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8 Mar 2010Nefthalie 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 [...]
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8 Mar 2010Chile’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 [...]
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24 Feb 2010NASA’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. [...]
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13 Feb 2010In 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 [...]
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13 Feb 2010I 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 [...]
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 [...]