Tag: water

  • Nestlé CEO Doesn’t Think Water is a Basic Right, Should be Privatized

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    I found the original post and this video on Crooks and Liars. The absolute hubris of this guy is breathtaking. I guess we peons have no right to water, we need him and the great Nestlé Corporation to control it and portion it out to us – at a cost.  My sentiments are with this guy:…

  • Nature’s Ceaseless Variety Produces Living Rock

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     Jess Zimmerman‘s entertaining piece about a sea creature that looks like a rock is, well…strange. se The fact that this sea creature looks exactly like a rock with guts is not even the weirdest thing about it. It’s also completely immobile like a rock — it eats by sucking in water and filtering out microorganisms — and its…

  • Life Teems in one of the most isolated places on earth

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    In Popsci, Francie Diep reports on a new study of Lake Vostok – Antartica’s largest sealed lake: For this study, the Ohio biologists examined ice gathered from just underneath Lake Vostok’s glacier, at the lake’s southern edges. Scientists think such ice, called accretion ice, represents water from the surface of the lake that froze to…

  • Microbes to be ‘last survivors’ on future Earth

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    From an article by Rebecca Morelle, Science reporter, BBC World Service: The last surviving creatures on Earth will be tiny organisms living deep underground, according to scientists. Researchers used a computer model to assess our planet’s fate billions of years from now. They found that as the Sun becomes hotter and brighter, only microbes would…

  • Water Drops, Daisies and Bumblebees

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    The photo above provides a wonderful demonstration of the physics of light in water drops as well as the attraction of water molecules to plant molecules and to one another. In this case, the liquid drops result from rain and fog. A drop of liquid behaves like a simple lens – just like a camera. Therefore, the refracted image is upside-down when viewed through the drop. Somehow, bees,…

  • How does world’s oldest water taste? ‘Terrible.’

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    Earth Science Professor, Barbara Sherwood Lollar describes the oldest water ever discovered ( possibly as old as 2.6 billion years, when Earth was less than half its current age) in a recent interview with Deborah Netburn of the Los Angeles Times: “What jumps out at you first is the saltiness. Because of the reactions between the water and the…