WHY are EUROPEAN FORESTS so POOR

Christmas is a time to remember our loved ones, but trees in Europe have a problem, they don't have neighbours.
In Europe there are a lot of forests that are dominated by one species of tree, but it wasn´t like that in the past, it was just a trial of maintaining forests without knowing anything about ecology.
When people started to cut down trees in a grant scale they recreated the forests with the seed they found and could plant.
And also shows how important it is to be varied, so everything doesn´t look the same.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NEWTON

Christmas day, christmas day, but what about Newton's birthday.
You know, the guy who discovered gravity with Edward Halley?
Well, the "COSMOS an spacetime odyssey" series made an episode all about newton.
Happy birthday,Newton.

an ANCIENT IVORY is RISING

This is probably the ONLY reason global warming can save wildlife.

The reason,Mammoths.Mammoth ivory is the only legal ivory in most countries, and many people crave it, but it took a lot of effort to find and dig a tusk of Mamoth out of the thick ice, un til now.
The ice is getting weaker, thiner and shorter, now tusk don't have to be dug, you just separate them from the ice.
This could get read of the pressure of ivory...   for a while.

But meanwhile enjoy Saturnalia.

a LETTER to VASC

A week ago the day of the Vasc language was celebrated, it celebrates the persistance of a european language isolated within the ages, a language that is older than latin and survived the romans, no one knows were it comes from,Were there the imigrants of the first russians or just some lonely tribes?
This is a very important part of my culture, when you invade a city one of the things you do first is getting rid of their culture, their art, the way they cook and their language (Except of course, the mongols)

, this is a remainder of a survival, a group of tribes that found the way to  avoid invasion and persits, to the end...
If you wanna hear a vasc song just try this one:Ilargia/Ken Zazpi

the ILLEGAL TRADITION that was accidentaly REPEATED

Near the end of November a giant hay goat is transported to the main street, and another tradition is to then...
Burn it!
Actually this structure is made to stay, but the first time it was in the main street a car accidentally burned it.
And this hapened every year and started to be made by tourists that thought it was a tradition, and now each year some tourist(s) break the law to continue this tradition.