Franklin Roosevelt Quote – The Ability To Face Facts
“We need enthusiasm, imagination, and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely.” – Franklin Roosevelt
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Chuck McCarthy – The People Walker of LA
If you want to go for a walk but don’t want to go alone, you can call Chuck McCarthy and he will come walk with you for $7 a mile. While you are walking you have someone to talk to that will listen and you don’t need a leash. Since he is an underemployed actor, he thought “what can I […]
Read moreStephen Hawking: ‘There are no black holes’
Stephen Hawking: ‘There are no black holes‘ – Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has declared that black holes do not exist – at least not in the way we normally think about them. In a new paper, he tackles a scientific paradox regarding a black hole’s event horizon. This is the threshold past which nothing can escape it’s gravitational pull. Under […]
Read moreCartoon – The Devil Made Me Do It
When the Red Planet was partly blue
Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars had a massive ocean for millions of years— an indication that the Red Planet once had everything necessary to support life. Shortly after Mars formed 4.5 billion years ago, NASA scientists say, the planet was wet, with enough water to cover the entire planet to a depth of about 450 […]
Read moreJohn Maynard Keynes Quote – Start From An Extreme Position
“When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.” – John Maynard Keynes
Read moreAcupuncture’s Real Benefits
To the surprise of doctors, new research on acupuncture has found that the ancient Chinese healing technique provides real pain relief. Acupuncture involves sticking needles into specific points in the body that Chinese healers believe contain unseen energy pathways; the needles supposedly stimulate the flow of “qi,” or energy. Western medicine has viewed these claims with deep skepticism, contending that […]
Read moreTom Sachs Quote – You Will Always Feel Poor
“If you worship money, you will always feel poor.” – Tom Sachs
Read moreSoren Kierkegaard Quote – Until God Is Heard
“As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent…. This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.” – Soren Kierkegaard
Read moreNeanderthals—the other white meat
Neanderthals, a sturdy hominid species closely related to Homo sapiens, lived in Europe for about 270,000 years until humans arrived on the continent, about 30,000 years ago, at which point they quickly disappeared. The latest theory for their puzzling extinction is that humans exterminated, and maybe even ate, their Neanderthal cousins. French anthropologist Fernando that the bacterial disease was present […]
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