Antarctica Journal, Author at Antarctica Journal

For the past two years, Christian McPhilamy, 8, has put up with a lot of teasing over his long blond locks. But nothing could discourage the Florida boy from growing his hair to help other kids who have lost theirs. McPhilamy started his mission at age 6 after seeing an ad for a children’s hospital. When his hair recently reached […]

Facts & Trends

Poem – Feral (By Allison Grayhurst)

May 10, 2026 Antarctica Journal

Feral I bend in mourning bending to the loss of someone so familiar – your nurture-needing eyes and a temperament of molten lava whose tone was innocent and unrefined. I see you now in the doorway, flat and tensing but never moving, then at ease with me as a soft sigh overcomes you. Born in a tight spot […]

Poetry

National Geographic Adds New Ocean To World Map

May 10, 2026 Antarctica Journal

National Geographic adds 5th ocean to world map

The National Geographic Society has joined scientists from around the world in adding a fifth named ocean to the world map even though the idea is still not accepted by all countries. For World Oceans Day on Tuesday, the society announced it is recognizing the Southern Ocean, which circles Antarctica up to a latitude of 60 degrees South. It joins […]

Local News

Our sun’s hotter sister

May 10, 2026 Antarctica Journal

Stars are not born alone. Rather, they emerge from clouds of gas and dust in groups of up to 10,000, then slowly scatter through space. For the first time, astronomers have identified a star that came from the same solar nursery as our sun, some 4.5 billion years ago. This stellar relative—located 110 light-years away in the constellation Hercules—is hotter […]

John Barrymore Quote – Happiness

May 10, 2026 Antarctica Journal

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” ― John Barrymore

Cartoon – Break Something

May 10, 2026 Antarctica Journal

Humor

Poem – Inward Images (By Robert Beveridge)

May 10, 2026 Antarctica Journal

Inward Images Your hair hangs thick and tangled over the soft cheek its ridge of bone smoothed by years of smiles the blonde ends brush your nose, glis- ten with perspiration, cover the curve of half your lips so set, so strident determined in desire one liquid green eye imparts immediacy infects me with sexiness brazen stare […]