THE Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries cover a 9,245 square km area that includes the Sichuan Basin,Wolong Nature Reserve,the National Scenic Area of the Siguniang Mountain,and Jiajin Mountain.In the area are seven natur...THE Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries cover a 9,245 square km area that includes the Sichuan Basin,Wolong Nature Reserve,the National Scenic Area of the Siguniang Mountain,and Jiajin Mountain.In the area are seven nature reserves and nine scenic areas in 12 prefectures of four cities,including Chengdu,Ngawa,Ya’an,and Garze.This region is the habitat of nearly all the 1,600 wild giant pandas in the world,as well as other endangered animals like the red panda,snow leopard,and clouded leopard.The natural environment here is similar to that of tertiary rain forests,and is one of the botanically richest regions outside tropical rain Culture / Travel The Modern Legend of the Giant Panda:A Journey with Humankind forests.It has been selected by Conservation International as one of 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world,and was identified by World Wildlife Fund(WWF)as one of the Global 200 ecoregions.展开更多
The thesis of this paper is that the digital noosphere of the World Wide Web and its users,the borderless move of virtually all resources of the planet,and the consequent globalization of most aspects of national poli...The thesis of this paper is that the digital noosphere of the World Wide Web and its users,the borderless move of virtually all resources of the planet,and the consequent globalization of most aspects of national politics,economy,and culture,along with the increasing difficulty of controlling the related high-tech military conflicts,human-made environmental crises,and the abnormal migrations of abused people now make it inevitable to leave behind the competitive international chaos rooted in humankind’s animal past and turn to the cooperative social spirit recommended by Aristotle,Lao Tzu,Jesus,Dante,H.G.Wells,Martin Luther King Jr.,John Lennon,Nicholas Hagger,and others to finally translate their aspirations into actions via establishing the Government of Earth for the decent and free.The paper presents a five-step,15-year,~$25B plan to start this process.That this plan has nothing to do with the Godless work of secret societies,the authoritarian urges of renewed fascism or the political absurdities of Marxism-Leninism it is relayed by the envisioned Intercontinental Education System of the outlined Government of Earth to teach every child on the planet-via a new community of digitally linked extraordinary teachers-for the beauty of lifelong learning,tolerance,duty,honor,free cooperation,and artful communication for divine missions.展开更多
Archeology: A newly discovered trove of African fossils sheds light on ourearliest ancestors Fossil hunter Meave Leakey was out in the scorched hills near Kenya’sLake Turkana last year, measuring prehistoric pig jaws...Archeology: A newly discovered trove of African fossils sheds light on ourearliest ancestors Fossil hunter Meave Leakey was out in the scorched hills near Kenya’sLake Turkana last year, measuring prehistoric pig jaws, when her colleagueWambua Mangao shouted there was something she needed to see. He had spot-ted five patches of bluish tooth enamel embedded in a piece of stone,展开更多
文摘THE Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries cover a 9,245 square km area that includes the Sichuan Basin,Wolong Nature Reserve,the National Scenic Area of the Siguniang Mountain,and Jiajin Mountain.In the area are seven nature reserves and nine scenic areas in 12 prefectures of four cities,including Chengdu,Ngawa,Ya’an,and Garze.This region is the habitat of nearly all the 1,600 wild giant pandas in the world,as well as other endangered animals like the red panda,snow leopard,and clouded leopard.The natural environment here is similar to that of tertiary rain forests,and is one of the botanically richest regions outside tropical rain Culture / Travel The Modern Legend of the Giant Panda:A Journey with Humankind forests.It has been selected by Conservation International as one of 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world,and was identified by World Wildlife Fund(WWF)as one of the Global 200 ecoregions.
文摘The thesis of this paper is that the digital noosphere of the World Wide Web and its users,the borderless move of virtually all resources of the planet,and the consequent globalization of most aspects of national politics,economy,and culture,along with the increasing difficulty of controlling the related high-tech military conflicts,human-made environmental crises,and the abnormal migrations of abused people now make it inevitable to leave behind the competitive international chaos rooted in humankind’s animal past and turn to the cooperative social spirit recommended by Aristotle,Lao Tzu,Jesus,Dante,H.G.Wells,Martin Luther King Jr.,John Lennon,Nicholas Hagger,and others to finally translate their aspirations into actions via establishing the Government of Earth for the decent and free.The paper presents a five-step,15-year,~$25B plan to start this process.That this plan has nothing to do with the Godless work of secret societies,the authoritarian urges of renewed fascism or the political absurdities of Marxism-Leninism it is relayed by the envisioned Intercontinental Education System of the outlined Government of Earth to teach every child on the planet-via a new community of digitally linked extraordinary teachers-for the beauty of lifelong learning,tolerance,duty,honor,free cooperation,and artful communication for divine missions.
文摘Archeology: A newly discovered trove of African fossils sheds light on ourearliest ancestors Fossil hunter Meave Leakey was out in the scorched hills near Kenya’sLake Turkana last year, measuring prehistoric pig jaws, when her colleagueWambua Mangao shouted there was something she needed to see. He had spot-ted five patches of bluish tooth enamel embedded in a piece of stone,
