Samuel Butler Quote – Enjoy Life
“All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” – Samuel Butler
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How to Talk to Climate Change Skeptics
10 myths about global warming, and what the science really says. THE REASONS FOR raising doubts about the human causes of global warming, explains Skeptical Sciences John Cook, are often political rather than scientific. Cook hears from climate change skeptics that ‘“its all a liberal plot to spread socialism and destroy capitalism. However, what is causing global warming is a […]
Read moreEpictetus Quote – Eat As Becomes You
“Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.” – Epictetus
Read moreLive Off Of What Life Gives You
“Live off of what life gives you, and not from what it takes away.”
Read moreGhana: Why are the Chinese miners here?
Ghana has sold its soul to China, said Alex Bossman Baafi. Small-scale gold-mining permits are reserved by law for native-born Ghanaians only. Yet Chinese immigrants are operating illegal gold mines all over the country, with expensive machinery and guards armed with illegal guns. These miners hurt the environment by razing our forests and dumping toxic mining by-products like cyanide into […]
Read moreHaim Ginott Quote – Parents Talk To The Heart
“The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately, they talk to the heart.” – Haim Ginott
Read moreWill We See the Sun’s Final Light Show?
When we see a magical light show from the sun it is called “stretched loops” that are visible when the sun is rotated showing its profile to the earth. These lights move along a magnetic line that shows us these yellow lights that are charged particles of ultraviolet light. In about 5 billion years the sun will shine its last […]
Read moreUs vs. Them
Percentage of Americans and Chinese, respectively, who believe their government is “on the side of average citizens”: 12, 80 Who believe their government is “on the side of corporations”: 73, 17
Read morePoem – PENULTIMATE (By John Stanizzi)
PENULTIMATE for David Ferry (July, 21, 2015) At 91, David tells me that he is nearly finished with his Aeneid translation and that he has started his next book which he has tentatively called Underworld, and he is already three poems in, and when the Aeneid goes to press he’ll focus more on this newest book, but not […]
Read moreMark Twain Quote – Action Speaks Louder Than Words
“Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often.” – Mark Twain
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