Monthly Archives: April 2014

Luk Thung Garage Funk

April 2, 2014 – 12:57 pm

Modern Thai music is dominated by Pop bands churning out hits, however a purer form of music is Pleng Luk Thong or ‘music from the children of the fields’. The folk songs telling the stories of the poor became popular in the first half of the 20th Century and blossomed in the 1960s with the […]

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Cleaning Out The Zoo

April 2, 2014 – 12:23 pm

The Copenhagen Zoo has come under attack for first killing Marius, a giraffe, on the grounds that its genes were too close to the female giraffe. This culling of a healthy giraffe was according to the BBC, which reported that since 1828 only five giraffes have been euthanised for conservation reasons. The zoo further explained […]

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Finding Nothing In The Right Places

April 2, 2014 – 10:59 am

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Southern Ocean was called off, because of a cyclone crossing the Roaring 40s. Five ships and 11 aircraft scheduled to cruise the remote seas some 2500km southwest of Perth were warned of the impending storm and headed to safety of Perth. A naval officer announced, […]

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Cut Schurkes Loose

April 2, 2014 – 9:01 am

According to Wikipedia the etymology of the word “shark” might have been derived from the Yucatec Maya word xok, pronounced ‘shok’. Evidence for this etymology comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, which notes shark first came into use after Sir John Hawkins’ sailors exhibited one in London in 1569 and posted “sharke” to refer to […]

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Rogue Wave

April 2, 2014 – 8:40 am

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. Lord Byron

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