Click Here to Read: Tablet’s Top Ten Stories of 2020 on the Tablet website on January 3, 2021.
Circular route shield Image: Fredddie Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
This Artwork Changed My Life
The most distant galaxy is upending our model of the universe’s history
Click Here to Read: The most distant galaxy is upending our model of the universe’s history: A new study confirms GN-z11 is the oldest and most distant galaxy humans have ever sighted By Nicole Karlis on the Salon website on December 27, 2020.
Distant galaxy GN-z11 in GOODS-N image by HST.jpg Image: NASA ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
A ‘Category 5’ mental health crisis is coming
POETRY MONDAY: JANUARY 4, 2021
Merle Molofsky
Good morning, everyone. Here in the Northeastern U.S., we’re buried in snow, which is not atypical for this time of year in this region. But it’s okay to experience something that is not atypical, in a year that has been anything but.
Although, worldwide, we’ve had some good news about vaccines and even a bit about our democracies, many of us are still in mourning and those that aren’t, still worried.
But, as always, we look to poetry to heal our souls and to help us try to mend the broken world. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: JANUARY 4, 2021
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Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest
Click Here to Read: Why Birds Can Fly Over Mount Everest: A story for my granddaughter about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate.
by Walter Murch on the Nautilus website on December 30, 2020.
Two Snow Geese flying at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. Image: Manjith Kainickara Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons