In Pure Spirit

In the Scottish town of Saint Andrews, by the railings of the Hope Park Church, is a large stone with a strange blue patch. The stone wasn’t always beside Hope Park Church, it once rested at Magnus Muir where Knights of Scotland used to swear their oaths. The legend behind the Blue Stane of St [...]

The International weather and science website The WeatherSpace has some rather remarkable video footage. The site says a number of different photographs had been sent to it showing a most unusual spiral in the sky – and a glowing, moving orb. Rather sensibly The WeatherSpace reminds readers of the spiral seen in the sky of [...]

Image via CrunchBase Prompted by Al Write Now I’ve had a quick look into which of the mobile operators let you sell your phone back to them. Turns out o2 have the lead in this area and operate o2 Recycle. Now, o2 were the first network in the UK to be allowed to sell Apple’s [...]

It’s increasingly common for people to try and block adverts on websites. To do this they’ll install some software that simply makes known ads appear as blank spaces when they visit websites. I guess people do this for a number of reasons. Some might just hate seeing ads when they browse. Others don’t like the [...]

The 22 of May is the International Day for Biological Diversity (aka IDB). It’s supported and promoted by The United Nations. The theme for the 2010 International Biological Diversity Day is “Biodiversity, Development and Poverty Alleviation” and we would like to support that by sharing 21 animal pictures. In Pure Spirit’s IDB suggested mascot International [...]

Here’s some good news from earlier on this week. A gray whale has been sighted off the coast of Israel by Herzliya Marina. This is good news because the gray whale was previously thought to be extinct across the Atlantic Ocean. It’s shocking but good to find one in the Mediterranean Sea! The Grey Whale [...]

NASA has published photos from its MODIS (ahem; that’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometre) from its Terra satellite of the Gulf of Mexico. The strange arm like curl is nothing other than the BP disaster. The oil silk from the well. These photos come to IPS via Tree Hugger and the excellent Michael Graham Richard. That’s [...]