WATER FOR PUERTO RICO (A Reaction to Puerto Rico’s Struggles) Dad always said, “No te ahogues en un vaso de agua.” “It means don’t drown in a glass of water,” I’d explain to my non-Spanish-speaking friends, wanting to share the magic because, for some reason, when he recited such words, I was able to hold my breath longer underwater, […]
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“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot
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“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.”
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Poem By SIMON PERCHIK * Though there’s no leak your hand at every turn makes the adjustment takes hold the way this wrench begins as mountainside, workable picked up and the pebble dragged off circles down, carving out her name and from your mouth the stutter tighter, tighter –it’s all about the water isn’t it? a spill […]
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When you travel to Antarctica you are in for a trip of a lifetime. Because of its location you are required to travel with a government scientific program or have a private expedition take you there. The over 50,000 tourists that travel there every year find the sightseeing and wildlife watching most adventurous. Unless you can sail your own boat, […]
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Astronomers have discovered the largest rocky planet yet, and its existence has profound implications for our understanding of the early universe and the potential for extraterrestrial life. Kepler-10c, which was spotted by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has a diameter of roughly 18,000 miles—more than twice that of Earth —prompting scientists to create a new class of planets, dubbed “mega-Earths.”The body’s […]
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Deep beneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet lies one of the most mysterious and least explored mountain ranges on Earth—the Gamburtsev Mountain Range. First discovered in 1958 by a Soviet expedition, these peaks, stretching about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) across East Antarctica, remain hidden under more than 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) of ice, making them a scientific enigma. A Subglacial Mountain […]
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