Cartoon – Mob Landscapers
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote – Enemy Into A Friend
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read moreMississippi Abolishes Slavery – 148 Years Late
Jackson, Miss. Belated ratification: Mississippi officially ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery—148 years late. The approval came after University of Mississippi medical professor Dr. Ranjan Batra watched the Oscar-nominated film Lincoln, and began looking into whether the state had ever endorsed the end of slavery. Batra discovered that by December 1865 the measure had been ratified by the three fourths […]
Read moreBuddha Quote – Holding Anger Is Like Grasping A Hot Coal
“Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha
Read moreCartoon – The Evolution Good Samaritanism
Scientists think octopuses ‘might be aliens’ after DNA study
Researchers have discovered a new map of the octopus genome that is so strange that it could actually be an “alien”. The first whole cephalopod gene sequence shows a striking level of complexity with 33,000 protein-coding genes identified – more than in a human. Not only that, the octopus DNA is highly rearranged – like cards shuffled and reshuffled in […]
Read morePoem – DEAR JOHN (By Frank De Canio)
Dear John (the Sophie to Der Rosenkavalier) By Frank De Canio Just like the Marschallin had been resigned to cede her lover to the ingénue to whom his heart would later be inclined, so Marietta’s mistress bade adieu to her so that her “Quinquin” could pursue no younger woman but a different sex than formerly she’d been accustomed to. Perhaps […]
Read moreCartoon – Stairway to Inconvenience
Joseph Brodsky Quote – Not Reading Them
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Joseph Brodsky
Read moreWhy you can’t resist scratching an itch
Feeling itchy from a sunburn, a bug bite or some other skin irritation is miserable, but the pleasure you get from scratching it isn’t just the absence of pain. It feels legitimately good to scratch, and the reason is fascinating. A 2008 study at Wake Forest University hooked people up to a MRI scanner and monitored brain activity when they […]
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