11/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
Lots of fun and frustration to be had here trying to design and build trucks to move things. The physics engine is superb!
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World Map Quiz
16/11/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
Do you know your Belarus from your Benin? Your Nepal from from your Namibia?
Here’s the site to test your knowledge of world countries
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Beautiful Sea Creatures
10/11/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
We know more about the surface of the earth than we do of our own ocean. What other astonishing animals are there lying undiscovered?
These beautiful animals are called Nudibranchs which are soft bodied, shell-less molluscs or their scientifc term of sea slugs. When you see how beautiful some of them are you’ll realise how I find it amazing that they belong to the same group of animals that eat all the plants in my garden.
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Congo Crisis
03/11/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
Having recently read Blood River which was the brilliant story of a journalist’s journey down the modern day Congo River, I was not surprised to see that the country seems to be imploding under a typically ugly African Civil war. The images from the Boston Globe are stunning and yet so typically depressingly familiar for ceratin parts of Africa.
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How good is your punctuation?
01/11/2008 by Chris Prettejohn.
Anything that’s fun and educational is a winner for me. Lynee Truss has been the high priestess of punctuation for some time and her book Eats, Shoots and Leaves a national succerss. Persoanlly I’ve never been able to work out where the apostrophe goes on Jesus’s’ Sandal’s’ ! This quiz will hopefully teach me!
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