Contributor spotlight: Geology Pics – Marli Miller

Marli Miller has been fascinated by geology since being an undergraduate at Colorado College in the early 1980’s – and has loved photography since high school. Marli maintained a love for photography all through grad school – and confesses she probably took much too long to complete her PhD (University of Washington, 1992) because of […]

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Fitness – the early years

‘If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.’ Hippocrates.  “Throughout history, the poor generally got all of the exercise they needed, and more, through hard physical graft, while the wealthier classes had their hunting, […]

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Amazing Religious Buildings

‘Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.’ Mario Botta (Architect) Architecture does not teach us what the sacred is, but it may touch it and draw others to it. Its responsibility to the sacred is, therefore, truly solemn. Architecture interprets holiness and offers it to the […]

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National Flags

Flags, known to have been in use as early as 1000 BCE on the Indian subcontinent and across China, were used to identify leaders, armies and other groups of the era.  The first national flags were adapted during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance periods, with many leaders of these periods adopting the flag of […]

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Unusual Transport

Getting from a to b is a simple type of equation. But what if getting from a to b is hindered by ‘x’ (type of terrain, geographic location, costs, etc)? Maybe ‘y’ has to be inserted into the equation to solve the problem. So, ‘y’ can be a solution based on cost, being resourceful, creative, […]

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