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Warbling Whales Speak a Language All Their OwnThe songs of the humpback whale are among the most complex in the animal kingdom. Researchers have now mathematically confirmed that whales have their own syntax that uses sound units to build phrases that can be combined to form songs that last for hours.
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_MG_0180_wtsmore tree shadows. beautiful shot in brooklyn by laura holder.
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double tree in gowanusminimalism at blue jake.

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food fight
the first shot of the four, definitely.

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year 4
easy to stare at for a while.

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l'océan et la mer
beautiful blues at EYESwideSHUT.

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white swan in ice water
still life.

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people having seriously more fun than us
smitten's midair take on the blizzard in central park.

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Photo in the News: Orion Nebula
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured one of the most detailed astronomical images in history. beautiful.

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santa monica
pixpopuli and southern california street cart.

:: arctic drilling measure is dropped
finally, some good political news.

:: tree and cat
gorgeous shot on DYSWIS.

:: The district has identified $35 million in projects to build and improve levees, floodwalls and pumping stations...
in St. Bernard, Orleans, Jefferson and St. Charles parishes. but in june of this year, the president and the government were busy cutting New Orleans district budgets for 2006, including the financial support for the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project.

:: louisiana's wetlands
from national geographic, oct 2004: The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City.

:: message from New Orleans
9/2 information and a plea for equipment from the emergency services in New Orleans, at lightningfield.

:: im-ok.org
brandon stone's contribution to katrina refugees: Why this registry is different... By using the person's telephone number, you can find out immediately if there is information or not. This allows you to pinpoint a specific person or household..

:: sleeping with the fishes
low resolution under water.

:: reach!
squirrels go for it in toronto.

:: the fog
a phenomenal mexican pictures skyline of lower manhattan from raul.

:: sophia
joe's daughter in a monet garden in amagansett, long island.

:: rainbow
jesse chan-norris above the city.

:: snorkling hanauma bay
paradise teal.

:: tree vanity
"...we adorned the 50 trees that line Bedford Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from north 4th to north 10th with vanity necklaces showing their common names... How many trees that you pass every day can you identify?"

:: red chair
snowbound color, from kamau in march.

:: ice falls from the CN Tower
...ice chunks, the size of doors.

:: winterbaum
i always fall for snowy tree shots. this one in germany at pixelbrand.org.

:: senate roll call to save the arctic refuge
we lost by two votes, but there are still ways to block the drilling...

:: petey at the gates
catching some snowballs...

:: frozen flower buds
from a january ice storm in georgia, by joaobambu.

:: satellite photo of the gates in central park
via kottke. better than the gates, i'm actually more into the way the lakes look frozen.

:: moira on the beach
a lovely turks and caicos snapshot from michelle howley.

:: waspcomb
I waited for the wasp to leave - snagged it - then started shooting it.

:: #288
flying by the snowy wood at 40h.net's daily.

:: hudson ice
karlo gets in close on nyc's frozen river.

:: food circle

:: tsunami aftermath
pages of graphic devastation photos.

:: whiteness
polaroid diary's snow update from hamburg.

:: del.icio.us/tag/tsunami
the growing resource of links recording the devastation.

:: nectarine
yumminess from shutterbug.

:: help pale male
numbers are available on the site to call the mgmt company to request the return of pale male's nest. more info here.

:: continuing death valley
spectacular looking earth at carte blanche pedicure.

:: it got cold...
frost on the window in edmonton, from photoblogger newbie daily.2708.net.

:: biosphere birds
photojunkie's capture of the skies over montreal.

:: cleaned out
pumpkins at pant's place.

:: meteor crater, arizona
from above.

:: from the back streets of kathmandu
and more... street and country photos from nepal and other places, from Terra.

:: flowers in a window
from mike golding in london.

:: holding on
autumn captured with frosk.org's signature rich color and short depth of field.

:: two swans looking for a hand out
great color and contrast in this from mute.rigent.com in toronto.

:: kids in the leaves and cliff stairs
two great images from montreal's dyswis.

:: franz josef glacier
phenomenal full-screen new zealand from waytoblue.org

:: autumn 1
nyc art collective's yummy polarizer

:: eclipse coverage
conversation from the kids at photoblogs.org.

:: autumn tree
from lorissa at london's apparently nothing.
