Charlie Chaplin Quote – To Truly Laugh
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.” – Charlie Chaplin
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Mysterious signal from deep space
Mysterious radio signals from space have been known to repeat, but for the first time, researchers have noticed a pattern in a series of bursts coming from a single source half a billion light-years from Earth. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. Individual radio bursts emit once and don’t repeat. But repeating fast […]
Read moreTeen Dies After Being Hit With Cheese
LONDON – A teenager who bullied another student in his class by throwing cheese at him claimed he had no idea that “allergies could be fatal” during an inquest into the 2017 death of a 13-year-old boy who suffered anaphylactic shock after being hit in the neck by a piece of cheese. Karanbir Singh Cheema, who went by Karan, had […]
Read morePoem – I Hardly Knew You (By Gary Beck)
I hardly Knew You We remember a lost President, assassinated, promises unfulfilled, who dazzled the nation with youthful vigor almost unAmerican glamour, and many reminisce of what could have been, forgetting the best and brightest sent abroad in the Peace Corps, instead of working at home to cure national ills, forgetting how close he came to incinerating the world, […]
Read moreWendell Berry Quote – See Your House Catch Fire
“Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.” – Wendell Berry
Read moreClimb high, Climb far
“Climb high, Climb far, Your goal, The sky, Your aim, The star.”
Read moreWatch Your Step in Naples
The almost-bankrupt Italian city of Naples began DNA-testing dog feces on its poop-covered sidewalks, so it can prosecute residents who don’t pick up. “I know some people find it funny that with all the problems the city has, we would focus on dog poop,” said an official.
Read moreWhen dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty
“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty.”
Read moreNeanderthals—the other white meat
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 […]
Read moreCartoon – I Call Shotgun
