From Lisa we get this link at NPR – – “Last month monarch butterflies began an annual northward journey from their overwintering habitat in Mexico. Monarch expert Lincoln Brower discusses the dwindling monarch populations, and explains how habitat loss in Mexico and a decline in milkweed plant numbers in the U.S. may be harming the familiar orange and black fliers.”
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/12/177029257/monitoring-the-monarchs
Image Credit Flickr User Steve Took It
Code Switch is a new blog from NPR. The writers are six NPR journalists who cover race, ethnicity and culture.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/
Lisa found this one – – “Seven hundred years ago, millions of Europeans were wiped out by a disease we still don’t entirely understand. The Black Death might seem like a pretty open-and-shut case at this point: It was caused by plague-bearing fleas that hitched rides on the rats that infested a grim and grimy medieval world. The End. But that simplified version only makes sense if you overlook some important facts about how the plague (which still exists) operates today . . .”
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/08/shedding-light-on-the-black-de.html
An English class this beautiful morning met in the fountain in front of the library. The weather is so beautiful – what else can you do?
SBC grad Leah Busque is talking *right now* on the Women in the World Summit 2013. Watch live!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw.html
“Google remains the undisputed king of search, with about two-thirds of the market. But the nature of search is changing, especially as more people search for what they want to buy, eat or learn on their mobile devices. This has put the $22 billion search industry, perhaps the most lucrative and influential of online businesses, at its most significant crossroad since its invention.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/technology/as-web-search-goes-mobile-apps-chip-at-googles-lead.html?_r=0
The first exhibition of NY city’s flamenco history is at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/arts/dance/100-years-of-flamenco-in-new-york-at-public-library.html?smid=fb-share
From the National Archives – – On April 4, 1968, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot in Memphis, Tennessee, as he leaned over a railing at the Lorraine Motel. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. in Memphis (8:05 p.m. EST)
This page from the President Johnson’s daily diary records that LBJ was notified of the shooting at 7:24 p.m. EST. On the next page, at 8:20 p.m. EST, the Justice Department informs LBJ that Martin Luther King, Jr., has died. The next several hours are a mix of the tragic (a condolence call to King’s widow) and the mundane (family dinner) and the business of running the country (calls to the Attorney General).
http://research.archives.gov/description/192476
Archaeologists say temple doorway belching noxious gas matches ancient accounts of ‘portal to the underworld’: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302755/Gate-Hell-Turkey-Hierapolis-temple-doorway-matches-mythical-portal-underworld.html
