Cartoon – Caught In the Act
Author: Antarctica Journal
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Quote – The Sign Of A Good Marriage
“The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.” – Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Read morePlacebo For Parkinson’s Disease
Factor by which a placebo for Parkinson’s disease is more effective when the patient is told it costs $1,500 rather than $100: 2
Read moreKalle Lasn Quote – Unencumbered By History
“A few people start breaking their old patterns, embracing what they love (and in the process discovering what they hate), daydreaming, questioning, rebelling. What happens naturally then, according to the revolutionary past, is a groundswell of support for this new way of being, with more and more people empowered to perform new gestures ‘unencumbered by history.’” – Kalle Lasn
Read moreQuote – Tony Robbins on Setting Goals
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” Tony Robbins
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Poem – Strangers Waiting For 2 Different Trains (By Frank De Canio)
Strangers Waiting For 2 Different Trains We both spent hours waiting on the line for a ticket to Shakespeare in the Park. I saw her on the blades of grass, supine while I stood up behind her on a lark I’d talk to her. “What’s the play about,” she asked, before I knelt on down beside her to explain, ‘The […]
Read morePhilippa Carr Quote – No Say In Making War
“It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.” – Philippa Carr
Read moreHundreds of Civilians Massacred In South Sudan
Bentiu, South Sudan Horrific massacre: Rebels have massacred hundreds of civilians in the South Sudanese city of Bentiu in the worst atrocity of the young country’s civil war. Bodies, including those of children and old people, were piled in heaps in a mosque, a church, and other buildings all over town. The ethnic Nuer rebels killed all non-Nuer they found, […]
Read moreLouis-Ferdinand Céline Quote – All Great Innovation Is Built On Rejection
“All great innovation is built on rejection.” – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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