Flock of scarlet and white ibises in flight above green meadow with blue sky background.
from morn83's photostream
from morn83's photostream
via flickr.com
Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
by Matt Gragg Photography Travel by Nature
This photo was taken in the Kahuku tract of Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island.
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"More Americans are buying ammunition and guns than ever before. Are the same trends that are prompting ordinary Americans to buy gold also prompting them to stock up on guns and ammo ?"
via: Ammo.net
"The photo above shows Brush Creek rushing across a wide beach at low tide near Port Orford, Oregon. It was snapped at the base of Humbug Mountain a little past sunset on November 28, 2011. Venus and the waxing crescent Moon are conspicuous in the twilight sky.
Times and amplitudes of the tides are primarily influenced by the alignment of the Sun and Moon. The combined gravitational pull of these bodies when the Moon is full or new create higher amplitude tides than when the Moon is in other phases. Only nine percent of the Moon was illuminated as shown above, just three days following the onset of the new Moon. A minus 1.2 ft (0.4 m) tide (low tide) was recorded here a few hours after the photo was taken. However, during the new Moon, the low tide was considerably more extreme (referred to as the spring tide), dropping to minus 2.1 ft (0.6 m) with a tidal range of 11.1 ft (3.4 m)."
"It’s that annoying realization: “Wait…did I really just put that in my shopping cart because of the pretty packaging ?”
Chances are… Yes, you just did. You just got color-fooled. But don’t worry, it was no simple trick… scores of psychologists have been at work setting up these intricate, appealing traps for decades."
