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Read the THIRD page of The Lake Bound Adventures of Chinku and Jabari, and keep coming back for more, every Sunday night at midnight in France, a new page will be posted for your viewing pleasure. If you’re on the east coast of the USA, that means at 6 pm, if you’re on the west coast, that’s 3 pm. Or just use it to distract yourself Monday morning when you get back to work. Also, Chapter 4 of the novel Antoinette’s Fish is now available for reading. Enjoy! The fish in Anotoinette’s Fish are cichlids that come from Lake Tanganyika, and many cichlid hobbyists prefer to have fish that have been raised in the wild, but in the United States, about half of all the tropical fish sold are raised on farms in Florida. Unfortunately, the cold snap in Florida is killing millions of tropical fish. Read the full story from the New York Times. These turbines spin on a horizontal axis, and are less efficient than if they were turned and spun on a vertical axis, according to researchers. Photo by Mancio7B9 Researchers from the California Institute of Technology presented a fishy idea to the American Physical Society of Fluid Dynamics in November. They suggested that, by studying the way fish swim in schools, they can set up better wind farms using a different kind of windmill. The windmill would have its turbines spinning on a vertical axis, rather than horizontal, and would be more efficient. This would mean less land would be needed Our story takes place on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in various points around the town of Kigoma. Antoinette’s Fish is a young adult novel, currently in its finishing stages and coming to a bookstore near you. At least we hope it will be. It is the story of Annie Velter, a twelve year old adventurer who goes all the way to Africa, by herself, to help her Grandmother (Antoinette) save the fish of Lake Tanganyika. This website has been created to talk about the book and its progress, share sample chapters, give background information about the many interesting things discussed in the book (like tropical fish, scuba diving, Tanzanian hip-hop and Moroccan food), provide a link Read the second page of The Lake Bound Adventures of Chinku and Jabari, and keep coming back for more, every Sunday night at midnight in France, a new page will be posted for your viewing pleasure. If you’re on the east coast of the USA, that means at 6 pm, if you’re on the west coast, that’s 3 pm. Or just use it to distract yourself Monday morning when you get back to work. photo by Caranx latus Through a collaboration between REEF, the Cayman Island Department of the Environment, and Oregon State University, the Grouper Moon project, started in April 2008, continues. It is deep water spawning time, and project leader Phil Bush recently announced that divers plan to swim down 60 meters to tag spawning groupers, to better keep track of their movements and see if they survive until the next spawning season. This way they can better decide which spawning areas must be protected. Read the AP story. photo by Brenden Delzer, brenden on flickr.com Lunch, Roar & Score – Win an Animal Planet Adventure with TV personality Jeff Corwin! If you eat Kraft Lunchables, you can find a number on the packaging to enter into the website and see if you’ve won. And of course there are directions on how to enter without buying their product as well, see the fine print at the bottom of the screen. You have to be a kid to enter, age 6 – 17, and even the smaller prizes look fun. Even if you don’t want to enter, there’s a neat “Animal Mix-Up” |
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