Cartoon – The Sleaze Factor
Author: Antarctica Journal
Poem – 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 moreRobert Green Ingersoll Quote – Tolerance
“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
Read moreCartoon – Corporate America Warms To The Burqa
Cartoon – How Locusts Are Incited To Swarm
When the oceans became acidic
Colossal volcanic eruptions some 250 million years ago have long been linked to the widespread global extinction known as the “Great Dying“, a 60,000-year period that saw 90 percent of all sea creatures and more than two-thirds of all plants and animals on land die off. But new research has for the first time identified the specific cause of the […]
Read moreCartoon – Nobody Likes To Take Their Work Home
Samuel Butler Quote – Enjoy Life
“All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” – Samuel Butler
Read moreHow 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 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 […]
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