Cartoon – Nerds In The Sandbox
Author: Antarctica Journal
Cartoon – Beached
Ancient Mayan Pyramids Bulldozed
Nohmul, Belize A Belizean construction company has bulldozed one of the country’s largest ancient Mayan pyramids. The 2,300-year-old Nohmul mound was dug out and crushed into gravel for use in road building. “It’s like being punched in the stomach, it’s just so horrendous,” said Jaime Awe, the head of Belize’s Institute of Archaeology. “Why can’t these people just go and […]
Read moreEdgar Allan Poe Quote –
“The pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” – Edgar Allan Poe
Read moreThe mystery of dark matter is solved
THE UNIVERSE IS A LOT OF THINGS, BUT EASY TO understand isn’t one of them. Take the fact that more than 80% of its mass is missing. Galaxies spin so fast, they would fly apart if the gravity of some unseen mass weren’t keeping them intact, sur rounding them like a glass paperweight encasing a butterfly. Cosmologists have been trying […]
Read moreCartoon – How To Meet People Seminar
Poem – Noblesse Oblige (By Frank De Canio)
Noblesse Oblige – By Frank De Canio It isn’t strange that some sweet girl who’s charmed a male combatant in the sexes’ war should, seeing that her former foe’s disarmed by awe, forgo hostilities she swore. For, after all, a man thus smitten cedes his prowess to exigencies of love. His heart is focused on romantic deeds and gallantry instead […]
Read moreShakespeare’s Twelfth Night – Greatness
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: “Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
Read moreCartoon – What do YOU have faith in
Simone Weil Quote – Humility is attentive patience
“Humility is attentive patience.” – Simone Weil
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