Cartoon – A Healthy Dose of Counter-productivity
Author: Antarctica Journal
Parker J. Palmer Quote – Stand In The Gap For The Long Haul
“No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap for the long haul, and be prepared to die without having achieved our goals.” – Parker J. Palmer
Read moreOutsourcing the care of our elderly
Germans are sending their aging parents abroad, said Anette Dowideit. With pensions flat and nursing costs rising, families often can’t afford to put Grandma in an elder-care program close to home. So over the past decade, they have turned to countries where such services are much cheaper— mostly in former Eastern bloc states like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and […]
Read moreScientist Injects Himself With ‘Eternal Life’ Bacteria
Anatoli Brouchkov, a scientist whose curiosity and thirst for knowledge drove him to go beyond the standard protocol of his experimentation by injecting himself with an ancient “Eternal Life” bacteria. In 2009, a 3.5-million-year-old bacteria strain called Bacillus F was discovered deep in the permafrost of Siberia’s Sakha Republic. Scientists later found that mice and fruit flies exposed to the bacteria seemed to […]
Read moreFriedrich Nietzsche Quote – Interpretation
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Read moreFran Lebowitz Quote – As A Teenager
“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” – Fran Lebowitz
Read moreWillard Gaylin Quote – Expressing Anger
“Expressing anger is a form of public littering.” – Willard Gaylin
Read moreCartoon – Onion Farmer Of The Year
Cartoon – Extreme Pie In the Face
Voyager 1 Escaping Our Solar System
On the 35th anniversary of its launch, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is close to becoming the first man-made object to escape our solar system. The spacecraft—run by a 1977 computer 100,000 times less powerful than an iPod Nano—is currently 11.3 billion miles away. In 2004, Voyager 1 entered the turbulent boundary zone beyond Pluto, where solar winds encounter plasma pushing […]
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