Can You Really Stay Positive with an Unhappy Partner?
By Wendy L. Patrick Staying Positive While Loving an Unhappy Partner Counteracting the Emotional Contagion of Negativity Bias The dynamics of coupledom is a sum of both partner’s dispositions, demeanor, and personality. This is good news for couples who are like-minded or find their traits to be complementary, but potentially bad news for emotionally mismatched […]
Margrethe II of Denmark: Abdication of The World’s Longest Reigning Monarch
In a historic televised address on December 31, 2023, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark announced her abdication, marking the end of a remarkable era in Danish history. She has decided to formally step down on January 14, the same day she took up her reign in 1972, thereby bringing her 52 years on the throne […]
Standards are Key to Success, Enforce Them
By Laura Hollis Dr. Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University. A tepid nonresponse to congressional questioning about opposing antisemitism and calls for genocide of Jewish people on college campuses was enough to doom Liz Magill, former president of the University of Pennsylvania. But Dr. Gay survived that fray, only to be done […]
NASA Hubble Observes How an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere Changes (Video)
By combining several years of observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope along with conducting computer modelling, astronomers have found evidence for massive cyclones and other dynamic weather activity swirling on a hot, Jupiter-sized planet 880 light-years away. The planet, called WASP-121 b, is not habitable. But this result is an important early step in studying […]
The Versailles Palace
From the seat of power to a museum of the history of France Since 1979, the Palace of Versailles has been listed as a World Heritage and is one of the greatest achievements in French 17th century art. Louis XIII’s old hunting pavilion was transformed and extended by his son, Louis XIV, when he […]
The Little Gray Pony
The Little Gray Pony MAUD LINDSAY THERE was once a man who owned a little gray pony. Every morning, when the birds were singing, the man would jump on his pony and ride away, clippety, clippety, clap! The man rode to town and to country, to church and to market, up hill and down hill; […]
The Importance of Living (IV): Views of Mankind
By Lin Yutang Chapter Two Views Of Mankind 2. EARTH-BOUND The situation then is this: man wants to live, but he still must live upon this earth. All questions of living in heaven must be brushed aside. Let not the spirit take wings and soar to the abode of the gods and forget the earth. […]
Fountains in the Versailles Gardens
Water features of all kinds are an important part of French gardens, even more so than plant designs and groves. At Versailles, they include waterfalls in some of the groves, spurts of water in the fountains, and the calm surface of the water reflecting the sky and sun in the Water Parterre or the […]
The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat
The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat AN ENGLISH FOLK TALE Edited By Olive Beaupre Miller HE Little Red Hen was in the farmyard with her chicks looking for something to eat. She found some grains of wheat and she said: ‘Cut, cut, cut, cudawcut! These grains of wheat I’ll sow; The […]
The Importance of Living (III): Views of Mankind
By Lin Yutang Chapter Two Views Of Mankind Christian, Greek and Chinese THERE are several views of mankind, the traditional Christian theological view, the Greek pagan view, and the Chinese Taoist- Confucianist view. (I do not include the Buddhist view because it is too sad.) Deeper down in their allegorical sense, these views after […]