cool website that was interesting on many different topics as well as snowgoggles

Arend, C. Alaskan Snow Goggles. Retrieved November 11, 2010, from http://images.livescience.com/imageoftheday/ria-080213.html
in this website they have a contest where they chose a picture every day to praise and gloat over. this picture was taken in 1969. but then there are links up at the top of the page where you can look over other scientific and historical topics. this website produces a magazine that is popular in the science community.

What if you were an ancient pair of snow goggles

I have once imagined being a pair of snow goggles and trying to picture floating along the wind as a seed then growing into a tall tree. then being chopped down and created to a work of art and a piece of essential equipment for hunting and surviving the harsh climate of the arctic. after that laying dormant before being collected by a man from the Smithsonian museum. after that just sitting on some shelf in the basement for hundreds of years. the almost returning home in Alaska.

One Very Interesting Article for Native American Artifacts

Kassis, K. Archive for the 'North American Tribes/Cultures' Category. Retrieved November 29, 2010, from http://ethnology.wordpress.com/category/north-american-tribescultures/
This website is a list of many different kinds of artifacts from the Native American cultures. i used it mainly for the snow goggles, but i found a lot of the information and videos very interesting. the have live whale hunting videos as well as some blanket making and archeologist dig sites. the website also has at least one picture of every artifact that is mentioned in this article.

Changing times and new places for snow goggles.

People have taken this design and improved it to the modern snow goggles that we see now. Now they often look like pieces of shadowed glass to cut the glare from the light. NASA has taken the idea of little slits in the eyes and adapted them to help the astronauts in space. since these people have taken a very simple and extremely important design and made them modern, we tend to loose our appreciation for the older and ancient technologies that our ancestors have developed.

Snow Goggles in Alaska

this is a picture of an older Inuit person wearing his pair of snow goggles. this man is from Canada. even though the oldest pair of snow goglgles has been dated for 2000 years ago. the expansion from the Bering Sea cultures to the Canadian and Northern Alaskan people has been dated at 800 years ago.

This is the website about the history of other types of sun goggles/glasses.

Drewry, R. (2007) History of Eye Glasses. Retrieved November 29, 2010, from http://www.teagleoptometry.com/history.htm

this web site is about the history of eye glasses from B.C.E. till today. The author of the web page is an optometrist and has studied the topic for a while. He goes from the water filled stones in the midievil ages till the contact lenses that a lot of people are wearing now. the information includes a few pictures as well as information on the emerald sunglasses which i found use full.

Do other places use something similar?

alot of cultures have some form of sunprotection. the Alaska Natives used snowgoggles as did many of the northern cultures of othe world. the different culture's snowgoggles look differently based on the function, culture, and time period. then some of the cultures that were farther couth like parts of china where an emporer used smoked glass to protect his eyes from the sun. then a man in Rome who used to use emerald peices to shield his eyes from the sun while he was watching gladiators.