A great tribute to the true King Of Africa, the Elephant, by Angela Barter for the Amakhala Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Click the link below.
http://www.amakhala.co.za/blog/posts/worldelephantday
Image Credit: Amakhala
Clean, safe, unlimited energy? No problem, introducing the amazing ITER project
With the anniversary of the Moon landing last month, lets look at what else is possible when we apply the political will, social conscious and finances. Remember the ‘impossible dream’ of cold fusion….
As a species, humans have the unique ability to create and destroy on a global scale. At what point as a collective do we stop and focus on the good for all living things and not profit? Here follows some good news of us doing exactly that on a global scale. More please!
Why did the US drop the A-bomb if Japan was already offering surrender?
Stanford Professor Emeritus of History Barton Bernstein digs into the archival research on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, arguing that American leaders could probably have ended the war without resorting to using the A bomb—but that, at the time, ‘there were few moral restraints left in what had become virtually a total war.’
Via the brilliant weekly newsletter of Azeem Azhar, Exponential View
I’d also recommend watching Oliver Stone’s, Untold History of the United States. It’s asks some tough questions that I think all people should think about, but especially citizens of the US. It’s probably never more important, with the danger of the climate crisis and ongoing war around the world.