Mary Beard is reclining at such a steep angle that her toes hang several feet above her head. Typing leisurely on her laptop, the Cambridge University historian is polishing off a paragraph of her next book on Ancient Rome. It’ll be one more to add to the hundreds of hefty volumes on classics that jostle… via …
Kangaroo Is On The Loose In Austria, Confusing Everybody — News : NPR
Maybe he's trying out for membership in the Royal Lipizzaner Stallions club 🙂 No, that's not a typo. Austria is hunting for a kangaroo of unknown origin that has been seen hopping about in the area of Hellmonsödt. via Kangaroo Is On The Loose In Austria, Confusing Everybody — News : NPR
They survived Pompeii’s explosion, but these historical treasures are now feared lost in Rio’s flames – National Post
via MSN.COM After a huge blaze engulfed the neglected, 200-year-old National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, it is feared that up to 90 per cent of its 20 million artefacts may have been destroyed. Among the priceless artifacts now lost may be Pompeii frescoes that escaped the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. On …
I Swear, I Am One Cocktail Away From Telling Everyone What I Really Think! — Through Open Lens
F/8.0, 1/250, ISO 160. Least Sandpiper A Sandwich walks into a bar.d The bartender says “Sorry, we don’t serve food here” Interesting Fact: Researchers studying Least Sandpipers discovered a new feeding mechanism. While probing damp mud with their bills, the sandpipers use the surface tension of the water to transport prey quickly from their bill …
Feel Good Sunday: Video – APACHE The Shadows — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
https://www.youtube.com/embed/XVXTedziKL0?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Source: Ine RP Braat “It’s Sunday, it’s your day, it’s time for you to relax and “get your horse on” so we hope that this shared video inspires you to continue your great works and efforts to be the voices for those who are voiceless. Be safe, my friends.” ~ R.T. via Feel Good Sunday: …
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Umpire’s chat with Kyrgios creates U.S. Open controversy
I saw and heard the exchange between Kyrgios and Chair Umpire Mohamed Lahyani, and I believe it was based on genuine concern on Lahyani's part to encourage Kyrgios to start playing to the elite level of which we all know Nick is capable. Lahyani was not coaching, and for the matter Kyrgios wouldn't listen even …
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BBC News: Endangered olive ridley sea turtles found dead off Mexico
Endangered olive ridley sea turtles found dead off Mexico - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45341575
Dinosaur ‘Missing Link’ Discovered
Dinosaur discovery is 'missing link' in 70-million-year evolutionary gap https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alvarezsaurian-dinosaur-discovery-1.4802026
The Story We Don’t Talk About: On Irishness, Immigration, and Race
By Maeve Higgins In January of 2014, a girl who had left from Cobh in Ireland (formerly known as Queenstown) journeyed across the Atlantic, and skipped rosy-cheeked off an airplane at John F. Kennedy Airport to start her new life. That was me, compensating for my indoor ghost face with too much blush in a …
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What does it mean to be human?
By Martha C. Nussbaum from The New York Times, The Big Ideas - Opinion Over time, the idea of “being human” has surely meant — and will continue to mean — many things. There is and has never been just one answer. But surely one thing it ought to involve today is the ability to …
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