When Jacob Barnett was two years old, doctors told his mother, Kristine, that her son had autism and he would probably never be able to talk, read, or even tie his shoes. Upon recommendations from Doctors and other experts, Kristine put him in a special preschool designed for kids with these kinds of challenges and special needs. Soon after, his Mom realized that the … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2019
If You Only Knew What I’ve Seen As A Paramedic
Melina Arrowood is a Certified Emergency Nurse who is married to a paramedic. She is also a gifted storyteller. Writing in the blog, Our Front Door, she takes readers into a haunting life and death world she shares with her husband as they each work on the front lines of emergency response and trauma care in Asheville, North Carolina. Here are some powerful excerpts from … [Read more...]
If Spiders Worked Together, They Could Eat All Humans In Just One Year
Arachnaphobes, close your eyes and ears. For everyone else, it's time to face the scary truth that spiders could eat all 7.2 billion of us in just one year. If they really, really wanted to. According to experts, if you add up the weight eaten by the world’s entire spider population in a single year, it is more than the combined weight of every human on the … [Read more...]
Amazon Tribe Creates 1,000-Page Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia
For far too long we have been following painful stories about how giant international business interests, especially the oil companies, have destroyed the ways of life of indigenous people and their ancestral lands. It is exciting—for a change—to share how one Amazon tribe has organized to preserve both the knowledge of their traditional system of medicine and the biological … [Read more...]
