HMN - Reader: "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?"

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Snowy Oxford

There's the Arctic Fox, the Red Fox, the Fennec Fox, and I'm pretty sure are a thousand other kinds that I don't know. I've chosen some really nice pictures of them, which I know will just melt your cold beings (just kidding). Fore more of these guys, you should really check out each photographer's portfolio. I hope you enjoy these. Cheers! ;)

Foxes are definitely one the cutest animals out there and for sure one of the few that really look good in photographies. It's just impressive how cool these little foxy creatures are, in all their varieties. I want one.

Muineach

David Lloyd

Ron&Mamie Charest

Keven Law

Roeselien Raimond

Bud Marschner

Vladimir Naumoff

IN CHERL KIM

James Scott

IN CHERL KIM

Facebook intern Paul Butler has been poring through some of the data held by the social networking firm on its 500m members.

The map above is the result of his attempts to visualise where people live relative to their Facebook friends. Each line connects cities with pairs of friends. The brighter the line, the more friends between those cities.

After tweaking the graphic and data set it produced a "surprisingly detailed map of the world," he said in a blog post.

"Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well," he wrote.

"What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships."

However, large chunks of the world are missing, such as China and central Africa, where Facebook has little presence.

According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8°Celsius (1.4°Fahrenheit) since 1880. Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20°C per decade.

The maps above show temperature anomalies, or changes, for 2000-2009 (top) and 1970-1979. The maps do not depict absolute temperature, but how much warmer or colder a region is compared to the norm for that same region from 1951-1980. That period was chosen largely because the U.S. National Weather Service uses a three-decade period to define "normal" or average temperature. The GISS temperature analysis effort began around 1980, so the most recent 30 years were 1951-1980. It is also a period when many of today's adults grew up, so it is a common reference that many people can remember. (source)

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