24 Jul
2013
OTHER POSTS
12/14 Destination: Zermatt, Switzerland
Zermatt is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton ofValais in Switzerland. It has a population of about 5,800 inhabitants. (Wiki)
Suicide Prevention: How to Help Someone who is Suicidal
In April 2011 one of my best friends, Owen Thomas, committed suicide. I miss him more than words can describe. Earlier this week I heard another case of a Penn athlete taking her life.
7/15 Art: Alex Grey
Avalokitesvara, Alex Grey, 1982-1983
This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing […]