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With its ancient ruins, glittering mosques and spectacular landscapes, Iran is home to some of the world's cultural treasures, but eve...

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During my blogcation I had time to finish this enjoyable book .  You have to be patient at the beginning because there are lots of charac...

YouTube link . "You're a good person."

Some of you have noticed a decline in productivity re the blog recently, a result of the convergence of a variety of factors, including s...

Real Life Adventures is available online.  Here are two more samples: Enjoy.

From a fascinating column at Salon : At a time when most Americans were uninformed, misinformed, or simply afraid of Islam, Thomas Jeffer...

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Photo of a divi tree in Aruba's Arikok National Park.  My mind immediately anthropomorphizes it to a woman with long hair. Photo cr...

Many of you have heard that hackers (or some government entity) has broken into Adobe's computer systems and stolen information affectin...

  Miranda would have been as awed by this little creature as I am.  It's real.  It's a newly-discovered species of planhopper: ...

John Farrier posted at Neatorama the above photo (credit: Peter Rivera ) of Watkins Glen State Park in upstate New York, noting that ...

YouTube link . Filmed in South Yorkshire.  The YouTube comments plumb the depths of ignorance; it's too bad such people can't s...

YouTube link . Bloemencorso Zundert is the largest flower parade in the world entirely made by volunteers. The parade takes place on t...