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Gyres Affect Sea Life, Climate
Scientists investigating ocean gyres - giant spinning eddies - are exposing the ways these rotating currents profoundly affect marine life and the planet's climate.
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Ocean Desert Areas are Growing
Global warming is linked to growth of low productivity ocean deserts that have reached 51 million square kilometers in size worldwide.
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Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming’
W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming" is one of the most misunderstood and overrated poems ever anthologized. It could have used at least one more revision.
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Plastic and the Food Chain
Plastic is man-made -- not easily broken down or reabsorbed by the environment. Clean-ups, consumer awareness, and alternative materials are needed.
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Famous Austrian Women Composers
While there are several women composers in our time, it was not so in previous centuries. Here are a few Austrian composers who deserve to be remembered for their works.
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Plastic Soup in the Pacific Ocean
Huge quantities of plastic are accumulating in the middle of the world's oceans, like they have in the North Pacific Central Gyre, creating toxic plastic soups of trash.
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An Interpretation of 'Jabberwocky' by Stephane Jorisch
The often-imitated "Jabberwocky" has fascinated readers for over a century. A new book illustrated by Stephane Jorisch revisits the classic Lewis Carroll poem with a decidedly contemporary twist.
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Marine Debris Threats to the Ocean
Greenpeace International has released a report detailing the risk plastic pollution and marine debris poses to the environment called Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans
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Review: Some Internet Fantasy Sites
This is a review of some Fantasy sites on the Internet.
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In Winter Light
Here's an experiment in a combination of prose and poetry, moving back and forth in time. It is based on a conversation I had with a high school teacher on the beauty of nature in winter.
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The Second Coming, by W.B. Yeats
Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" in 1920, while the world was at once recovering from the carnage of World War I and warily monitoring the rise of fascism and communism.
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Bright Angel Trail: Rim, River, Rim
Trucking down the Grand Canyon's Bright Angel Trail to the River (and back) in a day is a major undertaking...especially in the dead heat of summer...here's a recent trip report detailing the fun and hijinks my bunch of grizzled old Canyon vets experienced on this latest hike.... <i> (note: if you are offended by people mooning the camera, you might not want to click here)</i>
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Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’
Hailed as the most important nonsense poem in the English language, the poem, "Jabberwocky," serves to exemplify how language works and how it revitalizes itself.
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Mad About Grammar
Turn grammar review lessons into a spell-binding day or week of fun-filled activities that is anything but routine!
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Marlowe's Faustus
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
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Dean Koontz: Brother Odd, Ch 3
Final Chapter Preview: Chapter Three - Brother Thomas by Dean Koontz (your surprise from me, continued)
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Ellesmere Island
A little move away from Alaska for the time being. Something about and part of my own Country - Ellesmere Island.
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Nonsense Verse
Nonsense Verse entertains because it is silly yet it maintains an appearance of propriety.
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