News di oggi!

Pygmies at the zoo
A group of Pygmy musicians were temporarily lodged in a Republlic of Congo zoo while visiting Brazzaville for a music festival. Visitors to the zoo snapped photos as the 22 pygmies collected wood from the zoo forest and cooked their meals.

Blogging from the prison
Nel carcere Lo Russo e Cotugno di Torino vige il divieto di usare Internet,
come negli altri istituti penitenziari italiani, ma da un paio di anni tre
ragazzi - Hermes Delgrosso, Matteo De Simone e Simone Natale - hanno trovato
il modo di superare l'impedimento aprendo un nuovo canale di comunicazione
tra 'dentro e fuori'. E il nome a quel punto è venuto da sé, www.
dentroefuori. org. Un'iniziativa analoga
esiste solo negli Usa.
www.dentroefuori.org

Emissions don't make Europe happy
Europe's carbon emissions have risen markedly over the last 40 years, but
the extra fuel use has brought little increase in happiness, a report says.
Written by the New Economics Foundation (Nef), it says that reducing social
inequality and energy consumption are key drivers of improved wellbeing.
Iceland has the highest ratio of wellbeing to emissions, with the UK 21st
out of 30 countries assessed.

China warns of more flood misery
Hundreds of thousands of villagers in east China's Huai river basin, already
suffering the region's worst flooding in 50 years, have been told to brace
for more heavy rains this week, state media reported on Monday. Torrential
summer rains across the country have fed floods and landslides that had
killed 403 people, left 105 missing and forced the evacuation of 3.17
million by Friday, the China Daily said.

My So-Called Second Life
For the past few days I've been logging on to a virtual world called
Meteora, which was launched earlier this year by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Second Life, the richly-limned online
community of some six million participants that my 24-year-old colleague
calls "SimCity on crack."
In Meteora, you (or rather, your "avatar") can visit and learn about
environments that few of us will ever experience-like the upper layers of
the stratosphere, where the National Weather Service collects meteorological
data; or the depths of the ocean floor where NOAA's submarines study aquatic
life.