62 days ago by US Global Investors

Energy and Natural Resources Market Radar (December 12, 2011) Strengths In another sign of robust emerging market oil demand, China’s refineries boosted daily oil processing to a record last month after state plants maximized production to ease a domestic diesel shortage. Refining rose 5.4 percent t ...

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91 days ago by naturalistsnote

My morning began with a murmuration. That’s the proper term for a flock of starlings. I didn’t see the birds here in Maine, though Pamelia and I are finally back home from our trip to England and New York (more on that below). I saw this swarming, weaving, shape-shifting marvel of nature in a video ...

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98 days ago by Carolyn McDowall

‘Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill’? * The Bodleian Libraries at Oxford in England have announced they are putting on show, for the first time, the original manuscript of the ‘boys own’ essential reading material Lord of the Flies. The manuscript by Nobel Prize winning nove ...

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171 days ago by Richard Barrett

As I announced back in May, I got to spend the second week of August in Oxford, England for the 2011 Oxford Patristics Conference. It was a fantastic experience, and it will get its own blog post soon (I should be able to return to more regular postings now that Flesh of My Flesh is back from her ye ...

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251 days ago by Linda Hedrick

Elias Ashmole's coat of arms, 1925, in a window of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Combine acquisitiveness with perseverance, ambition, and wealth, and you have Elias Ashmole. This son of a saddler lived a life of varied experiences, a lot of learning, and the desire to share. It is th ...

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