8/14/2019 Halibut Herald December 24 http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/halibut-herald-december-24 1/7 ALIBUT HERALD December 24, 2009 Once upon a time, in Germany, the first gingerbread houses were built after bakers were inspired by the Brothers Grimm tale, Hansel and Gretel. Since that time, gingerbread house designs have exploded with popularity. READ ON: http://weburbanist.com/2009/12/16/32-astounding-architectural-designs-of-gingerbread-houses/ Gingerbread Mansions & Other GB Architectural Wonders IY Projects Galore! MAKE Sends ut 2009 Opensource Hardware uide pensource! We love this golden green idea because it compasses the idea-sharing that is vital to DIY mmunities, which in turn are vital for sustainable ng. Jam-packed with projects for the do-it-yourself mmunity, it is "the definitive guide to open source rdware projects in 2009." EAD ON: p://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/diy- ojects-galore-make-sends-out-2009-opensource- rdware-guide.php Follow Santa Claus, courtesy Google and NO Santa Claus is coming to your town -- and NORAD is tracking him as drops off presents around the world. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which monitors the North American airspace, on Thursday set up an official "Santa Tracker" on its website (www.noradsanta.org) in seven languages to find the current location upcoming stops of Santa and his storied reindeer.’ READ ON: http://www.physorg.com/news180877905.html
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Once upon a time, in Germany, the first gingerbread houses were built after bakers were inspired by the BrothersGrimm tale, Hansel and Gretel. Since that time, gingerbread house designs have exploded with popularity.READ ON: http://weburbanist.com/2009/12/16/32-astounding-architectural-designs-of-gingerbread-houses/
Gingerbread Mansions & Other GB Architectural Wonders
IY Projects Galore! MAKE Sendsut 2009 Opensource Hardwareuide
pensource! We love this golden green idea because itcompasses the idea-sharing that is vital to DIYmmunities, which in turn are vital for sustainableng. Jam-packed with projects for the do-it-yourselfmmunity, it is "the definitive guide to open sourcerdware projects in 2009."
Santa Claus is coming to your town -- and NORAD is tracking him asdrops off presents around the world. The North American AerospaceDefense Command, which monitors the North American airspace, onThursday set up an official "Santa Tracker" on its website(www.noradsanta.org) in seven languages to find the current location
upcoming stops of Santa and his storied reindeer.’READ ON: http://www.physorg.com/news180877905.html
nificant rivers, but new research is showing that they are alsoessential support for the coastal and oceanic food webs.solved organic matter, some more than 4,000 years old, ischarged by the glaciers and, in spite of its age, has proven toa highly potent food source for microbes in the ocean.AD ON: http://bit.ly/6V0gEJ
anta Gang in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
t a shot I came across this morning that made me smile. Enjoy! SOURCE: http://twitpic.com/uy8jq
Spiders Decorate Webs with Ornaments
However, the festive scene takes on sinister new meaning.Researchers have just discovered that, similar to how humaare drawn to holiday ornaments, spider prey are drawn to thdeath by colorful, shimmering decorations.READ ON: http://news.discovery.com/animals/spider-wchristmas-decorations.html
Ribbons,shimmery fltufts and hinred and gremight soundChristmas tornaments,these decortouches havbeen spottethe webs ofweaving spaccording tonew study.
at does almost two feet of snow covering several hundred miles look like fromce? Well, this: a giant mass of white. NASA's Aqua satellite captured this
w of the storm's aftermath -- stretching from the ridges of the Appalachianuntains, over to the Chesapeake Bay and the Delmarva Peninsula -- as thetem moved out of the region early morning on December 20.AD ON: http://news.discovery.com/earth/record-breaking-snow-storm-
ellite-image.html
Female Reindeer Pull Santa'sSleigh… And Other Fun ReindFacts
Mixing fact with fiction, Jeanna Bryner at LiveScience argues that all of the reindeer mentiin stories about Santa Claus had to have beefemale. Here's why:
• Females keep their antlers throughowinter, but males shed theirs in earlyDecember. Illustrations of Santa's slpullers uniformly show reindeer withantlers.
• The mating season depletes males ofat, leaving them with just 5 percent their scrawny frames around Christmtime. Females, on the other hand, re50 percent of their body fat. They'd bshape to haul Santa.
• The extra body fat on females duringwinter "which can be a couple of inchthick on their rumps, keeps the reindtoasty in temperatures as low as mindegrees Fahrenheit," Bryner writes. Females again would be prepared fo journey.
Conclusion according to Bryner, "Santa chosall-female crew."READ ON: http://news.discovery.com/animals/femalereindeers-pull-santas-sleigh.htmlC
ecycled Christmas Trees Make Fish Habitat
u wouldn't believe how beneficial those recycled trees are," said Blake.
erywhere (Division of Natural Resources workers) put them, you cannt on finding fish."ry year, the DNR collects discarded trees and sinks them into Westinia's lakes to create fish habitat. Blake, a diving enthusiast from Tyler
untain, said the trees act as artificial reefs, providing fish with places toe or to ambush prey.e difference between areas without trees and with them is like night and," he said. "You can be cruising along, seeing nothing but mud and rocks maybe a fish or two, and all of a sudden you come upon a clump of
istmas trees and there are 100 fish around it."AD ON:p://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/92/2009/decembe8/recycled-christmas-trees-make-wva-fish-habitat.html
Ancient Pygmy Sea Cow Discove
A McGill researcher has discovered a near-comp
skull of a primitive "dugong" illuminating a virtuallyunknown period in Madagascar fossil history. READ ON: http://bit.ly/7XejqV
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