Cartoon – Effects of Divorce on Children
Author: Antarctica Journal
Why insomnia makes you eat
The less sleep you get, the more likely you are to be overweight. Now, The New York Times reports, scientists have discovered one reason why: Sleep loss causes changes in the brain that make you crave high-calorie foods and weakens your willpower to resist them. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, scanned the brains of volunteers while they looked […]
Read moreMavis Gallant quote – now that he was rich
“Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant anymore, but simply eccentric.” – Mavis Gallant
Read morePoem – Prophylactic Measures (By Frank De Canio)
Prophylactic Measures Like any doctor versed in patient care, the campus carry, gun rights advocate had listened to the PhD’s despair. For students now bear guns, while poised to get an education in philosophy. She heard with empathy the gal’s concern that arguing could spell catastrophe, should prickly issues make the passions churn in those who have another point of […]
Read moreChanning Pollock Quote – Happiness Is A Way Station
“Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.” – Channing Pollock
Read moreCartoon – Technology Will Save You
Albert Camus Quote – A Chance To Be Better
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” – Albert Camus
Read moreHumans’ indelible mark on new era
Geologists are convinced that humans have left a mark upon the planet that will detectable millions of years from now. Long after human civilization has perished, there could be a stratum of fossilized rock and a geological time zone that says: “We were here.” So there is a case for calling the present epoch “the Anthropocene” − probably dating from […]
Read moreMignon McLaughlin Quote – The Past Is Strapped To Our Backs
“The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.” – Mignon McLaughlin
Read moreSouth Sudanese Army Accused Of Rape
Juba, South Sudan Army rapes, murders: South Sudanese soldiers have been gang raping young girls and then burning them alive, according to a new United Nations report. The army is trying to terrify the entire civilian population into fleeing rebel-held areas so that the rebels will have no support base. One survivor described how he hid in a river when […]
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