Irving Berlin Quote – Life Is
“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” – Irving Berlin
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Predators key to helping prey evolve with climate change
The key to helping animals evolve quickly in response to climate change could actually be their predators, according to a new UBC study. The study is one of the first to show that species interactions, meaning the way species interact with each other in an ecosystem, like in a predator-prey relationship, is important to understanding how animals will respond to […]
Read moreMichael Meade Quote – Alive
African Proverb: “When death finds you, may it find you alive.” Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live. – Michael Meade
Read moreStephen Leacock Quote – Advertising
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” – Stephen Leacock
Read moreElizabeth Coatsworth Quote – When I Dream
When I dream, I am always ageless.” – Elizabeth Coatsworth
Read moreRalph Waldo Emerson Quote – The Wisest Know Nothing
“Sorrow makes us all children again—destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read moreBlame for warming heaped on humans
Simple statement: 13 of the 15 warmest years ever recorded have occurred within the first 15 years of this century. Complicated question: what is the probability that this happened purely by chance? The latest calculated answer: it could be one in 5000, or it could be as unlikely as one in 170,000, or it could be somewhere in between. Conclusion: […]
Read moreMadge Micheels-Cyrus Quote – Violence Never Works
“Nonviolence doesn’t always work — but violence never does.” – Madge Micheels-Cyrus
Read moreKeith Richards Quote – Use Two Feet
“If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.” – Keith Richards
Read morePoem – Room Of Silence (By Amy Hrynchuk)
Room Of Silence Nine in one little room, not making a sound. One working busily behind her desk. Two read books while one reads a magazine, while on writes in notebook. A leg shakes nervously across the room, while two rock beside him. Another two are drifting off to sleep. All wait to hear a name called by the […]
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