Seeing Two Octopi at Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve
We got lucky! About 5 minutes into the first snorkeling sessions, I saw a little floating red sea creature hanging out at the edge of the reef, kind of circling a big reef rock.
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Sustainable Life: 5 Actions you can take NOW
Sustainable Life for Humans Humans are on a crash course with our destiny. If we don’t find a way to live sustainable life, our species could become extinct. Over the next five-hundred, the extinction of our species will looms above us, as it has in the past. Will we fall into the oblivion of our … Read more
Plitvice National Parks
I feel like I’ve visited heaven. Millions of waterfalls, lakes everywhere, water so clear you could drink it, fish the size of your leg and so many trees, bushes so thick that you can barely see the water flowing down and out of them, and a wooden stair path floating above it all like you … Read more
The Human Body is an Ecosystem (Part 3/5 : Oral Micro-Organisms)
Part 3: Micro-organisms in the Mouth Please see the other parts of the article; once they are completed the links will be active: Part 1: anatomy of the human microbiome Part 2: micro-organisms on the skin Part 4: micro-organisms in the gut Part 5: implications for modern medicine Your mouth harbors a diverse, abundant, and extremely complex … Read more
The Human Body is an Ecosystem (Part 2 of 5: Skin Micro-Organisms)
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Part 2: Micro-organisms on the Skin Please see the other parts of the article; once they are completed the links will be active: Part 1: anatomy of the human microbiome Part 3: micro-organisms in the mouth Part 4: micro-organisms in the gut Part 5: implications for modern medicine On your epidermis (skin), there is an … Read more
Overpopulation and its Potential Effects on Humanity
Overpopulation and Humanity’s Destiny If we don’t halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity- and will leave a ravaged world. -Nobel Laureate Dr. Henry W. Kendal By the year 2050, the Earth’s population is estimated to reach a staggering 9.6 billion people. … Read more
The Human Body is an Ecosystem (Part 1 of 5)
Part 1: Anatomy of the Human MicroBiome Please see the other sections of the article; once they are completed the links will be active: Part 2: micro-organisms on the skin Part 3: micro-organisms in the mouth Part 4: micro-organisms in the gut Part 5: implications for modern medicine Your ability to think of yourself as one … Read more