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  • Annie Griffiths-Belt photographing Keith and Melina Bellows at the Deildartunguhver Hot Spring (Europe and Iceland's largest hot spring) near Akranes, Iceland.
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  • Flam, Norway
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  • Golden Gate Park Conservatory. San Francisco, California.
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  • Park along the Moselle River which separates Luxembourg and Germany.
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  • Outdoor market vendors sell fresh fruit and vegetables. Toulous, France.
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  • Golden Gate Park, Conservatory. San Francisco, California. USA
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  • Conservatory in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA.
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  • Four people read books and magazines on a park bench. A gray poodle sits with them. Collioure, France.
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant..Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant. Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable.
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  • Two young women lounging in the water at the Blue Lagoon hot springs spa complex near Reykjavik, Iceland. The hot water is the byproduct of Svartsengi power plant, a geothermal electrical generating plant..Pumping 470 F (243 C) water from up to 1-1/4 miles beneath the earth, the plant generates electricity - and a somewhat cooler runoff that is rich in the kind of silicates and salts loved by devotees of mineral baths. Bathing is permitted only in the 2.5-acre (1 ha.) patch of the lake in which the water temperature is tolerable..
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  • Leaning back in his chair, graduate student Jerry Pratt controls Spring Flamingo, a walking robot at the MIT Leg Lab in Cambridge, MA. A branch of MIT's renowned Artificial Intelligence Lab, the Leg Lab is home to researchers whose subjects run the gamut from improved artificial legs to robots that help scientists understand the complex dynamics of the human stride. Tethered to a slightly counterweighted boom that rotates around a pivot, the robot always walks in a circle in the lab.From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 8-9..
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  • (1992) Microbiologist, Tom Brock at Octopus Spring and White Creek (Great Fountain Area) where he found the bacteria Thermus Aquaticus (TAQ 1), which is used in a process to amplify DNA called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). His discovery made automated PCR possible.  Here he was studying the out-flow channels of boiling hot springs. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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  • (1992) Microbiologist, Tom Brock at Octopus Spring and White Creek (Great Fountain Area) where he found the bacteria Thermus Aquaticus (TAQ 1), which is used in a process to amplify DNA called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). His discovery made automated PCR possible.  Here he was studying the out-flow channels of boiling hot springs. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Weather: One of numerous ninety-degree-plus hot-water springs in the Midway area of Utah. Snow. Nature Spring. (1981)
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Bridgeport, Hot Spring. Jack and Evan Menzel and their friend Luke Sawyer enjoy the hot water with Luke's dad, Chris, who is drinking a beer. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Self Portrait, Peter Menzel, after photographing in the street during the Holi Festival, a Hindu spring festival, also called the Festival of Colors. On the second day, known as Dhulandi, people spend the day throwing colored powder and water at each other. New Delhi, India. New Delhi, India; MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Seal hunter Emil Madsen shouts commands to his dogs as they try to get over a crack in the ice near Cap Hope Village in Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Getting over these cracks can be very dangerous as there is always the very serious worry of falling in. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Barges in the bay, which has 30-foot tides, unload from ships in Iqaluit, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Nearly all supplies come by ship, only during the ice-free spring, summer, and early fall months. Iqaluit, with population of 6,000, is the largest community in Nunavut as well as the capital city. It is located in the southeast part of Baffin Island. Formerly known as Frobisher Bay, it is at the mouth of the bay of that name, overlooking Koojesse Inlet. "Iqaluit" means 'place of many fish'. The image is part of a collection of images and documentation for Hungry Planet 2, a continuation of work done after publication of the book project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • A karaoke lunch of chicken, crabs, soup, and spring rolls in Manila, Philippines. (From a photographic gallery of meals in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 245).
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  • Bars full of young people on spring break,  seen while kayaking on the Nam Song River near Vang Vieng, Laos.
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  • Late spring snowmelt pool in Lassen Volcanic National Park .(Northern California).
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  • Napa Valley, California. Mustard grows in the early spring between the rows of vines as a ground covering for erosion control.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake at dawn with crescent moon. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers on an island in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. (lit with red flash before dawn).
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • In the spring of 1990, the Berlin Wall was a tourist destination before it was completely dismantled. People used hammers and chisels to take pieces for souvenirs. Germany.
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  • A boy whose face is stained with colored dye during the Holi festival, a Hindu spring festival, also called the Festival of Colors. On the second day, known as Dhulandi, people spend the day throwing colored powder and water at each other. New Delhi, India.
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  • Children getting spring water flee when they see white people in Mpigi, Uganda (Africa).
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  • Weather: Spring ice storm coats a fence and weeds in rural Tennessee. March 1974.
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  • James Dewey Watson (born 1928), American biochemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Watson graduated from Chicago University & obtained a PhD in 1950. He abandoned plans to become an ornithologist to work on problems in biochemistry & genetics. In 1951 he went to Cambridge, to work with Francis Crick on solving the problem of the structure of DNA. In 1953 they proposed a double helix structure for DNA, which earned them (with Maurice Wilkins) the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Jones Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, where Watson is Director. It was intended for use as one image. MODEL RELEASED 1989. ADVERTISING/COMMERCIAL USE REQUIRES CLEARANCE.
