Cartoon – The Reagan Way
Author: Antarctica Journal
Cartoon – Scrabble With Santa
Plate tectonics thanks to plumes?
“Knowing what a chicken looks like and what all the chickens before it looked like doesn’t help us to understand the egg,” says Taras Gerya. The ETH Professor of Geophysics uses this metaphor to address plate tectonics and the early history of the Earth. The Earth’s lithosphere is divided into several plates that are in constant motion, and today’s geologists […]
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Will Ghana’s Local Crops Die Out?
Ghana is being pressured to sell out it’s global agribusiness. The U.S. and the global seed industry are trying to strong-arm Ghana into adopting the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, known as UPOV. The treaty confers intellectual property rights on huge seed companies such as Monsanto and locks farmers into a limited selection of […]
Read moreStairway to heaven
A ladder might be installed near the peak of Mount Everest. Authorities in Nepal say the ladder would provide a shortcut over a steep cliff, and thus ease congestion near the 29,035-foot-high summit of the world’s tallest mountain.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Quote – I Can Take The Next Thing That Comes Along
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Read moreCoco Chanel Quote – Trying To Look Young
“Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young.” – Coco Chanel
Read moreJohann Wolfgang – Always Be A Human
“One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human” – Johann Wolfgang
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