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Winter Is Coming For Refugees
With the refugee crisis in Europe deepening, there are thousands of refugees across Europe that are currently homeless. Since this influx is a fairly recent phenomenon, the elements have yet to pose a problem. However, that could change soon; I recently came across...
Missiles Going Off Over Iran
As the world becomes more and more concerned about Russia’s intervention in Syria, two US military officials have said that four Russian cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea fell short of their Syrian targets and landed in rural Iran. These errant strikes...
What to Expect in the Upcoming GOP Debate
Ahead of the second presidential primary debate tomorrow, Republican rivals are fighting with each other to seize the spotlight from Donald Trump, who is looking to find new ways to keep the attention on himself. After rallying a huge crowd in Dallas, the billionaire...
The Digital Nomad
Many a Monday morning has been spent envisioning a secluded beach somewhere in Thailand, daydreaming about a lone table in a cafe in the cobbled streets of Paris or sipping a hot cup of tea on a crisp English morning. Inevitably, however, you’re greeted back to...
New York’s Lost Languages
Since the beginning of time, languages have been disappearing, fading into obscurity as time, war and various other factors make them obsolete. Often, people transition out of one language into another, either by choice or because they were forced to, which linguists...
Ebola Czar Named
In response to growing calls to appoint a “Czar” to lead America’s battle against Ebola, President Obama is planning to name Ron Klain, a longtime political hand who doesn’t seem to have any medical or health care background. However, Klain isn’t completely without...
Siberian-American Link Discovered
It’s well-known that the American Indians and Siberian tribes share common ancestors; the ancestors of the first American Indians arrived in the Americas some 20,000 to 15,000 years ago via a land bridge that collected Alaska and Siberia, and after the land bridge was...
Russian-Ukrainians Plead to Russia
I recently came across a blog post about an ad campaign that Russians living in Ukraine have launched, telling the Russian government that they don’t want (or need) to be saved. According to Putin, his intervention in Ukraine is to “protect” the country’s ethnic...