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The Quickening Pace of Modern Life?
Ah, the good old days, when people used to talk to each other in public rather than looking at their phones or listening to headphones all the time. Except that’s not been the case for awhile as XKCD demonstrates with a series of quotes from various publications dating back to 1871. This is from William Smith’s Morley: […]
‘Batkid’ fighting cancer captures hearts, saves San Francisco
Via LA Times– San Francisco, grappling with the exploits of the Riddler and the Penguin, will call upon a pint-sized crusader: Miles, a 5-year-old cancer-stricken boy, a.k.a. Batkid. What started out as Miles’ wish to be Batman has turned into an all-out extravaganza in San Francisco as word spread and thousands of people volunteered to […]
Whales Almost Eat Divers
7/14 Quote: Ronald Reagan
“In our obsessions with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quietly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.” ~Ronald […]