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There are a lot of good reasons to retire early from journalism. Traveling the country might be the best.
A NICE FOOD BLOG: For Love Of The Table
Lidka's cooking brought back memories of mamas pirozky at the big Milestone of my brother From another Mother ...
From a kitchen in Tato's Pilhov you could spy the ways trees dotted the landscape in a random pattern, save for the seven apple trees in the mid distance which, by happenstance, formed a circle.
Tree Identification Field Guide (this app has a small fee): “Our illustrated, step-by-step process makes it easy to identify a tree simply by the kinds of leaves it produces. Begin identifying your tree by choosing the appropriate region…”
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is about empowering people, not the rise of the machines World Economic Forum
Fear is a universal experience. Even the smallest insect feels it. We wade in the tidal pools and put our finger near the soft, open bodies of sea anemones and they close up. Everything spontaneously does that. It’s not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape. When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times
Years before Vladimir Nabokov proclaimed that “there is no science without fancy, and no art without facts,”marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964) arrived at the immensely fertile intersection of science and wonder, through which she would later catalyze the modern environmental movementwith her groundbreaking 1962 book Silent Spring.
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead. But the future is inherently uncertain - and the mist that shrouds our path an inherent part of our journey. The burning question is whether our societies can face up to
SO SINCE THE FORTIES THE GLACIER HAS GROWN, NOW IT’S RECEDED SOME… IT’S ALMOST LIKE THIS IS CYCLICAL OR SOMETHING: Bodies of couple missing since 1942 likely found in glacier.
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Community groups call for greater freedom to speak out
Australian governments must act now to safeguard and encourage vibrant debate on matters of public interest, 15 non-government organisations have said in a new report Defending Democracy, to be released today (05 July 2017). More...
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