Beautiful but disturbing image of the eerie blue glow in the waters around Hong Kong, caused by pollution. The blue glow is an indicator of a harmful algal bloom, Noctiluca Scintillans, nicknamed Sea Sparkle. The single cell organism can function as both animal and plant.
And on the subject of humans behaving like we have another planet to move to when we've completely ruined this one, here are some shocking photos of pollution in China (including the one below of a journalist taking a sample of the red water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang, Henan province in December 2011) on the Bored Panda website: http://www.boredpanda.com/pollution-china/
Richard
Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at
Princeton University and Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global
Studies. He is also former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human
rights.
I walked past this statue yesterday. Cast in 1949 by Albin Polasek; installed in Chicago on May 29, 1955. This
sculpture honors Tomas Masaryk (1850-1937): Czech fighter, author, and
diplomat, the first president of Czechoslovakia (created after the First
World War), who taught briefly at the nearby University of Chicago in
1902 and 1908.
In legend, the knights sleep under Mt. Blanik in Bohemia, waiting to
follow St. Wenceslaus into battle in the country's hour of need. More info. @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blan%C3%ADk
