Cartoon – Subscription of Biblical Proportion
Author: Antarctica Journal
Waterboy with Down Syndrome Scores Touchdown
A special-needs student scored a touchdown with his high school football team last month, after the team’s coach put him in for the final play of the game. Noah VanVooren, who has Down syndrome, usually acts as a manager for the Little Chute High School team in Wisconsin. But Little Chute and rival Clintonville invited him to take the field […]
Read moreHailstone – Lack of hail causes concern
What is hail or a hailstone? Hail is a form of precipitation that occurs when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere where they freeze into balls of ice. Hail can damage aircraft, homes and cars, and can be deadly to livestock and people. How does hail form? Hailstones grow by colliding with supercooled […]
Read moreRobert Henri Quote – Go On Anyway
“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.” – Robert Henri
Read moreJohn A. Wheeler Quote – It Hasn’t Been Much Of A Day
“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” – John A. Wheeler
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Cartoon – Depression
W. Somerset Maugham Quote – Old Age Is…
“When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.” – W. Somerset Maugham
Read moreBirth Control May Be Linked To Depression
A study in JAMA Psychiatry found that women using hormonal birth control had an increased risk of receiving treatment for depression. Those on progestin-only pills or IUD’s were 34% more likely, respectively, to begin using antidepressants than women not on birth control.
Read moreG.K. Chesterton Quote – Miss The Train Before
“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.” – G.K. Chesterton
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