Cartoon – Coddled Cavemen
Author: Antarctica Journal
St. Catherine of Sienna Quote – Good and Bad Luck
“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.” – St. Catherine of Siena
Read moreTHE GLOBAL SPACE RACE
The European Space Agency’s incoming director general, Jan Worner, wants to build a village on the moon. Other nations have similarly out-of-this-world ambitions: Japan Launched a probe to mine an asteroid in 2018 China Plans to build a huge solar-power station in space Russia Hopes to send probes to Jupiter, Mars and Venus India Is exploring sending a rocket to […]
Read moreLogan Smith Quote – Success
“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?” – Logan Smith
Read moreJohn Ruskin quote on Humility
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility, an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.” – John Ruskin
Read moreCartoon – Too Busy To Meditate?
Rich America
The 400 richest Americans have as much wealth as all 41 million African Americans.
Read moreClimate Research Expedition to Antarctica via Airbnb
If you are interested in a research expedition to Antarctica then Airbnb is looking for you. It will be an all expenses paid trip for five lucky travelers. You will get to work with some researchers to study the climate on this freezing continent. The trip will be with Ocean Conservancy with Kirstie Jones-Williams. Kirstie studies the impact of microplastics […]
Read moreToo Much Brawn, Not Enough Brains
A gang of German bank robbers trying to blow open an ATM machine used too much explosive and destroyed the entire bank. The blast reduced the bank building in the village of Malliss to rubble and damaged cars more than 100 yards away, yet the targeted ATM machine was left completely intact. “Something evidently didn’t work the way the robbers […]
Read morePoem – Opinion (By Robert Beveridge)
Opinion The majority writes the opinion. When the box scores are posted the team is found to have won despite an unacceptable number of errors. There are, however, no disqualifications.
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