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7/12 Destination: Guilin, China
Living Near The Beach is Good For You
A new study conducted at the University of Exeter found that there were numerous health benefits to spending time near the ocean. When a person goes to the beach, ‘It’s not going to be any great surprise to you that people relax,’ said study researcher Michael White. The more complex question was how being near […]
Beautiful Music: Lisa Gerrard, Now we are free
Lisa Gerrard is from Australia. Her divinely, beautiful voice has been around for over 30 years. This is one of my favorite songs – it is featured in two of my favorite movies, Gladiator and Man on Fire.
15 powerful insights from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut is awesome. He was a true counter culture novelist. Via (inktank) There aren’t many writers who witnessed a 20th century apocalypse at first hand. But of those who have Kurt Vonnegut’s response, Slaughterhouse-Five, is arguably the most memorable. It was published in 1969, twenty-four years after Vonnegut, a 23 year-old American prisoner of war, […]