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In Pictures: Tanzania’s Traditional Healers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22263057 “Many people in Tanzania – and across Africa – consult traditional healers for everything from curing illness to good-luck charms. Government regulations and Western medicine may have changed some of their activities, but from herbalists to diviners, they have adapted and remain important figures.”
Where we are: Quito, Ecuador
Our hostel has awesome views of the city from a top floor lobby/balcony.
7/30 Art: James Turrell
Stone Sky Infinity Pool, James Turrell, Napa Valley, 2007
‘Hand of God’ Spotted by NASA Space Telescope
The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor’s office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA’s NuSTAR spacecraft has imaged the structure in high-energy X-rays for the first time, shown in blue. Lower-energy X-ray light previously detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in […]