Cold-blooded animals like lizards, insects and fish have a preferred body temperature range at which they hunt, eat, move quickly and reproduce. Fear that a […]
News From Above
Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity, Science Says
Why do people complain? Not to torture others with their negativity, surely. When most of us indulge in a bit of a moan, the idea […]
Facts & Trends
Deaths In Jail
About a dozen inmates die behind bars each day, or about 4,400 jail and prison inmates each year. In jails, suicide is the leading cause […]
Soul Fountain: Featured
Poem – Hazardous Voyage (By Gary Beck)
Aspirations gone, little remains. Daily routine the dwindling hope things will get better. Aging, illness, terrorism, tainting tomorrows, another vessel lost on uncharted seas. […]
Ideas
Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes – “waldo, why are you not here?”
Henry Thoreau was languishing in jail after he had refused to pay the Massachusetts poll tax in 1843 [to protest the Mexican-American War], Ralph Waldo […]