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"As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves." -Lewis Thomas

Farmers’ Almanac

No Joke—These 15 Weird and Scary Town Names Really Exist! - Farmers’ Almanac

North America is full of places with strange names. We've uncovered some towns whose names are absurd, creepy or just plain depressing!

Dallas News

Gunman kills 2 at White Settlement church before 2 members fatally shoot him

A gunman killed two people during a Sunday morning service at a church in White Settlement before members of the congregation fatally shot h

ABC 4

Hurricane pawnshop manager saves baby falling headfirst from counter

HURRICANE (ABC4 News) – Surveillance video from inside a Southern Utah pawnshop shows the moment a store employee saves a young child from w

Thrillist

The Weirdest Town Names In All 50 States

Next stop, Booger Hole!

going with a theme

For Shakespeare’s birthday & the last week of poetry month.

Sounds like... a spider tuning it's web to resonate with the sweet soul of the cactus.

what do they say about assuming?

Saturday night with science

http://www.loe.org

"We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.” ― Jonathan Sacks

Sounds like... the voice of Standing Bear and sea kelp trying to melt a heart of stone.