Aristotle Quote – No Education At All
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle
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Cartoon – Lay-Z Family Recliner
Time Is What You Make of It
Poem – AWAKENED (By John Stanizzi)
AWAKENED November 22, 1963 East Hartford High School 2.02 p.m. Ninth grade English, and just out of Catholic, school, I was not yet adjusted to the outrageous idea of a public school – no uniforms, and teachers who were men, men in street clothes, not dressed in black with stiff white collars and faces of […]
Read moreErma Bombeck Quote – Seize The Moment
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck
Read morePoem – America Wants to Know (By Donal Mahoney)
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse. Maybe the FBI can put the doghouse out on the lawn. He shouldn’t be a problem there. Only men jump over the fence. Author Bio: Donal Mahoney lives in […]
Read moreThis 21-Year Old is Cleaning Up Our Oceans
Boyan Slat (born 27 July 1994) is a Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and aerospace engineering student who works on methods of cleaning plastic waste from the oceans. He designed a passive system for concentrating and catching plastic debris driven by ocean currents. This won a prize for Best Technical Design at Delft University of Technology and he has established a […]
Read moreCharlie Chaplin Quote – To Truly Laugh
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.” – Charlie Chaplin
Read moreHow Pot Affects Driving
Reduced awareness Brain imaging shows that it’s harder for people who are high to focus on several things at once, such as a changing stoplight, an approaching bicycle and a car signaling a turn. Hallucinations Research is sparse, but pot-related cases can happen and are an “underappreciated” threat on the road. Slower decisions Being high can impair users’ executive function and problem-solving […]
Read moreNew cli-fi novel pits an at-risk blue whale against Antarctic collapse
As a new generation of writers confronts global warming, a new book genre has emerged: “climate fiction”, or “cli-fi”. Russell: “In my secret heart, I hope that all these books that are now talking about climate change will help to move public opinion.” That’s Canadian novelist Craig Russell. In his recent book, Fragment, a shockwave sends a massive Antarctic ice […]
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