Tag: Place

In his 1989 book, sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term the ‘Third Place’ as the one outside home (your first place) and work/school (your second place) where people get through there day, but one that also becomes an opportunity to foster community and civility. Starbuc...

The lore and myths of the center of the Earth have been a topic of discussion in fiction, science, and beyond since time immemorial. Let us go back to 1692 AD. It was just 10 years after a mysterious unidentified comet flashed across the night sky. Astronomer Edmond Halley hasn’t yet identifie...

If both mountains are measured from sea level, Mount Everest is at roughly 9 kms high (about 29000 ft), whereas Mount Chimborazo is about 6.2 kms (about 20500 ft). However, Mount Chimborazo is closer to space because it is located on the equator in Ecuador. The map below shows where that is. The ...

There are few things we can conceive of that are as mind-bogglingly large as space is. Our observable Universe, out to the deepest recesses of space that we can possibly see, takes us out some 46 billion light-years in all directions. From the Big Bang until now, our Universe has expanded while grav...

The world is currently a rather gloomy place. I scrolled through the news last evening, and it felt like an unending barrage of negativity. Will there be an end to all of this? It’s hard to say; perhaps it’s an ongoing saga. It feels like a contemporary kind of hell — a hell ...

His body was found about 9:30 p.m., the reports said. He had a heart attack or stroke. We had talked about 8:30 p.m. Perhaps I was the last person he talked to. I told him he had influenced my career and my life, and he had. I worked in social justice organizations, and non-profits, for twenty ye...

We have been reading that Eighth is One of Dussthan of Your Horoscope. It is also one member of Trik house, it is also 2nd Moksha sthan of Your Horoscope. 8th house is house of secrecy, occult knowledge, longevity, transformation, death and re-birth, In laws family...