Hippocrates Quote – Food and Medicine
“Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.” – Hippocrates
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Poem – At a Party (By Robert Ronnow)
At a Party I spoke with two people at the party Saturday. A young police officer, short-haired, fit, chiseled face who had two young children. He felt constrained by the law, without discretion to question mopes (perps) aggressively or to let go those who were obviously no threat. Even at a family function he seemed straight-backed, correct, devoted to his […]
Read moreAbraham Lincoln Quote – Resolution to Succeed
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important then any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
Read moreMark Twain Quote – We Are All Stupid
“We are all stupid, just on different subjects.” – Mark Twain
Read moreElvia Alvarado Quote – I’ll Be There To Help You
“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
Read moreCraig Russell, Canadian Novelist Predicts Arctic Event
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 […]
Read moreNASA Highlights Drought, Mars, Arctic Warming at Science Conference
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 […]
Read moreFISH MIGRATION
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.
Read moreMarshall McLuhan Quote – There Are No Passengers On Spaceship Earth
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” – Marshall McLuhan
Read moreSomething Fishy Going On
A Chinese fishmonger found a 3-pound live bomb inside a squid he was cutting up. Police took the squid away and blew it up in a controlled explosion.
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