Cartoon – When Doctors Take Things Too Literally
Author: Antarctica Journal
To succeed in life, you need three things
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.”
Read morePoem – MY WORDS (By Elaine Nadal)
MY WORDS – By Elaine Nadal Inadequate fragments embedded with Ay, No puede ser, Sí se puede, Pura vida lacking punctuation misunderstood tirelessly running on and on syncopating along the way Lo tengo to’ pensao Pues a veces sometimes spontaneous problem-solving compassionate “Bendito, don’t you worry cariño.” creative making my own spice an unconventional lexicon embedded with made-up words feel […]
Read moreCould we talk with whales?
Human-like sounds made by a captive beluga whale suggest that cetaceans could learn to mimic our voices, and perhaps even converse with us. Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation first noticed in the 1980s that one of their whales was attempting to copy the speech patterns of his handlers and they began recording his human-like vocalizations. Recently, they analyzed […]
Read moreEarl Weaver Quote – It’s What You Learn
“It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – Earl Weaver
Read morePlanet Has More Trees
The last study showed that the world has about 3 trillion trees. That is over the estimate of 400 billion in previous studies. Researchers did a count by actually going out and physically counting trees, using satellite imagery, ground survey, and national forest inventories. Even though we have lost trees from fires, drought, and insect outbreaks there are still more […]
Read moreCartoon – Convention for the Self Centered
Cartoon – Life Never Changes
A super-massive black hole is shooting X-rays across galaxies
Over 15 years of observational data collected by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Australia Telescope Compact Array have given us a composite image of a tremendous cosmic blast. The image depicts an x-ray beam (blue) casts away from the black hole sitting at the center of Pictor A, a galaxy located 500 million light years from Earth. Other prominent […]
Read morePalladas Quote – Life’s a Stage
“Our life’s a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.” – Palladas
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