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Cartoon – Pets have feelings too

November 14, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Humor

Mark Twain Quote – We Are All Stupid

November 14, 2024 Antarctica Journal

“We are all stupid, just on different subjects.” – Mark Twain

Cheap Food And Obesity

November 14, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Research has concluded the main cause of America’s obesity epidemic is that food has become too cheap and easy to get. The findings challenge conventional wisdom about obesity in the U.S., shifting the focus from sedentary lifestyles to the economics of eating. “It isn’t just the fact that we may be eating more high-calorie food, but we are eating more […]

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Elvia Alvarado Quote – I’ll Be There To Help You

November 11, 2024 Antarctica Journal

“I don’t think that God says, “Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine.” No. For me God says, “Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I’ll be there to help you.” – Elvia Alvarado

Craig Russell, Canadian Novelist Predicts Arctic Event

November 11, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Craig Russell Predicted Arctic Event Affecting Larsen C Ice Shelf

In 2016, a Canadian novelist, Craig Russell — who is also a lawyer and a theater director in Manitoba — wrote an environmental cli-fi thriller titled “Fragment” about a major calving event along the ice shelf of Antarctica. The Yale Climate Connections website recently recommended the novel, published by Thistledown Press as a good summer read. Ironically, scientists in Antarctica are […]

NASA Highlights Drought, Mars, Arctic Warming at Science Conference

November 11, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Long ago, in the largest canyon system in our solar system, vibrations from “marsquakes” shook soft sediments that had accumulated in Martian lakes. The shaken sediments formed features that now appear as a series of low hills apparent in a geological map based on NASA images. The map was released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This map of […]

Ray Bradbury Quote – How To Accept Rejection

November 11, 2024 Antarctica Journal

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” – Ray Bradbury

FISH MIGRATION

November 10, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Fish flee existing habitats in search of better ones. Atlantic sea bass, for example, are migrating north to cooler waters—but the heat will chase them there.