Sunday 18 January 2015

Brazils belo monte dam

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/16/belo-monte-brazil-tribes-living-in-shadow-megadam

Indians from the Munduruku, Juruna, Kayapo, Xipaya, Kuruaya, Asurini, Parakana, and Arara tribes in Tapajos and Teles Pires river basins face a riot police officer as they invade the main construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam site in protest against the dam's construction, in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in Para State, May 2, 2013.

Aerial view of the Belo Monte Dam construction site. Belo Monte is a controversial hydropower plant that is being built in the Xingu River, one of the largest rivers in the Amazon basin.

North Korea

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/jan/15/-sp-pyongyang-north-korea-in-pictures

Waitresses on board a restaurant boat in Pyongyang, North Korea, pour beer for customers


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/15/-sp-pyongyang-north-korea-kim-jong-un

videos and a good article on the capital city

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/north-korea-defector-jang-jin-sung-pyongyang-book-dear-leader  NK is not opening up

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/north-korea-fashion-heels

A musician from a North Korean military band during the opening ceremony of a new dock at the port of Rajin in July.
NK relaxes tight dress codes?

Google's market share falling.....

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/18/google-search-way-avoid-microsoft-fate

Google's string of acquisitions, including robot maker Boston Dynamics, demonstrate its desire to fi

Google's market share has fallen

negatives of consumerism- the loss of East London

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/18/losing-london-we-love-eva-wiseman

ONE Commercial street

disappearing languages



http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/

The enduring voices campaign by National geographic.

https://www.youtube.com/user/EnduringVoices

Should tourists be banned from Antarctica?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30709924

Iceberg

Why do some people dislike hearing foreign languages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30708247

A man with his hand to his ear

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22607506

Beret wearers and the Eiffel Tower


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20332763

Customers sit at computer terminals in a Philippines internet cafe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29804445

Mary Yatkin - John Davies's wife

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21242667

Manx dictionary, photo courtesy of Rhisiart Hinck/Flickr