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  • James Dewey Watson (born 1928), American biochemist and co- discoverer of the structure of DNA. Watson graduated from Chicago University & obtained a PhD in 1950. He abandoned plans to become an ornithologist to work on problems in biochemistry & genetics. In 1951 he went to Cambridge, to work with Francis Crick on solving the problem of the structure of DNA. In 1953 they proposed a double helix structure for DNA, which earned them (with Maurice Wilkins) the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, where Watson was director at the time of this photograph. MODEL RELEASED 1989..Human Genome Project..ADVERTISING/COMMERCIAL USE REQUIRES CLEARANCE.
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  • James Dewey Watson (born 1928), American biochemist & co- discoverer of the structure of DNA. Watson graduated from Chicago University & obtained a PhD in 1950. He abandoned plans to become an ornithologist to work on problems in biochemistry & genetics. In 1951 he went to Cambridge, to work with Francis Crick on solving the problem of the structure of DNA. In 1953 they proposed a double helix structure for DNA, which earned them (with Maurice Wilkins) the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, where Watson was Director at the time of this photograph. MODEL RELEASED 1989. .ADVERTISING/COMMERCIAL USE REQUIRES CLEARANCE.
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  • Portrait of American microbiologist Jonas Edward Salk (born 1914), inventor of the first polio vaccine. In 1949 a method of culturing the poliovirus was discovered, making quantities available for experimentation. Salk began to work on a method of killing the virus in such a way as to make it incapable of causing the disease, but capable of causing the production of antibodies which would be active against the living virus. By 1952 he had prepared a vaccine he dared try on humans. The trials were successful and in 1954 the mass production of the Salk vaccine began. During a lecture at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, 1989.
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Tibetan nomads outside their handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer on the Tibetan Plateau.  The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • A Tibetan nomad walks outside one of the handmade yak wool tents that serves as a home to nomads during spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish and solar panel were provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • A solar panel and satellite dish are seen outside the handmade yak-wool tents Tibetan nomadic herders make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Tibetan nomads at home in their handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Moving like its skittish biological counterpart, Spring Flamingo walks tethered to a boom in a circular course around its home at the MIT Leg Lab, Cambridge, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 8-9.
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  • Fried bamboo larva on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs" says Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Emil Madsen shouts commands to his dogs trying to get over a crack in the ice. Getting over these cracks can be very dangerous as there is always the very serious worry of falling in. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. When the snow crust is hard enough to ensure that the dogs won't break through, they can pull the half-ton weight of the sled for hours on end. On level ground, the animals pull at about the pace of a running human, but the sleds can whip down hills so fast that drivers must step on the brake at the rear of the sled to avoid running over their dogs. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • China's women who hail from the cultural minorities buy and sell in the Menghan Sunday Market in Xishuangbanna, near the Burma border. China is green and leafy in the spring with cucumbers, squash, green onions, long beans, leeks, and bok choy..(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Menghan Sunday Market in Xishuangbanna, China (near the Burma border) is green and leafy in the spring with cucumbers, squash, green onions, long beans, leeks, and bok choy. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Xishuangbanna, China.
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  • Dramatic spring runoff from melting mountain snow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake at sunrise. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake in winter snow. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • A woman leans over the top of the Berlin Wall. Germany. In the spring of 1990, the Berlin Wall was a tourist destination before it was completely dismantled. People used hammers and chisels to take pieces for souvenirs. Germany.
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  • Taking special care around the treacherous cracks in the ice near Cap Hope village in Greenland, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting.   (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in May was 6500 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8.5 inches tall; and 170 pounds. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support.
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  • Tibetan nomads inside a handmade yak-wool tent, which serves as their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The television set in the far right was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • A culinary and aesthetic exhibition (on a banana leaf with tomato roses, scalloped cucumbers and spring onions) of fried bamboo worms, which are actually not worms but the larval stage of a moth that lives in bamboo trees. In Thai the larvae are called rot duan, "express train," because they resemble tiny trains. They taste "like salty crispy shrimp puffs," Peter Menzel. In the Kan Ron Ban Suan Restaurant, Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Man Eating Bugs page s 42,43)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Taking special care about cracks in the ice, Emil Madsen selects the best spot for some on-shore seal hunting. In the spring this can be dangerous because the ice is breaking up and sometimes huge pieces break off and move out to sea. He is carrying a rifle and home-made wooden gun support. Giant iceberg in background  in the open water beyond the sea ice edge.(Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • In the water, pike can accelerate at a rate of eight to twelve g's, as fast as a NASA rocket. To scientists, the speed is inexplicable. In an attempt to understand how the flap of a thin fish tail can push a fish faster than any propeller, John Kumph, then an MIT graduate student, built a robotic version of a chain-pickerel?a species of pike?with a spring-wound fiberglass exoskeleton and a skin made of silicone rubber. Now under further development by iRobot, an MIT-linked company just outside Boston in Somerville, MA, the robo-fish can't yet swim nearly as fast as a real pike, suggesting how much remains to be learned. Photographed at the MIT tow tank, Cambridge, MA. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 108-109.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Snow and frost-laden Hot Springs in winter, Midway, Utah. USA.
