Home » other » Let's visit Siberia
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Let's visit Siberia
mariyam | 8:50 AM | otherThose of us living in Wisconsin have been spared the incessant and record-setting snowfalls suffered by residents of the Northeast. What we have is bone-chilling cold. This week our normal high temperature would be at the freezing point, but we have had nights when, if the temperature rose 40 degrees, it would still be below freezing.
This seems like an appropriate time for me to post the material I've been collecting about Siberia. Several months ago I started doing some online research about those "mysterious craters" that were appearing near the Arctic Circle in Siberia. That reading very quickly led me to a new favorite source - The Siberian Times - a remarkably diverse and well-written news site with some refreshingly different material from that which is usually shared endlessly in the blogosphere.
I've written ten posts, with in retrospect a bit of an emphasis on archaeology, one of my hobbies. But we'll start with those craters...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Search
Popular Posts
-
We'll begin with the photograph above (credit here , via BoingBoing 2006): "...the community of Beloit, Wisconsin came together on...
-
The Faulkner Glossary contains both local Mississippi dialect words and the "highfalutin" words of conventional English used by t...
-
YouTube link . Anders Lund Madsen is a professional comedian. These supplemental notes from the uploader/subtitler: The reason i didn'...
-
I learned from reading Collector's Weekly that there are people who collect chewing gum. In the U.S., there are about half a dozen ser...
-
This is likely to have some effect on food prices in the United States. Nearly the entire Golden State – 99.81 percent to be exact — is in t...
-
From the collections of the Musée "Bible et Terre Sainte" - This stone mask from the pre-ceramic neolithic period dates to 7000 ...
-
A tourist seeking to take pictures of Yellowstone National Park crashed a camera-equipped drone into its largest hot spring , possibly dama...
-
My curiosity started with the above image, from a bestiary quiz at Medievalists.net . The creature depicted is identified as a beaver, but ...
-
Herewith three selections from a gallery of iceberg photos at The Telegraph . Top photo credit to Steppes Travel. The beautifully-laminate...
Blog Archive
-
▼
2015
(214)
-
▼
February
(65)
- YouTube anniversary video compilation
- Hiatus
- Umbrella pines
- Is a global currency war coming?
- There's a huge difference between "masticophilia" ...
- A new video series from The American Museum of Nat...
- Limpet teeth - nature's strongest natural material
- 17 nude people
- Fennec fox
- The history of dunking in basketball
- My grandfather's encounter with M. bovis
- There's a surprise inside
- "It depends on the size of the gun and the size of...
- Your religious is ridiculous. Mine makes sense.
- This skull was extensively trepanned. For scruples.
- Eisenhower's 91% income tax rate
- TBS compresses Seinfeld - updated
- Otzi's copper axe
- Jim Croce's "Operator" (1972)
- Where to find quiet
- 5 minutes
- The craters of Siberia - updated
- Let's visit Siberia
- "Festival of Colours" in Siberia
- Siberian Bronze age armor made of bone
- Siberian mummies adorned with copper
- Siberian warrior with bear fang embedded in his no...
- Siberian luminous earthworms
- Siberian "farmyard rap"
- Ancient wooden statue found in Siberia
- Tattoos of the princess of the Sochi paralympics
- A Siberian linkdump
- Sigiriya
- I was never invited to "chicken pox parties" - upd...
- I challenge you to a game of 2048 - updated
- Poop-sniffing dogs as conservation tools
- The other side of the moon
- Review of an anti-vaccination book for children
- A product for avid bicyclists
- Lord of the Rings mythology, continued
- "A cat walks into a bar"
- "Color Tiles" game
- "Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
- Ukraine's currency is collapsing
- You'll probably never guess the most common job in...
- A modern day "parsley massacre"
- Count the black dots
- The tops of these two tables are the same shape
- This hat is as wide as it is tall
- A mushroom cap
- Elaborate stage illusion - updated
- More than you would ever need to know about beaver...
- Some Vikings filed their teeth
- "Deflagration" demonstrated by "fire-breathing" us...
- Anti-vaxxers of the 1930s
- "Went With The Wind"
- An ant-mimicking treehopper
- "Smart gun" explained
- Buddy Holly had 20/800 vision
- Incredible short-handed hockey goal
- Carved conch shell
- Trail marker trees
- "In your face" mites
- This is not an in-utero photograph of a fetus
- You can "micro-volunteer" your time to help a blin...
-
▼
February
(65)
No comments:
Post a Comment