The History of Antarctic Exploration
“And do you feel the fire when the flame gets hot? Are you living every day like it’s the last you got? Will you step aside when it all falls down, And watch it burn away? Have a little faith when the walls cave in, Pray for strength to fly against the wind. Will you walk away when the fire […]
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“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” – Ernest Hemingway
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“Christ has made you his ambassadors, the primary evangelizers of your contemporaries.” – Pope Francis
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Global climate envoys agreed a landmark accord on Saturday, setting the course for a “historic” transformation of the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming. At the tail end of the hottest year on record and after four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperiled island […]
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“Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.” – Stephen Levine
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Scientists have concluded for the last decade that more-acidic seas have been harming coral, making it more difficult for coral reefs to grow or regenerate themselves. Conducting an experiment over the course of 22 days, scientists flooded Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with an antacid. They found that by lowering the water’s acidity, it caused the coral to grow. Research has […]
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Space Capsule Volunteer The final pull of severance will magnify you The downward controls make you equal to the general gravitation You are higher than the air, and so you leave, You are bigger than the air, and so you breathe Caught in a feeling circle Knowing measurements for what they are Your particles arrested Your museum […]
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“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliott
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – André Gide
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