High School Dropouts
Portion of high-school dropouts who say they left school to work: 1/4 Portion of those dropouts who earn less than $10,000 per year: 3/5
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Franz Kafka Quote – Frozen Sea Within Us
“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.” – Franz Kafka
Read morePlate 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 […]
Read moreClimate change stirred ancient political turmoil
Climate change may have helped to alter the course of history. A period of extreme and unprecedented cooling in the northern hemisphere 1,500 years ago may have reduced the eastern Roman empire, set the stage for a famine and a devastating pandemic that killed millions, and favored the rise of the Islamic forces that created the Arab empire. The so-called Little […]
Read morePoem – Respitoration (By David Russell)
Respitoration Can there still be irrigation Now the stem’s closed, dry? Can there still be imagination – When the bottom’s gone awry – When everyone can see Through every ancient icon? In spite of everything, maybe – When light floods all opacity, As every block of granite, Basalt, obsidian Melts into a stained-glass window; When experience […]
Read moreSir Winston Churchill Quote – Courage To Continue
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Sir Winston Churchill
Read moreBrian Tracy Quote – The Happiest People
“The happiest people in the world are those who accept total responsibility for every part of their life.” – Brian Tracy
Read moreThich Nhat Hanh Quote – Hope Is Important
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
Read moreHeller Keller Quote – Stand For Something
“You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” – Hellen Keller
Read moreSophocles Quote – One Word Frees Us
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.” – Sophocles
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