Every day, for almost 7,000 days, starting in 1979, Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid. In 1997 he died, and his friends and family gathered together the photos and made them into an exhibit. This is some pretty awesome stuff. The real website just recently got huge hits on it causing it to shut down, but here is a blog with some sample photos and a summary of this man's life. I will update the po... read full post picked by muppetmaker 2 years ago

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is embarking on a head count of teachers in the Northern region as part of efforts to clean the bloated pay roll.
The exercise has apparently created panic among teachers the region. picked by rambler 5 months ago

"President ... Obama's visit to Ghana ... has really placed this country in its rightful place among the comity of nations."
but also, there was quite a bit of "..botched protocol..". picked by rambler 5 months ago

The Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP) is the largest ex situ conservation project ever conceived. Its partners will have banked seed from 10% of the world's wild plant species by the end of the decade. These will not be just any plants, but will include the rarest, most threatened and most useful species known to man... picked by bingo 8 months ago

A hoard of dinosaur bones has been discovered at the site of a planned desalination plant meant to deliver Australia's second biggest city from drought, forcing a re-think of the A$3 billion ($2.7 billion) project. The fossilised bones, estimated to be 115 million years old and belonging to dinosaurs and ancient marine reptiles, were found on a windswept beach in front of the planned project at Po... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

World Beach Project is a global art project open to anybody, anywhere, building on the experience many of us have had on holiday of making patterns on beaches and shorelines. picked by cb__ 3 months ago

Ghana columnist tries to make a connection between Switzerland's infamous policy of turning a blind eye to nefarious banking to some of the problems facing Africa. picked by bernardblack 3 months ago

Scientists exploring one of the largest remaining blocks of tropical forest in Western Africa discovered significant populations of new, rare and threatened species underscoring the area’s high biological diversity and value. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Images of Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Joseph Biden printed with liquid photo emulsion on individual slices of American Cheese. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

This is a brilliant gallery of some of the most emotional and intense pictures from Reuters throughout 2005.
Really well presented too.

Be careful at work. picked by Milkshake 3 years ago

Cool is about all I can say about this. picked by Mershaullk 3 years ago

A photo album created by an SS officer stationed at Auschwitz has been donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The unique album shows the life and activities of officers at the camp. Compare those officers to the prisoners. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Lilo recently posted an article about whether or not Spartans killed deformed children. This is interesting conjecture, but ultimately changes nothing. In Ghana, in the present day however, children who are born with deformity are usually killed with a herbal potion. AfriKids is a charity that is attempting to bring this practice to an end. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

A collection of photographic portraits of North American and European look-alikes. Each photo features two look-alikes, who are not related, side by side. picked by yoornotme 3 years ago

Just for the hell of it - a satellite image mosaic of the country I'm currently living and working in. Some brief descriptions in the comments below. picked by rambler 2 years ago

UK firm Tullow Oil has announced the discovery of 600 million barrels of light oil offshore from Ghana.
Exciting times for this country, of course. Lots of time and money still needs to flow before we'll see the actual benefits, though. And my main concern would be to try and avoid the regional strife and environmental problems encountered in countries like Nigeria. picked by rambler 2 years ago