Cartoon – Home Schooling
Author: Antarctica Journal
George Bernard Shaw Quote – Progress Is Impossible Without Change
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
Read moreWhen going ‘green’ makes people sick
When communities like San Francisco and Seattle began banning plastic bags, said Ramesh Ponnuru, it seemed like a public-spirited thing to do. But’ benign-seeming laws often have unintended consequences— and the plastic-bag ban is now producing a sickening result. The reusable shopping bags that people now use to bring groceries home turn out to be breeding grounds for bacteria carried […]
Read moreUnruly Passengers
Reported incidents of unruly passenger behavior on airplanes soared from 339 in 2007 to 8,217 in 2013.
Read moreThe Cost of Dementia
As the population ages and lives longer, dementia has become one of the country’s most expensive medical conditions, with $109 billion in direct medical costs in 2010, a new RAND study found. The medical cost of dementia exceeds that of both heart disease, at $102 billion, and cancer, at $72 billion.
Read moreEleanor Roosevelt Quote – Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Read moreAldous Huxley Quote – Experience
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
Read moreCartoon – Personal Loans
Cartoon – Taking It With You
Executions in Saudi Arabia
88: Number of executions carried out in Saudi Arabia so far this year, already surpassing the total number in 2014; Amnesty International called the increase under Saudi’s new King Salman a “macabre spike”.
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