Deep beneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet lies one of the most mysterious and least explored mountain ranges on Earth—the Gamburtsev Mountain Range. First discovered in 1958 by a Soviet expedition, these peaks, stretching about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) across East Antarctica, remain hidden under more than 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) of ice, making them a scientific enigma. A Subglacial Mountain […]
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“All our life…is but a mass of habits.” – William James
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THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS I remember now. Air so still you could hear it breathing through the frozen shrouds, the crack of floes caressing hulls as if ships could talk to each other. Men slept fully clothed, smoked, drank tea, cooked, read books from the library, and pretended that this was all normal. On holidays […]
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The Face of Death The doctor has seen the face of death on many occasions. He has seen scars and lacerations. His duty, his call the doctor has seen it all.
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“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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The FBI has files on roughly 77.7 million people in the U.S.—the equivalent of one in three American adults. As many as 12,000 new names are added to its master criminal database every day, largely as the result of minor arrests connected to “zero-tolerance” policies at schools.
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“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.” – Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.” – T.S. Eliot
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“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” ― Audrey Hepburn
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