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  • Alf Burtleson (center) stands with his partners Dale Wondergem and Jim Curry where they are expanding a wine cave belonging to Flora Springs Winery in Napa Valley, California.
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  • Motorcycle breakdown on Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs. Shot during the Pentax Solar Car Race.
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  • A dead bloated cow on the Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs, southern Australia during the Pentax Solar Car Race, the first international solar-powered car race. The event began in Darwin, Northern Territories on November 1st, 1987 and finished in Adelaide, South Australia completing 1,950 miles. (1987)
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  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas, SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at San Gorgonio Pass, near Palm Springs, California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1986).
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  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
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  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
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  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1987).
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  • Near Area 51, Extraterrestrial Highway 375 sign north of Rachel, near Warm Springs, Nevada.  1999.
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  • USA.rs.312.qxxs.A surprising amount of the lab's work at Robert Full's Poly-PEDAL laboratory at UC Berkeley (California) focuses on cockroaches, because they are exceptionally mobile?for their size, the fastest species on the planet. The fastest roach is a big species known, melodramatically, as the death-head roach, seen here in its "run" at the Poly-PEDAL lab. As the run demonstrates, cockroaches do not have to have secure footing to move quickly. Instead, they use two alternating sets of legs (two on one side, one on the other) as springs, almost bouncing themselves forward. Remarkably, the insect brain doesn't have to see its feet or even be aware of them. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 96.
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  • Bill Haeck of Rock Springs, Wyoming is an avid hunter who relies on his artificial myoelectric arm to continue his hobby after losing his arm in an accident.  Researchers at the University of Utah gave him a myoelectric arm, which he controls by flexing the muscles in his arm that are still intact. Sensors on the inside of the prosthetic arm socket pick up the faint electrical signals from the muscles and amplify them to control the robot arm. In this way, Haeck can do most things as he did before his accident but he often forgets to charge the battery. Seen here target shooting behind his house.
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  • Jean-Pierre Rodot, part owner and chef of La Cafeterie, eats a live witchetty grub out of a bowl of his special witchetty grub soup, Alice Springs, Central Australia. Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths. The large white worms live in tunnels in the ground where they feed on sap from the roots of a species of Acacia, commonly known as Wichetty Bush. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Kitty Miller digs around the roots of a witchetty bush for witchetty grubs, a traditional meal of Australia's aboriginal peoples (all but forgotten in the face of modern supermarket foodstuffs) outside Alice Springs in Central Australia. (Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths). (page 18)
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  • Bessie Liddle reaches for what she calls 'bush coconuts", which are the knobby galls on the branches of the bloodwood tree. These are formed when a light green grub Cystococcus echiniformis burrows under the bark of the tree and secretes an irritating saliva which causes the tree to form a protective gall around the insect in a sort of oyster-and-pearl scenario, north of Alice Springs, Central Australia. (Man Eating Bugs page 25)
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  • Kitty Miller, an aboriginal grandmother from the Australian town of Alice Springs, holds witchetty grubs (Witchetty grubs are the larvae of cossid moths) freshly dug from the roots of the witchetty bush in  Australia's outback. To make this photograph Peter Menzel camped for several days with Kitty and a group of women who went in search of witchetty grubs and honey ants. (page 19)
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Hot springs resort in Teitung, Taiwan.
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  • Miguel Fairbanks mud bathing at a natural hot springs near Gerlach, Nevada. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aerial photograph of the Annenberg Estate in Palm Springs, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of track housing in the southern California desert. Cathedral City, California, between Palm Springs and Palm Desert.
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  • Tourists soak in mud baths at the Indian Springs Mud Baths in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Mr. Fullerton of Fullerton's camels, Northern Territory, Australia. 100km south of Alice Springs. During the Pentax Solar Car Race. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Driving the Stuart Highway north of Alice Springs. Australia. View through windshield with driver on right side.
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  • Hot Springs resort sign reading: Dead End, Patrons Only. Oregon. USA.
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  • Fossil mammoth site. View of the largest collection of Columbian mammoth fossils (Mammuthus columbi) in the Western Hemisphere. Visitors receive a commentary while looking at excavated bones at the Hot Springs Mammoth Site in South Dakota, USA. Here, the fossilized skeletons of at least 43 mammoths lie, buried for 26,000 years. It is thought these animals became trapped in a large sinkhole when they came to drink water. Mammuthus columbi was a giant elephant-like mammal, some 4 meters in height, which roamed temperate parts of North America. It was an important later relative of the woolly mammoth of Europe and Siberia. This fossil site was discovered in 1974. 1992.
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  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
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  • Aerial of Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a water bearing tk (frictionless) so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. (1985).
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  • Aerial of Solar energy installation: Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
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  • UEC Solar. Shot in San Francisco, research facility. California. Solar photovoltaic chip on a human finger. UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a water bearing tk (frictionless) so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. (1985).
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  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
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  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985) .
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  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1988).
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