You can find treasures on Youtube ! “Les terres des temps anciens” (The earthes of ancient times) is one of those treasures and it is ‘Balade Mentale‘ who put it together for us … The video […]
The egg that floats and the egg that sinks
You put two eggs in a bowl full of water. One stays at the surface, it floats; the other one sinks to the bottom like an anvil. “What to do ?”, you might ask. Well, it’s […]
Mangroves: animals, vegetation and location !
Below you can see a satellite picture of the Sundarbans, the mangrove of the Bengal delta straddling India and Bangladesh : The mangrove of the Sundarbans © NASA, Earth Observatory / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 4.0Satellite image […]
A land lagoon or an atoll one ?
There doesn’t seem to be different words in English for what in French we call a ‘lagune’ and a ‘lagon’. In English, we say ‘lagoon’ for both, so let me call the first a ‘land lagoon’ […]
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
Revolutions usually start out thanks to/because of a little group of persons who, supported in thought by the rest of the population, change the regime in place. (Sidenote to my contemporaries about revolutions :I think they rarely […]
Jihad versus crusades
I negligently drop here this magnificent video of sir Bill Warner. The biggest genocide of all times is the one perpetrated by the muslims since 1,400 years. Its nickname : the jihad Its world record (Bill Warner’s […]