Cartoon So Little Time

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read moreShould we be focusing on the future and not exclusively on the past to find life on Mars? Some microbes have been found in the Atacama Desert in Chile that have been dormant when the area is dry and come to life when it rains. It only rains there about a quarter of an inch a year which makes the […]
Read more“What more can we ask than to never know what to expect.” – Paul Violi
Read more“Our task is to become fluent with the life we’re leading” – John Cage
Read more“Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.” – Joe Frazier
Read more“How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?” – R. A. Salvatore
Read moreChangchun, China The senseless killing of an infant has plunged China’s social media sites into another round of soul-searching. The baby was in a car stolen outside a grocery in northeastern China, and the carjacker admitted to strangling and burying the child. Chinese Internet users contrasted the story with a similar incident in New York City last month, in which […]
Read moreThe evidence for a new geological epoch which marks the impact of human activity on Earth is now overwhelming according to a recent paper by an international group of geo-scientists. The Anthropocene, which is argued to start in the mid-20th Century, is marked by the spread of materials such as aluminum, concrete, plastic, fly ash and fallout from nuclear testing […]
Read more“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” – Dorothy Thompson
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