Aristotle Quote – No Education At All
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle
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Human remains found in 2,100-year-old shipwreck
According to researchers the human remains found on an ancient shipwreck from 2100 years ago will shed some light on the past that was thought to be lost. The researchers found human remains off the Greek Island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea and have been studying them at a site in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Because of the deaths they are […]
Read moreLive Off Of What Life Gives You
“Live off of what life gives you, and not from what it takes away.”
Read moreCartoon – Beached
Quote – It Smelled Like A Camel
Five blind men met a camel. Each one touched a different part of the animal. Afterward all of them recognized it as a camel. “How did you know?” someone asked. “It smelled like a camel,” said the five blind men.
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Guatemala: A nation in the grip of depression
Guatemalans are suffering from “an epidemic of chronic pessimism,” said Jose J. Camacho. We all seem to agree that “everything is bad, nothing is certain, everyone has a price, and something evil lurks behind every good deed.” The media fuel these perceptions by covering every new incidence of violence exhaustively, lavishing special attention on the most frightening and lurid details […]
Read morePoem – Elephant Grief
We are all creatures of this great earth — interconnected in ways beyond understanding. Take elephants. So big. So strong. And yet, when a member of the herd passes, even elephants mourn. They gather around, extend their trunks, and gently touch the tusks of their fallen friend. It’s their ritual. It’s how they heal. And it’s sad. And it’s beautiful. […]
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 moreCartoon – Moving Forward
