Love is a springtime plant….
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with it’s hope, even the ruins to which it clings. – Gustav Flaubert
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Starburst galaxy sheds light on longstanding cosmic mystery
Scientists from the University of Delaware’s Bartol Research Institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy have discovered very-high-energy gamma rays in the Cigar Galaxy (M82), a bright galaxy filled with exploding stars 12 million light years from Earth. The gamma rays observed by the team have energies more than a trillion times higher than the energy of visible light […]
Read morePoem – The Fern (By DS Maolalai)
The Fern these are days; people with nothing to do doing nothing. people with things to do doing those things. the sun out, loud and shining, like a child screaming at a dropped ice-cream, but weak enough to freeze you in a shadow. people sometimes in houses touching their hands against the clock. staring at computers. or older, looking […]
Read moreGhostly Particles from Outer Space Detected in Antarctica
Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way. Finding these cosmic neutrinos not only confirms their existence but also sheds light on the origins of cosmic rays, the researchers said. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is made up of 86 shafts dug 8,000 feet […]
Read moreJackie Robinson Quote – Impact On Other Lives
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Jackie Robinson
Read morePoem – BLACK MADONNA (By Bob Trabold)
BLACK MADONNA Altoetting, Germany Robert Trabold Dark chapel pierced by candle light. Silver – gold glittering! Stately candles on the alter add solemnity. Many yellow roses blend with gold – silver. In the middle, small dark statue – woman with a child dressed in black – gold holding a golden rose. Silence reigns in the chapel. Many people […]
Read morePoem – Room Of Silence (By Amy Hrynchuk)
Room Of Silence Nine in one little room, not making a sound. One working busily behind her desk. Two read books while one reads a magazine, while on writes in notebook. A leg shakes nervously across the room, while two rock beside him. Another two are drifting off to sleep. All wait to hear a name called by the […]
Read moreCharles Caleb Colton quote – Men will wrangle for religion
“Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.” – Charles Caleb Colton
Read morePoem – Memorial (By Melissa R. Mendelson)
Atrocious moments in time paint history in red, and a thousand words can’t silence a million tears shed. Beautiful faces and gentle hands disappear from lives led, and golden grains of love slip from hearts bled from icy teardrops of loss, chasing pain and dread. But never would they be forgotten for all they dreamt and said, and always […]
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