Underwater Ballet In the wistful – drowning; All dreamers hold their breath; Floating balloon Rests full in blister world before the land. Slippery between skin and scales, Drawn throbbing from the gilled; Great tuna from crustaceans postulated, Anemones new-boned; Parallel concert writhe Curls double joints. Flippers of androgyny Erected supple Thighs hoisted angular Lungs ultra-blown; Last […]
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“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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In a new study on screen time and mind and body development shows that it may have serious health consequences. It covered the connectivity in the brain between spending time in front of a screen or actual reading. They showed that the brain had better connectivity to language and cognitive control when the children read actual books more, over the […]
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“Every revolutionary idea evokes three stages of reaction: 1) It’s completely impossible 2) It’s possible but it’s not worth doing 3) I said it was a good idea all along.” – Arthur C. Clarke
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“Dear young people. Make your generous and responsible contribution to the constant building up of the Church as a family, a place of dialogue and mutual acceptance, a space of peace, mercy and pardon.” – Pope Francis
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With temperatures in excess of 800 F, Mercury is one of the last places in the solar system you’d expect to find ice. But when NASA’s Messenger spacecraft transmitted its first optical images of the closest planets to the sun, that’s exactly what scientists discovered. Mercury sits about 36 million miles from the sun, which is roughly 57 million miles […]
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“The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.” – Quentin Crisp
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