Mark Twain Quote – Courage
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear— not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
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Canada Unveils ‘Dinosaur Mummy’
While some miners were digging in Northern Alberta, Canada they came upon a skeleton of a perfectly preserved dinosaur from over 110 million years ago. This dragon-like armor plated dinosaur was suggested to have been over 3000 pounds was discovered about six years ago. Previously unknown dinosaur species was a plant eating dinosaur and probably ate its last leaf over […]
Read morePoem – THE ESTHETICS OF SELF (By Peter Taylor)
THE ESTHETICS OF SELF Against the horizon, you must always consider three skies: the one you see, the one you think about, and the one that’s really there. Our illusions falter on an edge we prefer to imagine, a definition beyond sight. But the eye has no horizon, the mind no extension beyond itself. […]
Read moreGiant flightless bird wandered the Arctic 50 million years ago
It’s official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse’s wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago. The confirmation comes from a new study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the University of Colorado Boulder that describes the first and […]
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Kalin Lucas Quote – First You Must Believe
“Before you can achieve, first you must believe.” – Kalin Lucas
Read morePoem – Bears Starving in the Woods (By Donal Mahoney)
Bears Starving in the Woods Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food. There’s a plan to feed them. But no plan yet to feed people in the city nearby waving signs about working for food.
Read moreElizabeth Gilbert Quote – Bored People
“The only boring people I know are bored people.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
Read moreChina’s Deadly Smoking Addiction
A study shows that the smoking addiction is growing in China and by the year 2050 it may be the cause of about 3 million deaths a year in China. This growing epidemic smoking addiction is the leading cause of premature death of half of the Chinese males. There are at this time about 300 million smokers and they are […]
Read moreDoes Wi-Fi damage sperm?
If you’re worried about infertility, don’t try to Google the term with a computer on your lap, says the London Telegraph. A new experiment suggests that radiation from a single Wi-Fi-enabled laptop may be strong enough to cause cell damage in sperm. Argentine researchers took samples of ejaculated semen and left them directly under a computer—simulating holding a laptop directly […]
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