We Are Descendants of The Ice Age

We are descendants of the ice age.
Periods of glaciation have extended the whole of

human existence for the past 2 million years. The rapid melting of the continental glaciers
at the end of the last ice age spurred one of the most dramatic climate changes in the
history of the planet. During this interglacial time, people caught up in a cataclysm of
human accomplishment, including the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.
Over the past few thousands years, the Earth’s climate has been extraordinarily beneficial,
and humans have been prospered exceedingly well under a benign atmosphere.
Ice ages have dramatically affected life on Earth mostly from the very beginning. It is even
possible that life itself significantly changed the climate. All living organisms pull carbon
dioxide out of the atmosphere and eventually store it in sedimentary rocks within the
Earth’s crust. If too much carbon dioxide is lost, too much heat escapes out into the
atmosphere, thus causes the Earth to cool enough for glacial ice to spread across the land.
In general the reduction of the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been
equalized by input of carbon dioxide from such events as volcanic eruptions. Man,
however, is upsetting the equation by burning fossil fuels and destroying tropical rain
forests, allof which release stored carbon dioxide. This energizes the greenhouse effect and
causes the Earth to warm. If the warming is significantly enough, the polar ice caps
eventually melt. The polar ice caps drive the atmospheric and oceanic circulation systems.
Should the ice caps melt, warm tropical waters could circle around the globe and make
this a very warm, inhospitable planet.
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It came as something as a surprise in the fashion industry when Julien MacDonald, the
well-known dress designer, teamed along with the company Intel to produce a computer
bag. MacDonald made his name creating the type of dresses that major celebrities like to
see wearing at high-profile events such as film premiers and awards ceremonies.
The computer bag, however, was not designed on such occasions in mind. Rather, it was
created for the modern woman who relies on technology but hopes to look more chic than
geek. MacDonald first got inspiration for the bag when he caught sight of female friends
and colleagues at fashion shows, furiously typed away on their laptops. He couldn't help
noticing, yet that the rather unstylish carrying cases needed to transport the machines
tended to get pushed out of sight under their chairs. It was as if the women had been
somehow ashamed of them. MacDonald set out to change all that.
The challenge facing the designer was how to combine a 'must-have' handbag from the
stylistic point of view, with the functionality required to protect expensive computer
equipments. In shocking fuchsia pink, the resulting multi-pocketed 'Nappa' bag certainly
lacked nothing of MacDonald's signature style.
It was enough stylish to grace the front row of any fashion show. And even those finding
such a particular shade of pink a little scary were catered for ;
MacDonald also produced versions in simply plain black and minimalist white.
Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed

together. At the turn of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with
photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner feature in every history of
photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and the photographer Harold
Edgerton extended the limits of photographic technology with his study of a drop of milk
hitting the surface of a dish. Another advance was the development of miniature cameras
in the late 1920s, that made it possible for sports photographers to put their cumbersome
cameras behind.
The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport.

Paradoxically, it was having benefit to still photographers. People who watched a sport
event on TV, with all their movement and action, valued the still image as a reminder of
the game.
Looking back, we can see how radically sports photography has changed. Early sports
photographers were so interested in the stories behind the sport as in the sport itself.
Contemporary sports photography emphasizes the glamour of sport, the colour and the
action. But the best sports photographers today do more than just simply tell the story of
the event, or take a record of it. They capture in a single dramatic moment the real
emotions of the participants emotions with which people looking at the photographs can
identify

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We are descendants of the ice age.

Periods of glaciation have extended the whole of

Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed

The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport.

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