Mark Twain Quote – We Are All Stupid
“We are all stupid, just on different subjects.” – Mark Twain
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Cheap Food And Obesity
Research has concluded the main cause of America’s obesity epidemic is that food has become too cheap and easy to get. The findings challenge conventional wisdom about obesity in the U.S., shifting the focus from sedentary lifestyles to the economics of eating. “It isn’t just the fact that we may be eating more high-calorie food, but we are eating more […]
Read moreElvia Alvarado Quote – I’ll Be There To Help You
“I don’t think that God says, “Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine.” No. For me God says, “Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I’ll be there to help you.” – Elvia Alvarado
Read moreCraig Russell, Canadian Novelist Predicts Arctic Event
In 2016, a Canadian novelist, Craig Russell — who is also a lawyer and a theater director in Manitoba — wrote an environmental cli-fi thriller titled “Fragment” about a major calving event along the ice shelf of Antarctica. The Yale Climate Connections website recently recommended the novel, published by Thistledown Press as a good summer read. Ironically, scientists in Antarctica are […]
Read moreNASA Highlights Drought, Mars, Arctic Warming at Science Conference
Long ago, in the largest canyon system in our solar system, vibrations from “marsquakes” shook soft sediments that had accumulated in Martian lakes. The shaken sediments formed features that now appear as a series of low hills apparent in a geological map based on NASA images. The map was released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This map of […]
Read moreRay Bradbury Quote – How To Accept Rejection
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” – Ray Bradbury
Read moreFISH MIGRATION
Fish flee existing habitats in search of better ones. Atlantic sea bass, for example, are migrating north to cooler waters—but the heat will chase them there.
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William Barclay Quote – Two Great Days In Life
“There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.” – William Barclay
Read moreHow Russians differ from Ukrainians
Kiev is putting Moscow to shame, said Yulia Latynina. Even after riot police beat up protesters last week, 1 million Ukrainians took to the squares to protest their president’s foreign policy. By contrast, Moscow, a city four times as large, could only muster 100,000 people at the peak of the December 2011 protests against fraudulent elections. What makes us different […]
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