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Redrawing Borders

January 9, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Italy and Switzerland have agreed to redraw their border because global warming is melting the Alpine glaciers that mark their respective boundaries. The border had been fixed since 1861.

Facts & Trends

Neanderthals—the other white meat

January 7, 2024 Antarctica Journal

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 […]

Cartoon – I Call Shotgun

January 7, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Humor

Linda Hogan Quote – Petitions For Peace

January 6, 2024 Antarctica Journal

“Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams’s arms. The girl’s legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact […]

Peace
Quotes

Cartoon – Flight Fright

January 6, 2024 Antarctica Journal

Humor

Millennial Views

January 6, 2024 Antarctica Journal

The lower you go on the generational totem pole, the more ethnically diverse you get. Young adults between 18-24 (so-called Millennial) don’t like racial labels because they don’t recognize the dividing lines of the past—they are the vanguard of a “colorblind” culture. But their wildly . diverse life experiences have created an almost-random pattern of values and beliefs, including: • […]