Cartoon – Parent Teacher Meeting
Author: Antarctica Journal
New species in the Himalayas
A bright blue dwarf snakehead fish that can wriggle around on land for up to four days at a time and a snub-nosed monkey that sneezes when it rains: Those are just two of 211 new species found over the past five years in the Eastern Himalayas, the World Wildlife Federation reports. The region, which spans central Nepal, Myanmar, and […]
Read morePoem – Old Stag Giddy (By Donal Mahoney)
Old Stag Giddy Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower is a doe beckoning and he becomes giddy and heads for the salt lick happy in the breeze
Read moreBarbara Deming Quote – A Liberation Movement
“A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.” – Barbara Deming
Read moreHow elephants defy getting cancer
As the world’s largest land mammals, elephants should suffer one of the highest cancer rates—they simply have far more cells that could potentially mutate and become malignant. But new research reveals that elephants rarely get cancer—and the reason why may help in the search for human treatments. Only about 4.8 percent of elephants die from cancer, compared with up to […]
Read moreWilliam Hazlitt Quote – A Great Mind
“A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.” – William Hazlitt
Read moreMark Twain Quote – Always Do It Right
“Always do right. It will please some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain
Read moreG.K. Chesterton Quote – Love Affair
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” – G.K. Chesterton
Read moreKristin Armstrong Quote – Passage of Time
“It is the runner in me who will age gracefully. It is the runner in me who understands that the beauty of my body is in the things it can do, not the way it looks doing them. The runner in me understands that lines come from laughing on long runs and smiling into the sun. The runner in me […]
Read moreCartoon – Truth vs Sanity
