Posts Tagged ‘BBC’
bbc knowledge channel
January 13th, 2010 by lifeproof
BBC launched The Knowledge Channel (wiki) in 1999. There is also a printed BBC Knowledge Magazine. Three Drunk Monkeys of Australia produced a video commercial for BBC Knowledge, Australia that is made of simplistic animation and full of interesting information, such as that the snails can sleep up to three years. Can you believe that? Well, [...]
Tags: BBC, BBC Knowledge Channel, BBC Knowledge Magazine, The Knowledge Channel, Three Drunk Monkeys
Posted in PinPoint, Reminder
Tax the Rich
October 25th, 2009 by lifeproof
There are countries and their conscientious cultures, which define the country’s worldview. Like Russia, Jamaica, Norway—and of course Germany. October 23rd BBC News reported that “a group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.” The report goes on to state that “the group says [...]
Tags: BBC, BBC News, Catholic Church, German, Germany, Protestant Church, Protestantism, Scholasticism
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
Big Brother is Peeping You
September 11th, 2009 by lifeproof
Yesterday a local newspaper, HaberTurk, and many international news resources such as BBC, USA Today, Sky News and others issued a news that did not surprise me at all. In Turkey, a number of women were gathered in a big mansion outside of the city with the promise of attending a Big Brother-esque show. But [...]
Tags: BBC, Big Brother, Chuck Palahniuk, HaberTurk, Haunted, Nuri Alço, Sky News, Turkey, USA Today
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles
MushroomHead
April 7th, 2009 by lifeproof
Cordyceps unilateralis Nowadays, I am watching the series of Planet Earth (aired on BBC and the Discovery Channel), a documentary series of in depth observation of interesting natural structures within our world. The episode, which observes the forests, showed me one of the most mind numbing auto-control mechanisms of the ecosystem: Cordyceps fungus. This fungus [...]
Tags: ant, BBC, Cordyceps fungus, Cordyceps unilateralis, Discovery Channel, documentary, ecology, ecosystem, fungus, insect, nature, Planet Earth
Posted in PinPoint