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Nefthalie Suglia, one of my co-workers returned today from an 8 day relief effort in Haiti. She’s a native from Haiti and works in The Devereux Foundation as a Residential Counselor. She wants to spread the word on what’s going on in Haiti and to raise awareness about the precarious conditions that its people are [...]

Chile’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook the whole continent and tilted Earth’s axis thus making our days shorter. Now it’s moving us.
The city of Concepcion (Chile’s second largest) moved at least 10 ft (3 m) to the West. Other parts of the continent such as Fortaleza (Brazil’s North-East) and the Falkland Islands. Buenos Aires (Argentina’s capital) moved 1 [...]

February 27th, 2010 – A massive earthquake has struck Chile early this morning. The epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake was near the city of Concepción, Chile’s second largest city. It was also felt in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and as far as Sao Paulo, Brasil. A tsunami alert was issued for the Pacific. The first waves [...]

NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour landed safely  in Florida on Sunday evening. The crew attached a new bus sized module to the International Space Station (ISS) and the largest observation deck ever launched into space.
The Cupola, a 1.5 meters (4.9 ft) Forged Aluminium structure  features 7 windows, the central one measuring 80 centimeters (31 in) wide. [...]

We all occupy roles in our lives. We are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters. We grow up performing these roles. You are born a son, you build relationships with peers, maybe you’ll have children to then become a grandfather or grandmother. And so, these roles get hard-wired into our minds. We learn how to [...]

In September of 2007 I travel to Peru’s popular Macchu Picchu. Although fascinating, the high note of my trip was far away from there; in Panama to be precise. No, the Canal wasn’t that transcendental place I found (went there too though). In a 365 archipelago I spent a week living among their inhabitants, the [...]

I just finished perusing these last couple of days’ news and I couldn’t decide wether to blog about Bill Clinton’s  heart surgery, the Georgian luger that lost his life in a training session (on the world’s fastest track) of Vancouver’s Winter Olympics or the blogosphere’s outrage at Googles’ new product, Buzz, due to its privacy issues. [...]

This are the places where I spend the most time when I’m not looking for anything specific, in no particular order.
 

Global Voices:  aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. That’s their tagline. It’s a great way to find news, some of them almost [...]

Thanks to ALT1040 if found Readability. If you spend a lot of time reading on the internet then this is something you must try. You just need to drag a bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar and that’s it; clutter and ad free reading. After configuring font style. size and text width you are good [...]

February 6, 2010, West Chester, PA 11:50 PM.
Looks like it’s not gonna stop snowing so I’m stranded here until the glaciers recede. Probably sometime during the day after tomorrow (pun intended).
According to Tom Moore, Lead Meteorologist of the Weather Channel this is a [rephrase] historic storm which will paralyze the Mid-Atlantic (us included). I’d post [...]


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