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To the Land of the Midnight Sun

Posted by Thom on January 9, 2007

This is how much the warm weather in DC is messing with my mind. (Ok, it’s not that cold right now, late 30s, but still…it was almost 70 the other day!)

I was looking up vacations to Greenland last night.


That would be an adventure.

Please make it snow soon!

Currently reading: McGhee, Robert. The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World (Oxford University Press, 2005)

He writes:

I began to write this book as an attempt to understand our vision of the Arctic as a world apart, a place where past and present merge in a distant and compelling land of brilliant light.

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Just a moment for activism

Posted by Thom on January 3, 2007

Happy new year!


Polar Bears May Be Listed as Threatened in the USA

But, there’s no such thing as global warming.

Only 362 days left to make a difference.

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