Chimneys

I've been reading The Last Generation for the last 3 days or so. It's very doomsday in nature. The first chunk that I read talked about these "chimneys" in the Greenland Sea which is between Greenland, Iceland and Norway. These chimneys are these giant whirlpools about 10 kms across that take water at the surface and funnel it down about 3 km to the sea floor! Peter Wadhams, a UK scientist spotted about 12 of them when he first sighted them, but last time he got out there, there was like 1 1/2 left, the 2nd one not even reaching the surface anymore. Craziness!

Just imagine being one of the few people in the world who has seen one things!! I wonder if you woulda been in danger of having your boat sucked into it if you got too close. Certain doom for sure :|

Library fun!

Today I made a trip to the public library. I seem to be having a women and world doom kick going right now! Here is what I got:

* Islam, Women, and the Challenges of Today (by Farzana Hassanshahid)
* The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change (by Fred Pearce)
* the Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory (by J.M. Adovasio)
* The Ruby Way: Programming in Ruby (by Hal Fulton)

Ok, the last one is just me being curious about all this hype with Ruby. I am intrigued!

Books books books!

This week's library haul:

• Global Mother Tongue: The Eight Flavours of English (by Howard Richler)
  
• Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics
  (by Nina Byers and Gary Williams)
  
• Pride of Baghdad (by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon)
  
• Words of a feather (by Murray Suid)