Featured Member Blog Posts – February 2014 Archive (43)

Sinking Venice: At the Dying Beauty’s Bedside

Fairest among women, Venice, formerly powerful and rich. You are still impressive, Lady Venice, but only from a distance.

The years pass rapidly, your skin withers, becomes more parched and thin, and finally drops off in lumps of plaster. Meanwhile, just as time ages all women, water wears on you more and more with every year, and your…

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Added by Victor Tribunsky on February 3, 2014 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

Costa Rica an Important Refuge for Bats

Ectophylla alba bat, photo by Luis Navarro Bats are mammals with a bad reputation – their good name stained with images of blood and vampires by Hollywood. The truth is that bats are an important part of the environment, helping with pest control, spreading seeds and pollinating plants.

Of…

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Added by Danny Solano Alvarez on February 3, 2014 at 8:59am — No Comments

Hippies and Buddhists Share Woodstock, NY

 

 

On the path to enlightenment, I might wind up in Woodstock, New York.  The town which lent its name to the famous rock music festival, "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" in 1969 is home to old hippies, and surprisingly, an increasing number of Buddhists.

 

I meet Shiv…

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Added by Jim DeLillo on February 2, 2014 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

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