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Largest Cave in the World Discovered
In 1991, Vietnamese man Ho Khanh was wandering the wilderness of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park: He didn’t want to[…]
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I recently read how when the Twitter guys were first starting out many people told them, “That’ll never catch on.”[…]
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As you may have read earlier this month, I was asked to help a school in Tanzania, Africa raise money[…]
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Because they’ve been the vehicle for a lot of bad news and have become a symbol for government overreach, I’m[…]
Read more“The Greatest Food in Human History”
Don’t shoot the messenger here. I’m just relaying what others have said. Anyway, it makes for interesting discussion. The title[…]
Read moreTraveling, Teaching, and Helping a School in East Africa
I’m helping a school in Tanzania get computers for their students. I plan to travel there this winter and “take[…]
Read moreThe Best Use of Video I Have Ever Seen
I watched the latest installment of the “Up Series”. This English documentary follows the lives of 14 individuals starting from[…]
Read moreOldest Alive
I read in May about Jiroemon Kimura, a Japanese man born in 1897, making him 116 years of age and the oldest[…]
Read moreZimmerman Verdict Aftermath: revealed deviations of justice
This article isn’t about whether the verdict was just. It’s about the reactions following the verdict. Revealed in them were[…]
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