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Award winning American journalist and author, Alan Weisman, has written what seems to me to be a fascinating book entitled the World Without Us. He’s taken a hot but rather depressing subject of Global Warming and put an interesting twist on it: he’s presented what the world would be like after humans have died off.
Here’s an excerpt from the book’s web site, where you can also read a sample chapter from the book:

In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; what of our everyday stuff may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.

Here’s a video highlighting what the book is about on YouTube.
Here’s a video clip of the author being interviewed by Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.
Here’s an audio interview of the author on the Scientific American podcast.

The countdown to the muslim fasting month of Ramadan has begun. In 10 to 11 days Muslims around the world will start fasting from sunrise to suset, abstaining from food, drink and sex during the fast. It is a month of forgiveness, charity and remembering the creator, Allah, even more than the rest of the year. It is the time to pray, more than ever, for world peace, an end to world hunger and a better world for everyone. Ameen!

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New Pakistani TV show. Learned about it here.

Four Seasons, One Tree

Originally uploaded by xj_effektz

Superimpose a rainbow on a tree.

The NASA web site has a photo of the greek fires as seen from space. So sad to learn that this may have been initiated by arsonists [seven people have been charged with starting a fire that has claimed the lives of 63!].