Sometimes you just need to get away...........

Photographer Travels World For a Year to Capture Night Sky Without Light Pollution

It's easy for urban dwellers to forget about the tens of millions of stars filling the night sky. With so few stars visible in the world's cities due to light pollution, we often find ourselves shocked on camping or overnight boating trips to see constellations and even galaxies in the black reaches overhead. Photographer Nick Risinger spent an entire year seeking out such places, traveling 60,000 miles to create a 37,440-picture portrait of .....

The Night Sky.

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"Police apologists like to say, “if only he had complied, he wouldn’t have been (insert torture, beating or murder of choice here)!” But the most appropriate way to view these interactions (if in fact we are free people) is the other way around – if the police had just minded their own damn business no one would have been hurt."

More on New World's oldest statues found in Peru

In 2005, Robert Benfer made “the find of a lifetime.” An MU professor emeritus of archaeology, Benfer was on an expedition 30 miles from Lima, Peru, six years ago when his team discovered two mud-plaster statues.

The Archaeology News Network

Myth of the Fox

" She asked him what he was doing so far from the highway, and he answered truthfully that he was looking for peyote."

Remember .............

I was walking down the street one day, In the merry, merry month of May.....

Took a pleasant little stroll in the mountains today.......

The US Government's War on Cameras

Who will watch the watchers? In a world of ubiquitous, hand-held digital cameras, that's not an abstract philosophical question. Police everywhere are cracking down on citizens using cameras to capture breaking news and law enforcement in action.

Reason.tv

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Some people call the city a ‘concrete jungle’ — but jungles aren’t like that. Animals in jungles aren’t overcrowded. And overcrowding is the central problem of modern city life. If you want to look for crowded animals, you have to look in the zoo. And then it occurred to me: The city is not a concrete jungle — it’s a human zoo.”

Desmond Morris

A.C.A.B.

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